Diane K. Jakacki

Tag: Digital Edition

  • On marking up Henry VIII

    On marking up Henry VIII

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    This week I submitted the F1 old-spelling transcription of Henry VIII to ISE. To be specific, I submitted a light mark-up to an already thorough one undertaken by ISE’s research assistants. All of the hardcore TEI had already been done (character id’s, line numbering, indication of long s’s, and much more); I was responsible for…

  • Over at the Tarlton Project ..

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    The Tarlton’s Jests repository is up at Github. You can read about initial plans at the Tarlton Project site.

  • Crowdsourcing Tarlton’s Jests

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    I’ve been considering best ways to develop practices that assist in collaborative digital edition production. Over on the Tarlton Project site I’ve started the ball rolling with some thoughts about crowdsourcing Tarlton’s Jests that might lead somewhere. Or not. Feedback requested.

  • Student Digital Edition: Observations & Reflections

    Student Digital Edition: Observations & Reflections

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    I’ve written before about the final project I assigned to my students for this term’s ENGL1102: Shakespeare’s English Histories course. The assignment was an ambitious experiment to see how students would collaborate on a digital edition of the Queen’s Men play The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth. I haven’t yet assessed the students’ final artifacts,…

  • Teaching Tarlton: success!

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    For my fall ENGL1102 course in City Comedy I assigned students to produce a collaborative digital edition of Tarlton’s Jests. I was curious to see how these anecdotes would work for an undergraduate, non-English major audience. I also wanted to explore how strong a connection could be made between the Jests and a study of…