Links for Class #6

Reading

Horne, John. “Soldiers, Civilians and theWarfare of Attrition: Representations of Combat in France, 1914-1918.” In Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War, edited by Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee, 325–55. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1995.

Letters 1916-23

Susan Schreibman et al., Letters 1916-1932, http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie/.

A project that is similar to ours, only it spans many institutional collections in Ireland and accommodates crowdsourced transcription and contributions. What can we understand about the collection as a whole through the study of the “Visual Exploration” options?

Text Encoding Redux

Let’s spend more time on last week’s lab, Close Reading with the TEI, focusing especially on research on people and places mentioned in the letters. Let’s try crowdsourcing this work at the following link (Google Sheet). Don’t forget about next week’s blog post assessing your experience of this lab.