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Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence

Published
2017-09
Issue editors
Ulrike Henny-Krahmer; Frederike Neuber; Philipp Steinkrüger (managing); Bernhard Assmann (technical); Ulrike Henny-Krahmer (technical); Frederike Neuber (technical)

Reviewed resource

Title
Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence
Published
2008-2017
Last accessed
2016-07-19

People

Editor

  • Robert McNamee

Questionnaire

Reviewing criteria

General information

Can the text collection be identified in terms similar to traditional bibliographic descriptions (title, responsible editors, institution, date(s) of publication, identifier/address)? cf. Catalogue 1.1

Answer Yes

Are the contributors (editors, institutions, associates) of the project documented? cf. Catalogue 1.3

Answer Yes

Is contact information given? cf. Catalogue 1.4

Answer Yes

Aims

Is there a description of the aims and contents of the text collection? cf. Catalogue 2.1

Answer Yes

What is the purpose of the text collection? cf. Catalogue 2.2

Answer research, teaching

What kind of research does the collection allow to conduct primarily? cf. Catalogue 3.1.8

Answer qualitative

How does the text collection classify itself (e.g. in its title or documentation)? cf. Catalogue 2.3

Answer collection, (option)

To which field(s) of research does the text collection contribute? cf. Catalogue 2.2

Answer history, studies, philosophy, studies, (option)

Content

What era(s) do the texts belong to? cf. Catalogue 2.5

Answer modern, modern

What languages are the texts in? cf. Catalogue 2.5

Answer english, french, german, greek, italian, latin, portuguese, russian, spanish, swedish, (option)

What kind of texts are in the collection? cf. Catalogue 2.5

Answer works, essays, records, papers, (option)

What kind of information is published in addition to the texts? cf. Catalogue 2.5

Answer commentary, material, bibliography

Composition

Are the principles and decisions regarding the design of the text collection, its composition and the selection of texts documented? cf. Catalogue 3.1.1-3.1.3

Answer No

What selection criteria have been chosen for the text collection? cf. Catalogue 3.1

Answer epoch, (option)

How large is the text collection in number of texts/records? cf. Catalogue 3.1.4

Answer gt1000

How large is the text collection in number of tokens? cf. Catalogue 3.1.4

Answer (option)

Does the text collection have identifiable sub-collections or components? cf. Catalogue 3.1.5

Answer Yes

acquisition

Answer Does the text collection record or transcribe the textual data for the first time?

Has the quality of the data (transcriptions, metadata, annotations, etc.) been checked? cf. Catalogue 3.1.7

Answer Yes

Considering aims and methods of the text collection, how would you classify it further? For definitions please consider the help-texts. cf. Catalogue 3.1.8

Answer corpus

Data modelling

How are the textual sources represented in the digital collection? cf. Catalogue 3.2.1

Answer transcription, text, (option)

In which basic format are the texts encoded? cf. Catalogue 3.2.4

Answer html

With what information are the texts further enriched? cf. Catalogue 3.2.2

Answer annotations

How are the annotations linked to the texts themselves? cf. Catalogue 3.2.2

Answer embedded

What kind of metadata are included in the text collection? cf. Catalogue 3.2.3

Answer descriptive, administrative

On which level are the metadata included? cf. Catalogue 3.2.2

Answer collection, parts, texts

What kind of data/metadata/annotation schemas are used for the text collection? cf. Catalogue 3.2.4

Answer (option)

Which standards for text encoding, metadata and annotation are used in the text collection? cf. Catalogue 3.2.4

Answer (option)

Provision

Is the textual data accessible in a source format (e.g. XML, TXT)? cf. Catalogue 4.1

Answer No

Can the entire raw data of the project be downloaded (as a whole)? cf. Catalogue 4.2

Answer No

Are there technical interfaces which allow the reuse of the data of the text collection in other contexts? cf. Catalogue 4.2

Answer (option)

Besides the textual data, does the project provide analytical data (e.g. statistics) to download or harvest? cf. Catalogue 4.3

Answer No

Can you use the data with other tools useful for this kind of content? cf. Catalogue 4.4

Answer No

User interface

Does the text collection have a dedicated user interface designed for the collection at hand in which the texts of the collection are represented and/or in which the data is analyzable? cf. Catalogue 5.1

Answer Yes

user_interface_sub

Answer From your point of view, is the interface of the text collection clearly arranged and easy to navigate so that the user can quickly identify the purpose, the content and the main access methods of the resource?

Preservation

Does the text collection provide sufficient documentation about the project in general as well as about the aims, contents and methods of the text collection? cf. Catalogue 6.1

Answer Yes

Is the text collection Open Access? cf. Catalogue 6.2

Answer No

rights

Answer Not answered

Are there persistent identifiers and an addressing system for the text collection and/or parts/objects of it and which mechanism is used to that end? cf. Catalogue 6.3

Answer DOI

Does the text collection supply citation guidelines? cf. Catalogue 6.3

Answer Yes

Does the documentation include information about the long term sustainability of the basic data (archiving of the data)? cf. Catalogue 6.4

Answer No

Does the project provide information about institutional support for the curation and sustainability of the project? cf. Catalogue 6.4

Answer Yes

Is the text collection completed? cf. Catalogue 6.4

Answer No