Author: Graves

Robert Graves Diary Project

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A University of Victoria Libraries Digitization Project

Graves’ Diary Manuscript: Toward Electronic Publication

Graves’ Manuscript	Edited Typescript	Mark-Up & Research	Validation & Proofing	Transformation
Robert Graves’ Diary written between 1935-1939 held at UVic Special Collections / 1156 entries and 117 enclosures are digitized and stored in an Image Index / Mss. reveals additions and deletions, author’s commentary, etc.	Digital transcript by Beryl Graves. Typescript held by Graves Trust includes Karl Goldschmidt’s editing and commentary. Notes also contributed by William Graves. / Tss. digitized and used for verification and interpretation of Graves’ handwriting and / abbreviated references	Frequently used proper names, place and bibliographic references are entered into a NoteTab library file for easy tagging / XML database created for primary, tagged reference links / Explanatory notes and commentary are noted in text	XML editor oXygen validates marked up files / Transformation to browser allows proofing for overview of final mark-up (excluding JavaScript pop-ups)	XML files and ancillary files transformed using TEI corpus DTD and XSLT into XHTML / eXist database allows reader to search or browse the Diary enclosures, logs, and entries along with supporting images / JavaScript pop-ups reveal reference material

Electronic Manuscript: Development & Implementation

Online Edition: Project Process and Objectives

References assembled in 3 MS Access databases / Diary converted from ASCCII into individual day entries (U New Brunswick) / Dairy pages scanned as tiffs, then saved in 2 sizes of jpegs / Image cross-index created in MS Excel lists individual images & correlates them to Diary entry dates / TEI DTD (TEI Corpus) created using Pizza Chef	Rendering uses an XML processor which allows for editing and browsing but not searching / Cross-index allows digitized images to appear along with transcribed Diary entries / JavaScript enables pop-ups for name, place, and title references	eXist is an XML database written in XPath query language that allows querying of any data string in the text / References and images are transformed through the eXist database and are simultaneously displayed with the Diary entries, enclosures, and logs

What the Graves Project Hopes to Accomplish
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