Category: Digital edition

Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts

Post author By Diane Jakacki
Post date August 29, 2015
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(project description from the Overview page): “Many of the Austen manuscripts are frail; open and sustained access has long been impossible for conservation and location reasons. Digitization at this stage in their lives not only offers the opportunity for the virtual reunification of a key manuscript resource, it will also be accompanied by a record in as complete a form as possible of the conservation history and current material state of these manuscripts to assist their future conservation.”

This digital edition incorporates facsimiles of manuscript pages written in Jane Austen’s own hand. It demonstrates how frail paper documents can be digitized and transcribed in a side-by-side transcription environment.

Tags Jane Austen, King's College London, literature, novel, transcription, University of Oxford

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Transcribe Bentham

Post author By Katie Faull
Post date September 1, 2014

Transcribe Bentham

‘Many hands make light work. Many hands together make merry work‘, wrote the philosopher and reformer, Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832) in 1793. In this spirit, we cordially welcome you to Transcribe Bentham, a double award-winning collaborative transcription initiative, which is digitising and making available digital images of Bentham’s unpublished manuscripts through a platform known as the ‘Transcription Desk‘. There, you can access the material and—just as importantly—transcribe the material, to help the work of UCL’s Bentham Project, and further improve access to, and searchability of, this enormously important collection of historical and philosophical material.”

http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/

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Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary

Post author By Katie Faull
Post date September 1, 2014

The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project

Link to project home page

About the Project
(excerpted from the project website)

The publication of Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary: A Multispectral Critical Edition reveals for the first time the original record of a remarkable and traumatic period in the life of David Livingstone, the celebrated British abolitionist, missionary, and explorer of Africa. The date of publication coincides almost exactly with the date Livingstone completed this diary in Central Africa 140 years ago. The original, previously unpublished text of the diary has remained inaccessible until now, due to the fragility of the paper and the near-illegible script. The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project has restored the full text of the diary by using cutting-edge spectral imaging and processing technology, and now makes the diary available through this electronic edition.