Walt Whitman Archive Changelog

Saturday, November 22, 2008

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

Monday, November 10, 2008

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

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

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

Monday, November 3, 2008

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

Friday, October 31, 2008

Periodicals section updated

I have added my essay, "Editing Whitman's Poems in Periodicals," to the Periodicals section of the site. I've also slightly revised the index page for "Whitman's Poems in Periodicals," including revisions to titles of the two introductory essays and the addition of author names. In addition, I have moved the link that used to appear on the index page that linked to poems misattributed to Whitman. This link now appears at the beginning of the Bibliography of Whitman's Poems first Published in Periodicals, http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/bibliography/index.html.

Both Susan's essay, "Introduction to Whitman's Poems in Periodicals," and mine are also now linked from Articles and Interviews about the Archive, per Ken's instruction.

I'll be continuing to update (adding new material and fixing oddities) the Periodicals section over the next couple of weeks.

~Liz

Corrections to reviews xml and html files

I believe I have addressed the problem with italics in the review tei files. A majority of untitled reviews for which we derived an Archive title, such as [Review of Leaves of Grass (1881-1882)], did not include <hi rend="italic"> around book titles (this was not just an LG issue, as was previously thought) in either <titleStmt><title> or <head>. In the display of the reviews, the content of <head> appears at the beginning of the document, and the publication information following the review pulls information from the content of <title> in <titleStmt>. I have revised the tei files, and italics should now be displaying in both places. Something to think about: <hi rend="italic"> is allowed in <title>, but for some reason it seems a little strange to me, and without more investigation I'm not sure how common its use is in <title> across other Archive files. This may be an issue to revisit as we develop plans for migrating to p5, since it could be one of those places where we can achieve an even finer level of consistency.

I fixed a broken link in the publication information of anc.00189, http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/anc.00189.html

I also updated <title> on several html pages because the titles, which appear in Google/other search engine results and at the top of the browser, were incorrect.

~Liz

Monday, October 27, 2008

"Electronic Scholarly Editions" added to the Archive

I have added Ken's essay, "Electronic Scholarly Editions," first published in the Blackwell Companion to Digital Literary Studies, to the Articles and Interviews section of the Archive. Thanks to Sarah for encoding.

~Liz

About the WWA Changelog

Scholars have long relied on print-based resources that are stable, or that remain more or less constant over time. The Whitman Archive, by contrast, changes frequently as new content is added and as errors are located and corrected. This record of additions and changes to the content to the Archive responds to the challenge of creating a digital resource that can serve as a scholarly reference. It represents an effort to be transparent about our methods and history and to render visible changes that would be otherwise largely invisible. We do not record minor changes to the appearance of the site or temporary server outages.