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Rationale<\/h2>\n

As I’ve told you, my colleagues in ODH<\/a> have created a corpus of all the Peanuts<\/em> comics by harvesting data from GoComics.com. The GoComics team has created transcripts of what happens in the comics, which is tremendously helpful. But…it turns out they’re not always exactly correct. Just take a look at Schulz’s comic for 23 January 1952<\/a> and GoComics’s corresponding data transcript<\/code>:<\/p>\n

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Schroeder sits at the piano playing. Charlie Brown comes up to him and says, “Say, that’s sensational, Schroeder…what is it?” He looks to the reader confused as Schroeder replies, “Grasse Sonata fur das Hommer-Klavier” As Schroeder resumes his playing, Charlie Brown walks away. The latter says, “Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong around here!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So it’s close…but it’s maybe not close enough. There’s a lot of information that isn’t captured in this transcript: who the characters are, what music Schroeder is playing, the setting, what happens in which panel, or the McCloudian transitions across the gutters. And that’s just the first five things I thought to type!<\/p>\n

We can do better than this! Creating marked-up editions of Peanuts strips will provide us the chance to more accurately represent the strip, as well as enriching it in the specific ways that we care about: themes, gender roles, tagging person or place names, recording weather, and pretty much anything else you can imagine. Creating such editions is time-consuming and requires serious attention to detail. But the opportunities for research that we gain with this process makes it worth the investment. To paraphrase John A. Walsh<\/a>, encoding Peanuts<\/em> will “facilitate both close and distant reading strategies”<\/p>\n

Nitty Gritty<\/h2>\n

Each of us will markup one month of strips from each of the volumes we’re reading for class. That’s about 60 strips, when all is said and done. And then you’ll write a reflection on the project…because of course.<\/p>\n

Your marked-up strips will be due no later than Monday, 30 March by the beginning of class. Your reflection papers are due on Wednesday, 1 April by the beginning of class.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Get Oxygen<\/h3>\n

Download Oxygen XML Editor<\/a> and sign up for a free, 30-day trial. You will receive a license key via email and you will need to use it with your individual copy.<\/p>\n

Create the strip file<\/h3>\n

In Oxygen, open the strip template<\/a> from our repo and copy all of its text (Ctrl\/Cmd-A, then Ctrl\/Cmd-C). Then open a new document in Oxygen and paste the template (Ctrl\/Cmd-V) into it. Do NOT start editing the template itself.<\/p>\n

Name the file as follows: peanuts-[four-digit year]-[two-digit month]-[two-digit day].xml. For example, the frst strip, which is from 2 October 1950 would have the following filename: peanuts_1950_10_02.xml<\/code>.<\/p>\n

Save the file in the encoded-strips<\/code> folder in your local copy of the GitHub repo.<\/p>\n

Encode the strip<\/h3>\n

Encode the strip as follows. If you run into questions, be sure to refer to our “Peanuts Encoding Editorial Decisions<\/a>” document.<\/p>\n

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