This was the one project in the portfolio that occurred outside of Carleton. While EarlyPrint has an impressive about page. The work I did on it might not be so clear.
My first task on the project was the correction of gaps in the XML coded versions of the Early English Books Online Corpus.
The original transcribers of Offer and order given forth by sir Thomas Smyth knight, and Thomas Smyth hys sonne left the character after the colon ambiguous, it would be up to us as research assistants to determine if the character in front of the ‘s’ looks more like the ‘a’ or ‘i’ in this type and if we can be certain enough to change it in the document.
I also worked linking higher-quality internet archives images to the existing annotations in the hope of improving the digitized microfilm copies that are most prevalent.
This work in preserving work within the time period I myself studied was interesting because I feel like it also made me a better researcher, again blurring the lines between teaching and doing as DH often does.
