Technical information

Edition

Mary Hamilton Papers, GB 133 HAM. The University of Manchester, The John Rylands University Library.

Our editorial policies are summarised on the project website.

A linguistically tagged version of the corpus will be made available in due course under the auspices of the new project.

Format

The letters exist in four formats:

• digitised images in PDF
• transliteration in .txt format, plain text, original spelling
• transliteration in .txt format, plain text, normalised spelling
• transliteration in .xml format, with mark-up and metadata

Annotation

The XML files are TEI-conformant (TEI P5). Each file contains a header with metadata and the body of the letter.

The TEI-header includes four major parts, with further components within each of them (description taken from here; subject to change according to the TEI <correspDesc> model): a file description, an encoding description, a text profile description, a revision history.

The transliterations of the body of the letters in XML format reproduce the spelling and punctuation exactly. We have added mark-up according to a subset of the copious TEI and XML guidelines. Below is a list of the features annotated (in alphabetic order). See further information in the editorial policies in our project website.

• abbreviations (with corresponding expanded term)
• additions: addition (by authors), supplied (by transcribers)
• address panel
• alignment
• break: column break, line break, page break, word break across lines
• cancelled/crossed-out/erased text
• catchword
• damaged text
• date of the letter
• dateline
• foreign language
• hand shift in the letter as sent
• italics
• moved passages to their logical points
• notes on the margin
• omissions: deletion (by authors), gap (by transcribers), substitution
• original non-modern forms (and corresponding regularised/normalised form)
• person names
• places mentioned in the letter
• postscript
• quotation: literary or biblical
• salutation: opener, closer
• sic forms (and corresponding present-day standard form)
• signature
• subscript
• superscript
• surplus
• unreadable or uncertain text
• underlining