Tuesday, June 30, 2020

"In Whitman's Hand" index page re-ordered

As decided at a meeting with the project directors, I have re-ordered the items on the "In Whitman's Hand" index page, in an attempt to group together similar types of documents. The order used to be:
  • Manuscripts
  • Scribal Documents
  • Notebooks
  • Marginalia and Annotations
  • Letters Written for Soldiers
The new order is:
  • Manuscripts
  • Notebooks
  • Marginalia and Annotations
  • Scribal Documents
  • Letters Written for Soldiers
- Kevin

Slight re-wording on "Published Works" index page

As decided at a meeting with the project directors, I have slightly altered the text of the "Published Works" index page. The text underneath the "Periodicals" heading used to read: "This section of the Archive features page images and full-text transcriptions of Whitman's writings that first appeared in periodicals." The final word has now been replaced with "newspapers and magazines," to cut down on redundancy and add specificity. The sentence now reads: "This section of the Archive features page images and full-text transcriptions of Whitman's writings that first appeared in newspapers and magazines."

- Kevin

Change made to Traubel Introduction

As decided at a meeting with the project directors, I have deleted the final paragraph of Matt Cohen's introduction to Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden, as it was no longer accurate or relevant.

- Kevin

Matt Cohen named as Whitman Archive co-director

Matt Cohen has been named a co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, and numerous sections throughout the site (anywhere the project directors are listed) have been updated to reflect this change.

- Kevin

Friday, June 26, 2020

Removed map of short fiction reprints

I have removed the map of the short fiction reprints from the fiction section of the Whitman Archive. We are currently investigating other frameworks for recreating the map.

~ Nikki

Monday, June 22, 2020

Small corrections to entry of 27 Nov. 1888 in With Walt Whitman in Camden

Matt noticed that the month was missing from the head in this entry and that the word "at" was missing in the phrase "the old Quaker looked at me." I have made the corrections.

~ Brett

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Added editorial note to Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook

We have added an editorial note to the metadata of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook, alerting users to the related manuscripts (those that were likely removed from the scrapbook in the 1930s) as well as to the existence of the scrapbook image viewer. This was done for those viewers who access the document's transcription page without first coming to the scrapbook index page.

- Kevin

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Correction to heading for entry in With Walt Whitman in Camden

Ed noticed that the link to the single-entry page for September 18, 1891 (https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/8/med.00008.220.html) had become garbled, so I have corrected it. The corresponding heading in the file for the entirety of volume 8 needed no change.

~ Brett