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new web front-end for the Frankenstein Variorum project, working with Astro & React
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Rendering handwritten notes in Thomas + linking to Morgan Facsimile Pages #5

Closed ebeshero closed 1 year ago

ebeshero commented 1 year ago

Mary Shelley wrote some handwritten notes in her Thomas copy about how she would revise the novel eventually. Sometimes she wrote comments describing a passage as "bad" or "impossible."

Let's look at the page images from the Morgan Library to see: https://www.themorgan.org/collection/frankenstein/thumbs

ebeshero commented 1 year ago

Related issue: https://github.com/FrankensteinVariorum/fv-postCollation/issues/37

ebeshero commented 1 year ago

@Yuying-Jin

ebeshero commented 1 year ago

We should really link out to the Thomas page images when these 14 notes show up! https://www.themorgan.org/collection/frankenstein/thumbs How should we incorporate the links so we can pull them into the JSON file?

<note resp="#MWS" source="https://www.themorgan.org/collection/frankenstein/20"/>
ebeshero commented 1 year ago

Thinking this through, I think I should add this information in the postCollation pipeline in P6-P2 when the entire reconstructed edition files are available. This way we don't disturb our collation process with it (it's too late to add it there now.)

ebeshero commented 1 year ago

I realized looking at this page: https://www.themorgan.org/collection/frankenstein/16 that we should point to Thomas images whenever we have an <add>, <del>, or <note>. But this is a much bigger task.

ebeshero commented 1 year ago

In Thomas there are:

We would have 133 URLs to look up. We're not really sure how stable the Morgan's URLs for their page images are, but the ability to check the pages would probably be welcome.

ebeshero commented 1 year ago

In case we decide to do this, I finished preparing a standoff list file to help us add URLs with this commit: https://github.com/FrankensteinVariorum/fv-postCollation/commit/7be2ad5be81b4aea49666f3f272cc7a33eab5e83

ebeshero commented 1 year ago

Ultimately we did not record the links in a separate XML file, but scraped them with a JS library for the interface, working with the page numbers available in the file.