Stow’s Survey: Outcomes, Objectives, Deliverables

Outcomes

  1. Teachers and students will be able to teach and read Stow’s Survey in classrooms.
  2. Scholars will produce a new wave of scholarship on the texts, drawing on the historical records, eyewitness accounts, and visual materials in our editions and in the Stow’s Books project.
  3. Historians will have a better understanding of London’s changing demographics, self-representation, and infrastructure.
  4. Geohumanists will generate new insights about place and cultural performance.

Objectives

  1. Transcribe and encode all four editions of Stow’s Survey.
  2. Write critical paratexts for the MoEML edition of Stow’s Survey.
  3. Link to the Stow’s Books project.
  4. Develop a versioning interface that allows for the side-by-side comparison of aligned sections.

Deliverables

Content

  1. Final entity tagging for Stow 1598 (Y1)
  2. Editorial Declaration for Stow 1598 (Y1)
  3. Encoding Declaration for Stow 1598 (Y1)
  4. First half of 1633 encoded (Y1)
  5. Table of Contents (Y1)
  6. Edition Title Page (Y1)
  7. Note on the Markup and Rendering (Y1)
  8. Peer Review Process (Y1)
  9. Second half of 1633 encoded (Y2)
  10. 1598 sources identified (Y2)
  11. Links from 1598 to Stow’s Books (Y2)
  12. Textual Essay (Y2-Y3)
  13. Transcription of 1618 (Y3)
  14. 1618 encoded (Y4)
  15. Digital peer review packages (Y4)
  16. Key sections of 1633 and 1598 identified to test versioning tool (Y4)
  17. Documentation for analyzing Stow with versioning tool (Y5)
  18. 1603 encoded (Y5)
  19. Critical Introduction (Y5)
  20. Note on the Digital Edition (Y5)
  21. Working with the Electronic Edition (Y5)
  22. The Future of the Digital Edition (Y5)
  23. Dynamic Corrigenda (Y5)
  24. Revisit Note on the Markup and Rendering (Y5)

Digital Tools

  1. Dynamic credits (Y1-Y5)
  2. Facsimile viewer (Y2)
  3. Versioning tool (Y5)