Posts tagged with 'TEI'

Alice Thornton describes many medical encounters and illnesses in her four Books, and some episodes are recounted and retold in later volumes. In December 2022, I wrote a blog post on Thornton and tra...

Dr Beatrice Alex is Senior Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures and the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research focuses on text mining and natural la...

As we head into the final six months of the project, we are marking this milestone by sharing the first one hundred pages of all four of Alice Thornton’s books so you can begin to explore her life and...

As we move into the final phase of our project, in collaboration with KDL, we have made some changes to the organisation of our website and the text viewer that we hope will enhance your reading exper...

We now have a search function for people and places! Links that go to our partial release are live, others show up but are currently disabled; however, you can now see who appears and how often across...

We now have a search function for people and places which means you can now see who appears, and how often, across all four books and find out what places Thornton was associated with over the course ...

In collaboration with our partners at King’s Digital Lab, we are delighted to announce that the first 22 pages of our text-encoded files of Alice Thornton’s Book of Remembrances (modernised and semi-d...

"The great blank space provided by the margins" was filled with many kinds of text and image in early modern manuscripts and printed books, and a number of recent and current digital projects reflect ...

In collaboration with our magnificent partners at King's Digital Lab, we are delighted to announce that we have transformed the first twenty-two pages of our text-encoded files of Alice Thornton’s Boo...

Our ultimate aim with this project is to produce an interactive and fully searchable edition of all four of Alice Thornton’s Books that will be available to read in both modernised and semi-diplomatic...

In an earlier post, I introduced some ways in which TEI markup and linkage can help the project to analyse patterns in Alice's writing and trace differences between her books, focusing on mentions of ...

Encoding highly complex texts like Alice Thornton's books is a process of interpretation in order to make explicit some of the underlying structures and patterns in a text. How does text encoding in T...