About
The War Service Bureau edition is an ongoing pedagogical project to teach digital editing with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) markup. A slightly outdated tutorial for contributing to the project, based loosely on an assignment by M. H. Beals, may be found at https://github.com/giannetti/TEI-Close-Reading. Stay tuned for updates to our project documentation.
Data and Software
The War Service Bureau edition uses the Jekyll static site generator with the Ed theme for minimal editions. A few selectors were added to the _ed.scss
file to render structural elements typical of correspondence and surveys, such as postmarks, sender and recipient addresses, pre-printed text and handwritten responses. See the project’s GitHub repository for more.
The TEI-XML encodings of the letters, together with the project schema and various processing stylesheets, may be found on GitHub at https://github.com/rutgersdh/wsb-data.
Recommended Citation
Personal correspondence from the Rutgers College War Service Bureau: a minimal documentary edition. Edited by Francesca Giannetti, assisted by Eden Biskin, Gabriella Hudyka, Barbara McIntosh, Alissa Renales, and Rutgers Future Scholars interns. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University–New Brunswick, 2021. https://rutgersdh.github.io/warservicebureau/.