COLLABORATION SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES FOR THE JOHNSONS DICTIONARY

COLLABORATION SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES FOR THE JOHNSON’S DICTIONARY ONLINE PROJECT University Of Central Florida Beth Rapp Young Carmen Faye Mathes Amy Larner Giroux William Dorner Connie Harper Abigail Moreshead

Collaboration Successes and Challenges v. Source Materials – Beth Rapp Young, UCF v. Image Creation & File Management – Abigail Moreshead, UCF v. Quotations Research – Carmen Faye Mathes, University of Regina v. Digital Markup – Will Dorner, UCF v. Automation – Amy Larner Giroux, UCF v. Database & Interface – Connie Harper, UCF

Obtaining Source Materials Beth Rapp Young, UCF beth. young@ucf. edu Challenges Collaborator / Solution Author portraits use restrictions, legal jurisdiction, indemnification, estate questions, who defines 'research' purpose? General Counsel; Dean's Office; Library; Artstor; NGA. gov / We chose another portrait Facsimile images use restrictions, technology failures, budget/personnel limitations ISU and UF / Libraries will create facsimiles from their collections Transcription OCR limitations, clouded copyright, high costs of private transcription LEME University of Toronto / Donated TEI transcription that we are updating (also legacy crowdsourcing; UNLV-created OCR transcriptions)

Image Creation & File Management Abigail Moreshead, UCF abigail. moreshead@ucf. edu Challenges Collaborator / Solution Image creation Cropping facsimile page images volunteer opp. for students (short term)/work into 43, 000 individual word with programming students (long term) images File tracking and storage Creating efficient workflow/finding free file storage solution Training and queries Conducting volunteer training Weekly face-to-face trainings and labs when on protocols; responding to possible/training materials in online course Abigail Moreshead tech issues/queries as they shell/email correspondence btw. volunteers and arise team members Spreadsheets to track volunteer assignments /Microsoft One. Drive access

Researching Quotations Carmen Faye Mathes, University of Regina carmen. mathes@uregina. ca Approach Pros Cons Single Author More efficient; less room for error, especially for student researchers Monotonous and boring; abstracts research from actual archive; distances quotations researchers from overall project timeline and goals Letter by Letter (i. e. "Holistic" approach) Sense of ownership over discoveries; works better with production timeline and goals; keeps research grounded in archive More room for error; must depend on non-expert students to make judgements when collaborating

Digital Markup Will Dorner, UCF william. dorner@ucf. edu • What a digital edition needs • Transcription • Character encoding • Tagset • Undergraduate volunteer contributions • LEME (University of Toronto) provided complete transcription/encoding, but created challenges • Inconsistent markup • Uncertain or erroneous foreign character encoding • Massive filesize • Reconciliation of LEME text with previous content and project goals • Updates to the tagset as project progresses

Automation Amy Larner Giroux, UCF Identify amy. giroux@ucf. edu Split De-Warp Delineate

Architecture Connie Harper, UCF connie. harper@ucf. edu • Linux, Apache, My. SQL, PHP, Java. Script • e. Xist-db, XSL • XML markup is stored directly in e. Xist-db • API and search queries through e. Xist-db • My. SQL for the login and statistics. Also for some extra search and multiple spelling lookups. • Front end is simple HTML, PHP, bootstrap and javascript

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