Monday, March 21, 2016

How I Edit

Well, it's been over a month since I last blogged about my internship! I am still editing Gildon's Golden Spy and today I figured I would show you lot what I have edited. When I edit, I make notes of what I fixed and any questions I have. I deliver these notes to Dr. Nowka through the Exhibits tab on 18th Connect. We talk about my edits and question every Tuesday at one in his office.


2/18/16 Page 21 
Line 28 ("which Gold will not gain Admittance and")- I made the word 'Gold' italics, <hi rend="italics"> </h>. At first, I wasn't sure if the word was suppose to be italics, but then I noticed the first editor made 'Gold' italics when it came up a couple of times later on the page. 

Line 32 ("<hi rend="italics" > Gold </h> is not nature, as will plain")- The first editor added a period at the end of the line but there is no period in the original text so I deleted it. 

Line 34.5- I didn't make any revisions on this line because I wasn't sure if the symbol was a catchword or signature mark. 

2/19/16 Page 22 
I reviewed this page and everything was fine. 

2/20/16 Page 23 
Line 13- the first editor spelt 'Sejanus' 'Sejanms' so I fixed it. 

2/22/16 Page 24 
On this day when I was editing page 24, I noticed that the first editor did not close a code for italics correctly. The editor typed in </h> instead of </hi>. So after I finished editing page 24, I went through pages 18-23 to see if the other italic codes were closed wrong and most of them were so I fixed them. 

2/28 Page 25 
4-Had to close a set of  italics. 
11-Had to add close italics; "of the Ladies Visiting-days"-hard to read.
12-Had to close italics again.
18- Had to close italics.
19-Had to close italics.
22-Had to close italics.
24-Had to close italics.
29-Had to close italics.
2/28/16 Page 26
10-Is there a period after Arcana Imperri?
13 Took out the period after ‘their’18 (closed one the italics).
21-Closed one of the italics)
23 -Closed italics.
31-Closed italics.

2/28/16 Page 27
1-Added comma at the end of line.
3 Revised 'fhort' to 'short' and 'fation 'to 'station.'
9- Nance (is kind of hard to read)
16-Had to close italics.
19-Had to close italics.
28-Had to close italics.

2/28/16 Page 28
6- First drop cap on this line
17- Added an ‘i’ to ‘while’
19- Changed 'himfelf' to 'himself.'


2/28/16 Page 29
11- Edited 'Magnisifence' to 'Magnificence.'
12- Revised 'th' to 'the.'
16-Revised 'carniva' to 'carnival.'

2/28/16 Page 30
No errors 

2/29/16  Page 31
Line 29- ‘burst’ is hard to read. I also corrected the spelling for this word.The first editor originally wrote a different word.


2/29/16 Page 32 
Line 17- The ‘his’ on this line is hard to read.
Line 30- ‘Gentleman’ is hard to read.
Line 31- ‘show’d himself not’ - hard to read
Line 34- ‘some’ was hard to read
Line 35- ‘Guido’ is the catchword but it is also italicized. Should I make it italics? 

2/29/16 Page 33 (overall, this page was easier to read than other pages because the font was bolder.)
Line 26- added an extra ’s’ to ‘possession’ 

2/29/16 Page 34 
Line 2- The first editor spelt ‘Jewels’ ‘Jetwels.’
Line 19- Added a comma after ‘Opportunity.’ 


2/29/16 Page 35 
Line 4- "he furnish’d Bernardo" is hard hard to read. I also had to close an italics on 'Bernardo.' 
Line 9- Guido is hard to read.
Line 12- ‘occasion’ is impossible to read.
Line 13- ‘whilst’ is hard to read.
Line 38- Added ‘ ‘d’ to sacrificed.
Line 41- Added ‘ ‘d’ to accomplish'd.
Line 49- ‘of’ is the catchword but it is also italicized. Should I make it italics?

2/29/16 Page 36 
Line 5- Is ‘Love’ italics?
Line 15- Does this line end in a colon or period?
Line 26- Added ‘ ‘d’ to ‘troubl’d’
Line 27- added an ‘ ' ' to tho’
Line 30- Added a comma after ‘Resentment.’
Line 34- Are catchwords always in italics? 

3/6/16 Page 37
Line 9- Added the word ‘is.’
Line 13- Added a comma after ‘mention.’
Line 32- Added a dash to the end of the line.

3/6/16 Page 38
Line 33- The first editor made ‘Happiness’ italics. It is not italicize.

3/6/16 Page 39
Line 1- The first editor spelt ‘the’ as ‘he.’
Line 27- Is the ‘r’ in ‘Pow’r’ italicize? The first editor has in un-italicize.

3/6/16 Page 40
Line 6- The first editor made this line italics. It is not.
Line 11- Added an ‘l’ to ‘artful.’

3/6/16 Page 41
Line 3: The first editor ended the line with a semi-colon. It’s actually a colon.
Line 7- Is the world ‘flighting’ or 'slighting’?

3/6/16 Page 42
Line 17- The line had a period at the beginning so I took it out.
Line 25- Is it 'Pythagor as’ or ‘Pythagroas’?
Line 35- The first editor spelt ‘nance’ ‘nuance’.

3/6/16 Page 43
Line 11- The first editor spelt ‘must’ ‘murt.’ 

3/14/16  Page 44
Line 1- Is the first word ‘violence’? I had to resize the box on this line so it included the last word, ‘I.’
Line 3- How do I add the long two dashes on this line?
Line 5- How do I add the long dash after Mrs.?
Line 9- First editor typed ‘tile’ instead of ‘the fides.’
Line 20- First editor typed ‘prefs’d’ instead of ‘press’d.’
Line 22- There was no space between 'but' and 'little' so I added a space.
Line 31- First editor typed ‘blufh’d’ instead of ‘blush’d.’
Line 32- the first editor added an n after the m in ‘Demi’ so I took it out.

3/14/16 Page 45
Line 10- This line looks like a new title. Do I need to apply any special coding to signal that?

3/14/16 Page 46
Line 9- The first editor added an ‘e’ after the letter ’t’ in the word, ‘entring.’Should they have done that?

3/14/16 Page 47
Line 6- The first editor added an apostrophe after the word ‘in’ but there isn’t an apostrophe so I took it out.
Line 11- The first editor added italics to the words ‘said she’ but it isn’t italicized in the original text.
Line 34.5- There was no catchword coding for the word ‘be’ in this line so I added them.

3/14/16 Page 48
Line 5- The first editor added a period after ‘unbraid’ but there isn’t one in the original text so I took it out.
Line 14- The first editor forgot to add a ‘g’ to the word ‘figure’ so I added it.
Line 15- There wasn’t a comma added after ‘Shoulders’ so I added it in.
Line 29- I resized the box so it included the period.
Line 30- The first editor forgot to close the parenthesis after the word ‘Gallant.'
’Line 36- The 2 in the signature mark is tinier than the D. Should I add a special code to identify that? 

3/14/16 Page 49
Line 1- I had to make the first word lower case because the first editor made it upper case.
Line 34- Is this actually a catchword?

3/14/16 Page 50
Line 15- The first editor wrote ‘affuring’ instead of ‘assuring’
Line 33- The 3 in the signature mark is tinier than the D. Should I add a special code to identify that?

3/14/16 Page 51
Lines 1-4- These lines look like a new title. Do I need to code them a certain way?
Line 24- I had to resize the box so it included the ’t’ in ‘to.’

3/14/16 Page 52
Line 3- I had to resize the box so it included the ’n’ in ‘preservation.’
Line 4- The first editor wrote ‘at’ after Guinea instead of ‘a.’ The first editor also ended this line with a period but there isn't one in the original so I took it out.
Line 31- The first editor spelt ‘design’d’ wrong.
Line 34- The 4 in the signature mark is tinier than the D. Should I add a special code to identify that?

3/14/16 Page 53
Line 16- I resized the box to include the ‘e’ in ‘compare.’

3/14/16 Page 55
Line 20- I had to resize the box to include the semi-colon at the end.
Line 26- The first editor did not put a space between the words ‘the’ and ‘many’ so I added one.
Line 32- I put an ’s’ in ‘Dif-.’

3/14/16 Page 56
Line 10- I resized this box to include the colon at the end of the line.
Line 12- How to add in the long dash before ‘Virg.’?
Line 29- The first editor wrote ‘hilher’ instead of ‘higher’ so I fixed it.

3/14/16 Page 57
Line 25- The first editor typed ‘pot’ instead of ‘not’ so I fixed it.
Line 26- Had to re-write this line because the first editor wrote something completely different.
Line 27- The first editor wrote ‘late’ instead of ‘Inte.’
Line 28- First editor wrote ‘reft’ instead of ‘rest.’
Line 29- First editor forgot the ‘i’ in ‘fine.’
Line 31- First editor wrote ‘ibr’ instead of ‘for.
Line 32- First editor wrote ‘Inflead’ instead of ‘Instead’
Line 33- First editor wrote ‘foollih’ instead of ‘foolish.’
Line 34- First editor wrote ‘LMan’ instead of ‘Man.’

3/15/16 Page 58 
Line 31- Resized the box to include the ‘c’ in ‘ctim.’
Line 32- The first editor wrote ‘Betides’ instead of ‘Besides’ so I fixed it.

3/15/16 Page 59
Line 11- The first editor forgot to add an extra ‘i’ in ‘ciliate.’ They also wrote ‘for’ twice by accident so I took that out.
Line 24- the first editor put an apostrophe between ‘who’ and ‘never’ but there isn’t one.

3/15/16 Page 60
Line 4- The first editor spelt ‘consider’ wrong so I corrected it.
Line 12- Had to resize the red box so it included the last word ‘and.’

3/15/16 Page 61
Found nothing wrong

3/15/16 Page 62
Line 12- The first editor had ‘Olympia’ in italics so I took it out.

3/15/16 Page 63
Found nothing wrong

3/15/16 Page 64
Line 3- Resized the box to include the period.
Line 24- The first editor did not make ‘and not’ italics so I corrected that.

3/15/16 Page 65
Line 28- Had to resize the box to include the first word

3/15/16 Page 66
Line 30- First editor wrote ‘Rostana’ but it is actually ‘Rossana.’
Line 33- Had to resize the box.

3/15/16 Page 67
Nothing wrong.

3/15/16 Page 68
Line 28- First editor forgot the ‘o’ in ‘Pretensions.’
Line 29 +30- Had to resize the box.
Line 31- ‘Woman’ was no capitalized so I fixed it. 

3/21/16 Page 69 
Line 8- Had to resize the red box to include the entire word.
Line 12- Had to resize the box.
Line 19- Had to resize the box.
*Line 20- I can’t edit this line! *
*Lines 32-33- I can’t edit these lines!*
Line 37- The first editor wrote ‘ro’ after ‘care’ instead of ‘to’ so I corrected it.
Line 38- Had to resize the box.
Line 42- The first editor made the ‘Room’ a "drop cap" instead of a “catch word” so I fixed that.

3/21/16 Page 70
Line 20- Made ‘But’ italics.
Line 27- Had to resize the box.
Line 30- Added a ‘u’ to you.

3/21/16 Page 71
Line 34- Had to resize the red box.

3/21/16Page 72
Line 24- Had to resize the red box.

3/21/16 Page 73
Line 8- Is the word after ‘Court’ ‘fell’ or ‘sell’?
Line 22- Added an ‘h’ to 'Bishopricks’
Line 28- Changed ‘felling’ to ‘selling.’

3/21/16 Page 74
Line 6- Had to italicize ‘Camillo.’
Line 27- The first editor wrote ‘lest’ instead of ‘left.’

3/21/16 Page 75
Line 15- Had to resize the red box.
Line 18- Had to resize the red box.

3/21/16Page 76
Line 5- Is the word ‘haft’ or ‘hast’?

3/21/16 Page 77
Line 3- Had to resize the box.

3/21/16 Page 78
Nothing wrong

3/21/16 Page 79
Nothing wrong.

3/21/16 Page 80
Line 5- Had to resize the box
Line 17- Had to resize the box 

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Where I'm At

It's been a while since I last updated this blog.  Since my first post,  I completed my Code Academy course on html and css and am currently editing Gildon's The Golden Spy on my 18th Connect account. Nowka edited the first eighteen pages over winter break and I am picking up from where he left off. Right now my goal is to edit a page per day whilst I am still getting used to digital editing. I am the editor for three publications, but until now I never had to worry about TypeWright accepted tags and attributes. When I have any questions about editing, I write to Nowka via 18th Connect's discussion board. 

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Introduction & Week One

Greetings! 

My name is Lisa Danca and I am a senior at Salem State University. This semester I will be serving as a research assistant on Dr. Scott Nowka's digital humanities project. The page you are now on is the corner of the Internet where I will be logging my experience. 

Nowka's project is on Charles Gildon and textual editing.  As soon as I got word I'd be working with him  from my internship coordinator, Dr. Roopika Risam, I knew it would be a perfect fit for me based on my concentration, professional writing. 

On the first day of classes, January 19th, I read two readings Nowka assigned me- the first chapter from Debates In The Digital Humanities and a bibliography entry regarding Gildon. The chapter was a brief overview of the digital humanities and reasons as to why English departments are heavily involved in them. The most fascinating things I learned from it was that in the 2009 MLA Convention digital humanities was named the next big thing in academia and that social media has been used to heavily promote and popularize it. This semester I am taking Social Media and Collaborative, where an emphasis will be put on workplace usage. 

On January 26, I had my first formal meeting with Nowka. It was here I learned what I will be doing for him over the next fifteen weeks. I will be responsible for taking a rare collection of Gildon's work and editing it so it is legible and accessible to online users all over the globe. When this project is completed, users can obtain it from 18th Connect, an online database for 18th century scholarship. Because I will need to know basic coding to edit, Nowka had me create an account on Code Academy, an online course that teaches user how to code. 

I feel privileged to have the chance to work with Nowka not only because he is one the nicest and most intelligent faculty members at Salem State, but he had the same internship as me when he was undergraduate. Only back then, he was  working on the premiere electronic literary journal! 


Kirschendbaum, Matthew. “What Is Digital Humanities and What's Doing It Doing In English  
         Departments?" Debates In Digital Humanities. Ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: 
         University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 3-10. Print.