Links in With Walt Whitman in Camden corrected

Liz pointed out that links to the WWWiC texts were making calls to the test server (libr). I made three changes to the traubel xslt stylesheets, substituting relative paths to local files on kosmos for the absolute references to files on libr. Specifically, the changed references are to the "figures" directory and the linkstyle.css stylesheet.

~ Brett

WWA People Page Update

On December 12, I made the following changes to the WWA People page:

 

Photos and bios were added for

Erica Fretwell

Beverley Rilett

Joshua Ware

 

(Janel Cayer will be added, as will Ted Genoways and Blake Bronson-Bartlett.)

 

These staff members were moved to the contributors section:

 

Zach Bajaber (web design and programming) 2004-2008

Wesley Raabe (developed a prototype web site and information architecture for the Civil War Washington project) 2007-2008

 

Changes were made to several bios and photos of existing WWA staff  who provided updates.

 

-Bev Rilett

 

 

"Beat! Beat! Drums!" image added 12/1

On December 1, I uploaded the full-page and cropped images of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" to the periodicals part of the site. Thanks to Sarah for scanning the pages of Harper's Weekly and Janel for merging the scans.

Images from the New York Aurora will be coming soon (following server switch).

~Liz

changes to Traubel biography

The Horace Trabuel biograpy at
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/tei/anc.00249.html
had a surprising number of typos in it. I have fixed the following:


1)In the last sentence of the first paragraph, I changed the word "our"
to "out."

2)In the fifth paragraph, a sentence said "Traubel was indefatigable in his support of Whitman's word." Changed to read: "Whitman's work."

3)In the second paragraph, Traubel is referred to as one of Whitman's "literary executers." Changed to "literary executors." (Traubel's work wasn't that deadly!)

4) In the last paragraph, the word Bon appeared as BOn in the first sentence. Fixed.

Ken

DTD made available and linked from About section

I uploaded a zip file containing the newly tweaked DTD, chars.ent, and notas.ent. And I added a link to the zip file at the bottom of the index page in the "About" section.

~ Brett

Once a Week headnote revised

Susan and I have revised the Once a Week headnote, per.00184 of Whitman's Poems in Periodicals, to correct some information. I posted the revised version of the headnote on Monday, November 3, 2008.

~Liz

contemporary review added

I have added a review of the 1860-1861 edition of Leaves of Grass, T.V.'s "Walt Whitman," which appeared in the Liberator on 7 September 1860. The review is linked via the index page of reviews for the 1860-61 edition; its direct url is http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/anc.00266.html

Thanks to Sabrina and Sarah for their work on the transcription and encoding of this review.

~Liz