War Service Bureau
personal correspondence from the Rutgers College War Service Bureau

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 A slightly outdated tutorial for contributing to the project, based loosely on an assignment by M. H. Beals, may be found at https://github.com/giannetti/TEI-Close-Reading.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.

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/.