Digital Mitford!

Digital Mitford!

Follow our project!

http://digitalmitford.org

Blog:

https://digitalmitford.wordpress.com/

Our (Many Year) Mission:

Training

• Our Editors: Annual Workshops

Data Visualization

• Our Students: Course Materials

• to produce the first comprehensive scholarly database of the works and letters of Mary Russell Mitford, and

Network of Mitford's correspondents:

Proofreading Guidelines

The Codebook:

http://codebook.mitford.pitt.edu

Coding Handout

• to share knowledge of TEI XML and other related humanities computing practices with all serious scholars interested in contributing to the project.

Co-occurrence networks:

http://digitalmitford.org/visual.html

Mapping and Georeferencing:

http://warp.worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/4488#Preview_Map_tab

Digital Mitford's Guide to 19th-century British Postmarks, and How to Code Them in TEI:

http://www.slideshare.net/ebbondar/how-to-read-and-code-19thcentury-british-postmarks-in-tei?

Building an XML database!

Code in TEI and project schema, access via eXist-db

• "Test Bed": letters, drama, poetry, prose fiction from 1810-1825
• "Site Index": prosopography: Project Backbone: http://digitalmitford.org/si.xml
• People and Organizations (historical / fictional)
• Places (historical / fictional)
• Texts and Artwork (multiple lists)
• Named Events
• Flora/Fauna

View of Site Index in <oXygen/>

Mitford Letter Interface

http://digitalmitford.org/phpStuff/lettersInterface.html

Compile in MySQL:

• Locations and Metadata on Manuscripts

http://digitalmitford.org/lettersData.html

• Bibliography of all published works in all editions

http://digitalmitford.org/bibliogType.html