Wikidata:WP EMEW/Wikisource
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Sub-project for potential uploads of marked-up texts to Wikisource. Part of Wikidata:WikiProject Early Modern England and Wales.
Overview edit
In March 2021 WikiProject EMEW's partners, Viae Regiae (Q105547906) will be starting a project using Recogito (Q74692524) to create a heavily-annotated version of the Itinerary in Wales (1536-1539) by John Leland (Q1398356), atempting to identify all places mentioned in the text, and place them on the project's "CarterGraph" GIS map. A page marked up with some potential annotations is shown below.
One intended output will be to create a IIIF manifest for the annotated book, for use with page images drawn via the Internet Archive's IIIF service for the IA's copy of the 1906 edition of the book.
This sub-project of Wikidata:WikiProject EMEW will look at whether it may be possible also to upload a suitably marked-up copy of the annotated text to Wikisource.
Challenges edit
Wikisource has been used previously as a site for heavily-annotated works.
For example in 2012 Wikisource was used in conjunction with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (Q172266) for the transcription of several books of field-notes (see eg example page and 2012 blog), using templates such as s:Template:Place, s:Template:Species, and s:Template:wdl.
- Can this model be extended to the more voluminous and nuanced annotations expected to be created by the Viae Regiae project ?
- (Likely to be of the form: identified place as wikidata item, modern label preferred by VR, plus a comment).
- Can the image-based annotations of the IIIF manifest be readily mapped to text-based annotations for Wikisource ?
- Would the Wikisource community accept upload of such a massively annotated text as a worthwhile experiment ?
- WS has traditionally prioritised proofreading of OCR to create attractive but faithful digital editions.
- According to policy s:Wikisource:Annotations annotation is allowed (so long as an unannotated copy is readily available); but 'interpretative annotations' are not. However perhaps it may be possible to bend that for annotations created by an external editorial process, rather than individual wikisource editors.
- Search for "annotation" in the Scriptorium (= Project Chat) archives: [1]
Timescale edit
- The VR annotation team plan to start work on the text in earnest from Sunday 7 March.
- The initial first cycle of the project is expected to last 10 weeks (ie to May 16). This may or may not be enough time to complete the book.
Potential annotations on page edit
