Principles for encoding

General Principles for Cultures of Reception Encoding

• The Cultures of Reception data is designed to support a precisely defined strand of research, focused on practices of: citation, quotation, and evaluation.

• We are also tracking certain cultural categories—placehood, gender, race, nationhood, claims regarding literary value—as they manifest in a transatlantic reviewing culture.

• Other features not germane to these research principles can be omitted from the markup.