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James Rieger, ed., first new edition of 1818 in 141
years : inline collation of "Thomas" w/ 1818,
1831 variants in endnotes
Legend:
Stuart Curran and Jack Lynch: PA Electronic Edition (PAEE) , collation of 1818 and 1831: HTML
Nora Crook crit. ed of 1818, variants of "Thomas", 1823, and 1831 in endnotes (P&C MWS collected works)
Romantic Circles TEI conversion of PAEE ; separates the texts of 1818 and 1831; collation via Juxta
1974
~mid-1990s
1996
Charles Robinson, The Frankenstein Notebooks (Garland): print facsimile of 1816 ms drafts
2007
Shelley-Godwin Archive publishes diplomatic edition of 1816 ms drafts
print edition
digital edition
Legend:
2013
2017
Frankenstein Variorum Project :
assembly/proof-correcting of PAEE files; OCR/proof-correcting 1823; "bridge" TEI edition of S-GA notebook files; automated collation; incorporating "Thomas" copy text
Darwin Online (ed. Barbara Bordalejo): Inspiration for Frankenstein Variorum reading interface, with these added challenges:
algorithm for computer-aided collation, developed in 2009 workshop of collateX and Juxta developers.
Tokenization :
Break down the smallest unit of comparison: (words--with punctuation, or character-by-character): FV tokenizes words and includes punctuation
Normalization
('&' = 'and')
Alignment
Identify comparable divergence: what makes text sequences comparable units?
“Chunking” text into comparable passages (chapters/paragraphs that line up with identifiable start and end points). Collation proceeds chunk by chunk.
Analysis
(study output, correct, and re-align after machine process, AND refine automated processing)
Visualization
critical edition apparatus, graph displays
C-07
C-01
C-33
C-18(frag)
C-20
C-24
C-29
C-33
How the Bodleian Library Frankenstein ms notebooks align as collation units to the full novel as published in 1818
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2. Comparing five versions of Frankenstein: the "panpipe" view
Legend
MS
1818
Thm
1823
1831
This synoptic view shows alignments, gaps, and comparative lengths of all collation units. The two areas in columns one and three marked with ovals highlight where the manuscript notebook witness is missing or fragmented.
Chapter heading or other structural boundary. On the web version, the visitor mouses over a black square to view a 250-character selection of text at this point.
3. The Variorum Viewer and Its Options for Display
The visitor chooses an edition to read and a section aligned with the other editions, in this case the 1818 in section 10. Sections are usually chapter boundaries.
Variant passages are highlighted based on a three-part scale of intensity defined by maximum edit distance of any version from the others at this point. The darker the shade, the greater the divergence from at least one of the other editions. The colored dot beneath a passage indicates which edition(s) hold a variant at this location, following the legend provided above.
The presence of a number with a manicule indicates here that two contextual annotations are available (as shown below). These annotations were written by a team of scholars to offer commentary on content in this paragraph.
Selecting a variant passage opens a panel to show how all the editions read at this point. Contextual annotations (signalled by the manicule) would open in the same space as this variant display panel, so the two are not currently displayed together. The visitor may choose which to view.
Selecting a manicule symbol reveals a contextual annotation on a passage. Such annotations often highlight an especially significant revision that affects our view of the characters, as with the one highlighted here.
4. Viewing a contextual annotation
”Heatmap” view, showing variation intensity as blocks with circles color-coded by edition. Selecting a circle on the heatmap view displays the edition and its variants.
A heavily revised passage, showing the MS notebook view