Tips and best practices
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Research strategies for locating reviews
- Check [DPLA http://dp.la/]
- Check [WorldCat worldcat.org]
Encoding strategies
- You can use elements that aren't supplied by the interface, but you should do so according to the project's principles; use elements that help with tracking the things we are interested in without adding in elements just because you can
- You should use the long-s character (U+017F) but you don't need to worry about most other typographic details
- If you have a reception item that is unclear enough that you can't be confident in encoding it, bring it to a meeting
- If you flag a reception item, fill in a note in both the interface and the tracking spreadsheet explaining why it is flagged; use the flag function for serious issues with items or cases where further discussion is needed before the items can be published
- The interface will give you buttons for the following elements:
- <head>: use for headings
: paragraph
- <lg>: line group—use to wrap around poems or selections from poems
- <l>: line—use for each individual line of poetry
- <italic>: use for italicized text; can be used in combination with other phrase-level elements as appropriate
- <persName>: names of persons—note that some publishers are also persons, and should be encoded in <persName>
- <placeName>: names of places
- <quote>: use for quoted materials—this element will also display with quotation marks; if you have quotation marks in your text that are not part of a quote, you should type them in
- <title>: use for titles of texts; note that these are often abridged in the reception items—titles need not be exact to be encoded in <title>
- You can also use:
- <note>: use for textual notes supplied by reviewers
- <anchor>: use to mark the place in the reception item that a specific <note> is referring to
- <rs>: use with @type of "properAdjective" for proper adjectives
- You should not use
- <name>
- <said>
- <emph>
- <mcr>
- elements for recording bibliographic information, such as <bibl> or <docImprint>
- elements for page breaks or metawork
Using the interface
- To use the search box or the "Show records" box, do not hit "Enter"—just click outside the search box and it should work.
- The same principle applies to showing more than ten records; enter the number you want to display and then click outside the box. 100 is the maximum you can display.
- You can't go back to browse after you've searched for a record or changed the number of items; instead refresh the entire page.
- If you're trying to navigate to a specific reception item, change the number of records from 10 to 100, then do a keyword search for the author's last name, hitting "next" as needed to get to the page with the author you're looking for.
- The colored boxes indicate the format of the reception item; you can mouse over them to see the format