The Shelley-Godwin Archive
- Host: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
- Other institutions involved: New York Public Library, Bodleian Libraries University of Oxford, Harvard University Library, The Huntington Library, British Library.
- URL: http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/
- Main language: English
General description: will provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers. The result of a partnership between the New York Public Library and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, in cooperation with Oxford’s Bodleian Library, the S-GA also includes key contributions from the Huntington Library, the British Library, and the Houghton Library. In total, these partner libraries contain over 90% of all known relevant manuscripts.
Implementation description: The technical infrastructure of the Shelley-Godwin Archive builds on linked data principles and emerging standards such as the Shared Canvas data model and the Text Encoding Initiative's Genetic Editions vocabulary. It is designed to support a participatory platform where scholars, students, and the general public will be able to engage in the curation and annotation of the Archive's contents.
is one of the early adopters of this new module of the TEI, as is particularly fitting for a manuscript archive. Transcribers record the appearance of the text on the page, as well as identify authorial revisions or even interventions by different hands, an especially important distinction in those manuscripts where Mary and Percy Shelley worked together. This type of encoding enables the presentation of multiple views of the text on the fly, including diplomatic transcriptions faithful to the page image, a clear reading text showing the end result of revisions to each page, and text written only by Mary or Percy Shelley.
Related resources: http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/about#encodingthesga
http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/program/papers/abstracts-paper#C168
https://github.com/umd-mith/sga
Contact:
SG-A Project
0301 Hornbake Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
United States of America
Telephone: 301.405.8927