More updates to Periodicals

1. In the bibliography of poems published in periodicals, the entry "No Turning Back." Sunday Times 14 August 1842: [1] used to link to the wrong item. I've fixed the link.

2. I've revised the language in notes for "Our Future Lot" and "Time To Come," so that they provide more information about the ambiguous dating of what is believed to be the poem's first appearance in the Long-Islander. I've also revised the language in the headnotes for the Aurora and the Long-Islander as well as in the bibliography accordingly.

3. I've provided additional bibliographic information in editorial notes that reference the Comprehensive Reader's Edition of Leaves of Grass and volumes of correspondence. Rather than simply referring to the "Reader's Edition," for example, the notes now include full bibliographic information, where appropriate. See:
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/poems/per.00125
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/poems/per.00121
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/poems/per.00117

Since we are able to--and do--link directly to volumes of With Walt Whitman in Camden from notes in the periodicals section, I have not provided full citations in those cases.

~Liz

Editorial policy statement revised

Following our discussion at last week's staff meeting, I have revised the language about image processing in our editorial policy statement.

The relevant section previously read: We first obtain a high-resolution digital image (TIFF scanned at 600 DPI or photographed at 3008 x 2000 pixels) and enter it into a tracking database. This high quality image is the basis for the transcription. To prepare it for web presentation, the image is converted to JPEG file format, cropped, and color-corrected. It is saved in three file sizes to accommodate various users' needs.

The new, revised language: We first obtain a high-resolution digital image (TIFF scanned at 600 DPI or photographed at 3008 x 2000 pixels) and enter it into a tracking database. This high quality image is the basis for the transcription. To prepare it for web presentation, the TIFF image is cropped and then used to derive three different JPEG images of different sizes to accommodate various users' needs.

~Liz

"Time to Come" added to the Periodicals section

I've added the page image, cropped view, and poem transcription for "Time to Come" to the Periodicals section of the Archive. I've updated the New York Aurora headnote so that it links to the new transcription. I've also added "Time to Come" to our bibliography of poems first published in periodicals. In all places, I've included the note, "This poem was published in the Aurora with the notation 'From the Democratic Review.' To date, however, we have not been able to verify that it was originally published there."

~Liz

Copy-text information added to Periodicals section

In consultation with Brett and Ken, I have made copy-text information available at the end of each poem in the Periodicals section of the Archive. In addition to revising the periodicals.xsl file, I have also revised the TEI header of the necessary poem transcriptions. The project note in the sourceDesc has been modified from, "Transcribed from our own digital image of the original" to "Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original." The language varies as necessary for scans from microfilm.

~Liz

Missing Images Added to the 1871 Passage to India Supplement

I have processed and uploaded images for pages 35 through 120 of the Passage to India annex in the 1871-72 edition of Leaves of Grass. Thanks to Matt Miller for alerting us that the images were still unavailable online.

~ Vanessa

Link to encoding guidelines now points to Whitman Archive wiki; private wiki established

Following successful installation and set-up of the private Whitman Archive wiki (http://whitmanarchive.org/staff/wiki/index.php/Main_Page username and password required) by Jason Bougger in CORS, I have moved private content from the public wiki (http://whitmanarchive.org/staff/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) to the private wiki. I have also revised the html of the About index page (http://www.whitmanarchive.org/about/index.html) to point to the encoding guidelines on public wiki. The major and most noticeable advantage of this change is that the encoding guidelines are no longer password protected, as they were when the wiki was hosted on segonku. Other information is or will be available to users of the Whitman Archive via the public wiki, including publicity and work history documents. The private wiki will eventually replace the Work in Progress page. More updates are forthcoming.

~Liz

Preferred Citations, EAD and contributors page

I have updated UC Berkeley's EAD file to reflect their newly requested citation:
Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
(I also edited the way the name appears on the Finding Aids contents/index page.)

I updated the collection name on the Contributor's page in the About section.

Stacey

revisions to New York Aurora headnote

I've made two small changes to the New York Aurora headnote, based on suggestions from Ken and Susan:

1. In the first sentence, the phrase "preoccupation on" has been changed to "preoccupation with."
2. The last sentence has been revised from "Whitman published two poems in the Aurora but left his position as editor by mid-May, following disagreements with the publishers over their efforts to control his editorials and articles" to "Whitman published two poems in the Aurora but left his position as editor by mid-May, following disagreements with the publishers over their efforts to shape his editorials."

~Liz

Preferred Citations—2 new; 1 revised

Per their request, I have altered Berkeley's preferred citation in the encoding guidelines. I have also added citation information for Knox College and Indiana University.

~ Brett

"The Death and Burial of McDonald Clarke" added to Poems in Periodicals

I've added the page image and transcription of "The Death and Burial of McDonald Clarke," first published in the New York Aurora on March 18, 1842, to Poems in Periodicals. I've revised the headnote, index page of the list of poems, and the bibliography accordingly. Janel Cayer and Vanessa Steinroetter proofread the transcription.

~Liz