Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Publication Title
International Journal of Digital Humanities
Volume
1
Issue
1
Publisher Name
Springer
Publisher Location
Cham, Switzerland
Abstract
This is a history of and a technical report on the Charles Harpur Critical Archive (CHCA), in preparation since 2009. Harpur was a predominantly newspaper poet in colonial New South Wales from the 1830s to the 1860s. Approximately 2700 versions of his 700 poems in newspaper and manuscript form have been recovered. In order to manage the complexity of his often heavily revised manuscripts traditional encoding in XML–TEI, with its known difficulties in handling overlapping structures and complex revisions, was rejected. Instead, the transcriptions were split into simplified versions and layers of revision. Markup describing textual formats was stored externally using properties that may freely overlap. Both markup and the versions and layers were merged into multi-version documents (MVDs) to facilitate later comparison, editing and searching. This reorganisation is generic in design and should be reusable in other editorial projects.
Recommended Citation
Eggert, Paul and Schmidt, Desmond A.. The Charles Harpur Critical Archive: A History and Technical Report. International Journal of Digital Humanities, 1, 1: , 2019. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, English: Faculty Publications and Other Works,
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