The Robert Graves Diary Project

Online Edition: Project Process and Objectives

Graves’ diary manuscript includes 1546 pages including 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games, etc. etc. The projects’ objective is to produce the first scholarly edition, in print and electronic form of this unpublished diary. A detailed description of the project process and implementation is available at: <http://mustard.tapor.uvic.ca:8080/cocoon/ach_abstracts/proof/poster_113_petter.pdf>

Project TAPoR goals

• To provide internet access using XML technologies to this unique text by Robert Graves
• To encode the diary text electronically with supporting stylistic, interpretive and contextual markup useful for researchers
• To allow for complex (although currently limited) searching of the diary text via the internet using an XML database
• To give researchers a powerful text analysis tool, and to establish a prototype for future electronic publishing and archiving projects

The project specific goals:

• produce a reliable text which reflects the textual flavours of Graves’ diary while correcting errors in the transcription
• present a digital facsimile of the manuscript which is available to the reader simultaneously with the transcript so the reader can check the accuracy of the text
• present explanatory material in a way that does not distract the reader
• incorporate changes suggested from contemporary and modern sources i.e. Karl Goldschmidt’s and William Graves’ notes and annotations
• hyperlink references in the text to other primary sources that will help to elucidate and provide context