A new edition of the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry project
: Martin Holmes
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A new edition of DVPP has been released today. Edition 0.98.10 of DVPP has the following updates and new features:
- Poem index: Over 3,000 new poems have been indexed, with attribution, poem notes, and metadata, from 7 new periodicals: Argosy, Longman’s, Temple Bar, Poor Man’s Guardian, English Illustrated Magazine, Evergreen, and Pagan Review. (For Temple Bar, attribution from publisher’s archive still ongoing.)
- Attributions and Corrections: many updates have been made to earlier poems and person records published in the index.
- Personography: over 800 new person records have been added.
- Transcribed poems: over 500 new poems have been transcribed and encoded.
- Genre tags: genre tags for several types of sonnet have been added, and these are now available as filters on the Search for poems page. There is also a sonnet form taxonomy, including index pages for different kinds of sonnets.
- The following new subcollections have been added (linked from the home page): Sonnet Sequences, Scottish Poetry, and Dogs. Abbreviations: A list of abbreviations for commonly-used sources has been added.