Learning from the Past: The Women Writers Project and Thirty Years of Humanities Text Encoding

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S. Connell, Julia Flanders, N. Keller, Elizabeth Polcha, W. Quinn
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In recent years, intensified attention in the humanities has been paid to data: to data modeling, data visualization, “big data”. The Women Writers Project has dedicated significant effort over the past thirty years to creating what Christoph Schoch calls “smart clean data”: a moderate-sized collection of early modern women’s writing, carefully transcribed and corrected, with detailed digital text encoding that has evolved in response to research and changing standards for text representation. But that data—whether considered as a publication through Women Writers Online, or as a proof of the viability of text encoding approaches like those expressed in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guideline s—is only the most visible part of a much larger ecology. That ecology includes complex human systems, evolving sets of tools, and a massive apparatus of documentation and organizational memory that have made it possible for the project to work coherently over such a long period of time. In this article we examine the WWP’s information systems in relation to the project’s larger scholarly goals, with the aim of showing where they may generalize to the needs of other projects.
向过去学习:女性作家计划与人文文本编码三十年
近年来,人文学科对数据的关注越来越多:数据建模、数据可视化、“大数据”。女作家项目在过去的三十年里付出了巨大的努力,创造了克里斯托夫·肖克(Christoph Schoch)所说的“智能干净的数据”:一个中等规模的早期现代女性写作的集合,经过仔细的转录和校正,并带有详细的数字文本编码,这些编码是根据研究和不断变化的文本表示标准而演变的。但是这些数据——无论是作为在线女性作家的出版物,还是作为文本编码方法可行性的证明,就像文本编码倡议(TEI)指南s中所表达的那样——只是更大生态中最明显的一部分。这种生态包括复杂的人类系统,不断发展的工具集,以及大量的文档和组织记忆设备,这些设备使项目能够在如此长的时间内连贯地工作。在本文中,我们将根据项目更大的学术目标来研究WWP的信息系统,目的是展示它们在哪些方面可以推广到其他项目的需求。
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Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals
Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES-
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期刊介绍: Its coverage is threefold: (1) Cultural subjects for the Romance area, in the medieval and post-medieval era (up to 1600). (2) Literature, linguistics and cultural issues in general, concerning the Crown of Aragon and Occitania (and other related areas such as Naples and Navarre). (3) Digital humanities or otherwise methodological studies, provided that they may be of service to the medievalist. This annual publication has been created with the intention of serving as a platform for works that exceed the conventional length of journal articles. Therefore Magnificat CLM will preferably publish long articles, but articles of medium length are not excluded. Magnificat CLM is aimed at an audience of researchers and specialists in medieval studies, especially Romance philology, as well as of specialists in digital humanities. Magnificat CLM consists of a single section of articles, occasionally including a monographic dossier on particular subjects. All articles are indexed. Magnificat CLM published its first volume in 2014.
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