Project Title: The Devonshire Manuscript: an Electronic Edition

Principal Researcher (at UVic): Ray Siemens

Co-Investigators & Collaborators: Cara Leitch, Johanne Paquette

Research/Technical Assistance: Karin Armstrong, Martin Holmes

Funding: SSHRC

Description: This project will facilitate a close study of the Devonshire Manuscript's contents, which are unique in nature and operation, chiefly in the hands of Mary Shelton and Margaret Douglas (its principal compilers). Written in an epistolary manner, many of the manuscript's poems present complete exchanges in themselves between those associated with the manuscript and, at times, also represent parts of larger exchanges taking place beyond the borders of the manuscript. One of the chief challenges with this text lies in its difficult paleography, and the collation of its internal and external witnesses.

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Project Title: EMLS Archive (1995-1999)

Principal Researcher (at UVic): Ray Siemens

Research/Technical Assistance: Martin Holmes & Karin Armstrong

Funding: SSHRC, Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Description: This publication gathers the first four years of EMLS in a TEI- compliant archival format. The EMLS Archive offered a unique opportunity to examine the use of lightly encoded text as an archival format, and to demonstrate how such a corpus might be used.

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Project Title: REKn/PReE

Principal Researcher (at UVic): Ray Siemens

Research/Technical Assistance: Alastair McColl, Paul Girn

Funding: SSHRC, CFI, CRC

Description: The proof-of-concept prototype of the Professional Reading Environment (PReE) has explored means of accessing and reading large databases of professional materials, whatever they may be. Our test database was the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn), which is an attempt to capture and present materials toward an understanding of those aspects of early modern life which are of interest to the literary scholar ­ via a combination of digital representations of literary and artistic works of the Renaissance plus those of our own time reflecting our understanding of earlier works.