June 24, 2015

Trello Updates

We changed the color of the new "high-priority for publication" label to yellow to give it a stronger sense of urgency; I also reminded the group that we'll need to focus on texts in the first round, particularly proofing, to get our next publication set ready. Sarah Stanley pointed out that first-proofing is actually quite satisfying, because you find more to fix and because you know someone else will be looking at the text after you. I also reminded everyone that projects are now in their own Trello board, rather than in with Text Tracking.

Micro-training Sessions

In early/mid July, we'll be training two new work-study encoders and we'd like to give everyone who is interested the chance to lead micro-training sections, essentially becoming "the voice for how you do this thing," where "this thing" would be topics like encoding names or encoding direct speech. The general plan for materials we plan to cover is at: Training_Materials

If you're interested in claiming a topic, email me or stop by my desk. So far, Drama; Linking & Referencing; and Persons, Places. etc. have been spoken for. I'm still editing the training materials wiki page, so I'd also welcome any suggestions or comments you might have.

New Encoding: indirect speech in quotation marks

Liz brought in an example of indirect speech inside of quotation marks, which reads:

Dolly, blushing, replied—"She was ashamed to sing before a gentleman and lady."

We decided to change our encoding practices to add direct="false" for cases like this one to indicate that this is indirect speech. So, the new encoding is:

<persName>Dolly</persName>, blushing, replied—<said direct="false" rend="pre(“)post(”)">She was

<lb/>ashamed to sing before a gentleman and

<lb/>lady.</said>

Syd, Ashley, and I are going to work out a way to review our past encoding and update as needed; in the meantime, if you encounter a case like this one, please use the new encoding.