Editorial Policy Statement Revised

I have fixed two errors in the Editorial Policy Statement: I have changed "restraints" in the first paragraph to "constraints" and have replaced an en-dash in the Translations section with an em-dash.

Also, I have folded the longer correspondence editorial policy statement into the correspondence section so that the information now exists in a single location.

~Liz

Spanish version of "Spanish Editions" Intro Page Posted

The Spanish Editions intro/index page, http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/spanish/index.html, now allows users to click through to a Spanish version of the page (a feature we recently adopted for the German editions). Matt Cohen translated the index page and provided the xhtml file.

~Liz

broken link fixed

The link to Ed Folsom's "Reply" (http://www.whitmanarchive.org/about/articles/anc.00143.html) from within "Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives" (http://www.whitmanarchive.org/about/articles/anc.00142.html) was pointing to the wrong file. I've fixed the link.

~Liz

German Translation Added

Liz and I finished preparing the German translation by Hans Reisiger for online publication, and it has now been added to the Whitman Archive website (http://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/german/index.html). We decided to include a German translation of the introductory note, which you can access by clicking on the link in the upper right-hand corner.

~Vanessa

error in transcription of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" fixed

An Archive user pointed out an error in our transcription of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" I deleted the comma following "heavier" after consultation with Susan and after reviewing the page image.

~Liz

link to Integrated Guide added to poetry manuscripts index page

Following discussion at Camp and in consultation with Ken, I've added a link to the Integrated Guide from the Poetry Manuscripts index page, http://www.whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/transcriptions/index.html

The purpose of the addition is to cue users to the fact that even if we have not transcribed a poetry manuscript, images of the manuscript are most likely available via the Integrated Guide.

~Liz

revisions to Criticism Bibliography

Following discussions at Camp, two changes have been made to the Bibliography of Criticism:

1. Luke Hollis checked every entry in the bibliography database to make sure the annotation field included the year of publication. Every entry should now include this information in the annotation field, which means it should subsequently show up in the results display. Following Luke's correcting of the database entries, I removed the display of the bracketed years at the ends of entries in the results display. The bracketed years were intended as a temporary fix to the problem, and with the years now displaying in every citation, they are no longer necessary. In the event that we want or need to reinstate the bracketed years in the future, I have saved the old php file, which formats the appearance of search results, here: /data/public/whitmanarchive/php/bibliography/bibliography_old_july07.php

2. I revised the bibliography index page, http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/bibliography/index.html, so that the lines in the paragraphs explaining the search do not wrap prematurely; the premature line wrapping had been preventing the "search" and "reset" buttons from being visible without scrolling, which was causing problems for some users of the Archive.

~Liz