The University of Victoria

Robert Graves Diary Project

Online Edition: Project Process and Objectives

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
• the diary will be available online during development so that users can input suggestions and corrections
• the diary text will be edited and presented before the enclosures
• introductory material will be added once the textual editing is completed and checked
• xml files for diary month will be available for downloading when the project is completed
• metadata will be added to monthly files including the abstracts after the text has been properly marked-up and checked
• all xml files will be converted to unicode utf-8 so that special characters in the text are searchable and so that the files are more robust and load more quickly