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The Digital Temple: A Preview of Features, Current and Potential
Author(s) -
Whalen Robert
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00769.x
Subject(s) - spelling , computer science , rendering (computer graphics) , transcription (linguistics) , temple , library of congress , literature , encoding (memory) , natural language processing , information retrieval , artificial intelligence , world wide web , art , linguistics , history , library science , philosophy , ancient history
The Digital Temple is an electronic scholarly edition of George Herbert’s English verse. When complete, it will include diplomatic and modern‐spelling transcriptions linked to corresponding digital images of three essential artifacts: Williams Manuscript Jones B62, Bodleian Manuscript Tanner 307, and a copy of The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (first edition, 1633). The transcriptions are accompanied by critical annotations and glosses, and all materials – transcriptions, images, and apparatus – are presented through a customized user interface. The transcription files are marked up according to the Text Encoding Initiative P5 standard, a robust encoding protocol rendering the texts susceptible to an array of display and data search‐and‐retrieval operations. This essay briefly introduces the resource, its principal features and potential, and discusses some of the technical underpinnings that make it a potentially powerful research tool.