NASSR 2024 Reinvention & Responsibility, Washington, DC
17 August 2024, 10:15 - 11:45am, Georgetown U.: Reiss 262
Link to these slides: https://bit.ly/fv-nav
Elisa Beshero-Bondar | Raffaele Viglianti | Yuying Jin |
@ebeshero | @raffazizzi | @yuying-jin |
Most immediate context: Darwin Online (ed. Barbara Bordalejo), except...
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 begins
assembly/proof-correcting of PAEE files; OCR/proof-correcting 1823; "bridge" TEI edition of S-GA notebook files; automated collation; incorporating "Thomas" copy text. Collation project completed in 2023, Variorum viewer officially launches in 2024.
<add>
, <del>
, <note>
elements showing Thomas marginaliasample surface encoding from S-GA
<surface xmlns:mith="http://mith.umd.edu/sc/ns1#" lrx="3847" lry="5342"
partOf="#ox-frankenstein_volume_i" ulx="0" uly="0"
mith:folio="21r" mith:shelfmark="MS. Abinger c. 56"
xml:base="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/
umd-mith/sga/master/data/tei/ox/ox-ms_abinger_c56/ox-ms_abinger_c56-0045.xml"
xml:id="ox-ms_abinger_c56-0045">
<graphic url="http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/images/ox/ms_abinger_c56/ms_abinger_c56-0045.jp2"/>
<zone rend="bordered" type="pagination"><line>75</line></zone>
<zone type="library"><line>21</line></zone>
<!-- lines of text elided here -->
<line>to form. His limbs were in proportion</line>
<line>and I had selected his features <del rend="strikethrough">h</del> as</line>
<line><mod>
<del rend="strikethrough">handsome</del>
<del rend="unmarked">.</del>
<anchor xml:id="c56-0045.01"/>
</mod>
<mod>
<del rend="strikethrough">Handsome</del>
<add hand="#pbs" place="superlinear">Beautiful</add>
</mod>; Great God! His</line>
<!-- at the end of the surface encoding, encoding material in a left-margin zone: --->
<zone corresp="#c56-0045.01" type="left_margin">
<line><add><mod>
<del rend="strikethrough">handsome</del>
<add hand="#pbs" place="superlinear">beautiful.</add>
</mod></add></line>
</zone>
<!-- other marginal insertions encoded -->
</surface>
<surface lrx="3847" lry="5342"
partOf="#ox-frankenstein_volume_i"
ulx="0" uly="0" folio="21r" shelfmark="MS. Abinger c. 56" base="ox-ms_abinger_c56/ox-ms_abinger_c56-0045.xml"
id="ox-ms_abinger_c56-0045" sID="ox-ms_abinger_c56-0045"/>
<graphic url="http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/images/ox/ms_abinger_c56/ms_abinger_c56-0045.jp2"/>
<zone type="main" sID="c56-0045__main"/>
<lb n="c56-0045__main__17"/>
<del rend="strikethrough" sID="c56-0045__main__d2e9811"/>But how<del eID="c56-0045__main__d2e9811"/> How can I describe
my <lb n="c56-0045__main__18"/> emotion at this catastrophe; or how
<w ana="start"/>deli<lb n="c56-0045__main__19"/>neate<w ana="end"/>
the wretch whom with such <lb n="c56-0045__main__20"/> infinite pains and care I had endeavoured <lb n="c56-0045__main__21"/> to form. His limbs were in proportion <lb n="c56-0045__main__22"/> and I had selected his features <del rend="strikethrough" sID="c56-0045__main__d2e9830"/>h<del eID="c56-0045__main__d2e9830"/> as <lb n="c56-0045__main__23"/>
<mod sID="c56-0045__main__d2e9835"/>
<del rend="strikethrough" sID="c56-0045__main__d2e9837"/>handsome<del eID="c56-0045__main__d2e9837"/>
<mdel>.</mdel>
<anchor xml:id="c56-0045.01"/>
<zone corresp="#c56-0045.01" type="left_margin" sID="c56-0045__left_margin"/>
<lb n="c56-0045__left_margin__1"/>
<add sID="c56-0045__left_margin__d2e9849"/>
<mod sID="c56-0045__left_margin__d2e9851"/>
<del rend="strikethrough" sID="c56-0045__left_margin__d2e9853"/>handsome<del eID="c56-0045__left_margin__d2e9853"/>
<add hand="#pbs" place="superlinear" sID="c56-0045__left_margin__d2e9856"/>beautiful.<add eID="c56-0045__left_margin__d2e9856"/>
<mod eID="c56-0045__left_margin__d2e9851"/>
<add eID="c56-0045__left_margin__d2e9849"/>
<zone eID="c56-0045__left_margin"/>
<mod eID="c56-0045__main__d2e9835"/>
<mod sID="c56-0045__main__d2e9863"/>
<del rend="strikethrough" sID="c56-0045__main__d2e9865"/>Handsome<del eID="c56-0045__main__d2e9865"/>
<add hand="#pbs" place="superlinear" sID="c56-0045__main__d2e9868"/>Beautiful<add eID="c56-0045__main__d2e9868"/>
<mod eID="c56-0045__main__d2e9863"/>; Great God! His <lb n="c56-0045__main__24"/>
Align and “chunk”
Legend
MS
1818
Thm
1823
1831
gaps, alignments, relative string-length for each ”chunk”
Prescribe rules to direct the machine-assisted collation
<p>
"&"
is not different from "and"
MS (from Shelley-Godwin Archive):
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld
<del>the frame on whic</del> my man
comple<del>at</del>teed
1818 (from PA Electronic edition)
<p>IT was on a dreary
night of November, that I beheld
the accomplishment of my toils.</p>
Manuscript (from Shelley-Godwin Archive):
<lb n="c56-0045__main__2"/>It was on a dreary night of November
<lb n="c56-0045__main__3"/>that I beheld <del rend="strikethrough"
xml:id="c56-0045__main__d5e9572">
<add hand="#pbs" place="superlinear" xml:id="c56-0045__main__d5e9574">the frame on
whic</add></del> my man comple<del>at</del>
<add place="intralinear" xml:id="c56-0045__main__d5e9582">te</add>
<add xml:id="c56-0045__main__d5e9585">ed</add>
1818 (from PA Electronic edition)
<p xml:id="novel1_letter4_chapter4_div4_div4_p1">I<hi>T</hi> was on a dreary
night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.</p>
<del>
and <p>
markup<lb/>
elements, attribute nodes<hi>
elements as meaningful markup because sometimes they are meaningful for emphasis.MS (from Shelley-Godwin Archive):
["It", "was", "on", "a", "dreary",
"night", "of". "November", "that",
"I", "beheld"
"<del>the frame on whic</del>",
"my", "man",
"comple", "<del>at</del>", "teed"]
1818 (from PA Electronic edition)
["<p>", "IT", "was", "on", "a", "dreary",
"night", "of", "November,", "that", "I", "beheld",
"the", "accomplishment", "of", "my", "toils.", "</p>"]
Project decision: Treat a deletion as a complete and indivisible event:
a ”long token”. This helps to align other witnesses around it.
(Embedded markup is a little more complicated than our previous example)
<app>
<rdgGrp n="['that', 'i', 'beheld']">
<rdg wit="f1818">that I beheld</rdg>
<rdg wit="f1823">that I beheld</rdg>
<rdg wit="fThomas">that I beheld</rdg>
<rdg wit="f1831">that I beheld</rdg>
<rdg wit="fMS"><lb n="c56-0045__main__3"/>that I beheld</rdg>
</rdgGrp>
</app>
<app>
<rdgGrp n="['<del> the frame on whic</del>',
'my', 'man', 'comple',
'', '<mdel>at</mdel>', 'te', 'ed',
',', '.', '<del>and</del>']">
<rdg wit="fMS"><del rend="strikethrough"
xml:id="c56-0045__main__d5e9572">
<sga-add hand="#pbs" place="superlinear"
sID="c56-0045__main__d5e9574"/>the
frame on whic <sga-add eID="c56-0045__main__d5e9574"/> </del> my man
comple <mod sID="c56-0045__main__d5e9578"/>
<mdel>at</mdel>
<sga-add place="intralinear" sID="c56-0045__main__d5e9582"/>te
<sga-add eID="c56-0045__main__d5e9582"/>
<sga-add sID="c56-0045__main__d5e9585"/>ed
<sga-add eID="c56-0045__main__d5e9585"/>
<mod eID="c56-0045__main__d5e9578"/>
<sga-add hand="#pbs" place="intralinear"sID="c56-0045__main__d5e9588"/>,
<sga-add eID="c56-0045__main__d5e9588"/>.
<del rend="strikethrough"
xml:id="c56-0045__main__d5e9591">And</del></rdg>
</rdgGrp>
<rdgGrp n="['the', 'accomplishment', 'of', 'my', 'toils.']">
<rdg wit="f1818">the accomplishment of my toils.</rdg>
<rdg wit="f1823">the accomplishment of my toils.</rdg>
<rdg wit="fThomas">the accomplishment of my toils.</rdg>
<rdg wit="f1831">the accomplishment of my toils.</rdg>
</rdgGrp>
</app>
Background image created by the author from a loom on Reddit and the frontispiece illustration of Frankenstein (1831)
A Thomas copy edit of Letter IV at an early moment of intense revision
where the Creature comes to life in MS and Thomas
A Thomas copy edit not taken up later
Where the MS notebooks begin, just after "Everyone adored Elizabeth. . ."
An (in)famous enormous overhaul for 1831
"I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend..." https://frankensteinvariorum.org/viewer/1831/chapter_xviii#C24_app15
A passage marking a journey from the MS to 1831
Heatmap navigator for the Frankenstein Variorum
Heatmap navigator for the Frankenstein Variorum
How did we make this?
Out of the "Spine" data!
XSLT => SVG
See our Method page for details.
And if you want to learn more about collation and text processing, check out this nifty
"Flattening and Raising" slideshow.
How did we make this?
Out of the "Spine" data!
XSLT => SVG
See our Method page for details.
And if you want to learn more about collation and text processing, check out this nifty
"Flattening and Raising" slideshow.
Applying "Spine" Data to Prepare the Interactive Heatmap
Selectors
Hot Spots
Variations
1823
Thomas
Publishing a typical TEI digital scholarly edition, today
Browser, UI & UX
Webapp logic
Database
Server
“not all projects should be maintained in perpetuity. Some are ... not worth the intellectual, technical, and financial overhead of ongoing maintenance.”
(Smithies et al. 2019)
Smithies, James, Carina Westling, Anna-Maria Sichani, Pam Mellen, and Arianna Ciula. 2019. “Managing 100 Digital Humanities Projects: Digital Scholarship & Archiving in King’s Digital Lab.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 013 (1).
Those in charge of infrastructure are also determining, particularly in the long term, the scholarly worth of a project, whether it should remain online, and in what form.
Less infrastructure: a static site approach from the start
Browser, UI & UX: React
Static site
generator:
Node and Astro
Server: GitHub
Low infrastructure approach: inspiration
Endings Project
Minimal Computing
The Variorum's Front End Stack
Summary of technologies at each stage of the FV project
Details on our Method page: https://frankensteinvariorum.org/method/
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