To make it easier to see when I’ve made updates to the instructions, I will highlight the changes in yellow<\/span>.<\/p>\n Past courses of mine have already created digital editions of Duffy’s poetry<\/a>. But if we are going to have confidence in our research, it’s critical that we make sure we have accurate versions of all of her poems.\u00a0 While we could simply compare a digital copy of the poem to the one on the page, maintaining the attention necessary to catch errors is difficult if you’re just glancing back and forth. We need to do something more to keep ourselves aware of the fine details of the text. To this end, we will each be preparing a digital edition of one of her books of poetry.<\/p>\n In addition to providing a better environment for careful attention, a marked-up edition provides us the chance to enrich the text. These enrichments can take the form of adding themes to the metadata, tagging all place and\/or person names, or identifying rhyme schemes in the different poems, as infrequent as they may be. If we work\u00a0consistently across all five volumes of the poetry in this process, we will be query our markup to highlight similarities and differences between\u00a0The World’s Wife<\/em> and the books that precede it.<\/p>\n Each of us will create a digital edition of one of Duffy’s first five volumes using XML and the TEI guidelines.<\/p>\nRationale<\/h2>\n
Nitty Gritty<\/h2>\n