Maya Bielinski

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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems–the digital object

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LandingPage

The landing page for the digital object (which will hopefully be mounted online soon, and available through the Queen’s library catalogue).

After a bit of a search-around for a digital edition framework to help me mount the W. D. Jordan Special Collections copy of Lewis Carroll’s Phantasmagoria and Other Poems online, I came across this javascript application that mimics the functionality of a book. I customized the app, loaded in our images, altered the landing page to include the covers of the book, created a linked-up ‘table of contents,’  and slapped it all into a Twitter Bootstrap site that also includes (TEI-adherent) textual and (Emily Murphy-authored) extra-textual material.

Murph and I had very specific design goals for the object: we wanted a simple, clean, and intuitive layout that represented as closely as possible a reader’s engagement with the material edition. This ix-nayed scrolling layouts that vivisect the book by presenting the object more than once on a page. We wanted a visually cohesive object. The result is what you see below.

OpenBook

When a user clicks on the book, the booklet.js app is revealed. Here’s the inside cover of Phantasmagoria, with the advertisement for Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The ‘Contents’ sidebar, on hover-over, reveals a linked-up index of the poems. Hovering over the left or right edges of the book reveals a peek at the next pages in the book, and a simple click in this area of the representation turns the page (with an attractive, but hopefully not too distracting, animation).

TheTrystyng

Here’s the first page of Canto I of Phantasmagoria (navigated to from the sidebar).

TheTrystyngInfo

The javascript application allows for extra-textual information to be included with each page, which is revealed when a user hovers over the ‘i’ in the bottom right corner of the page image.

Footer

Emily and I have also included contextual information on the site: an introductory and historical essay, some information about the physical object, and a statement that outlines the reasons behind our various design choices.

Digital Edition Framework or Boilerplate?

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I’m working with Emily Murphy (who organized THATCamp Queensu 2013 with me) to image, transcribe, encode, and provide annotations for a Queen’s University Special Collections copy of the first edition of Lewis Carroll’s Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (check out this edition of the text, or the Gutenberg.org edition, which are in the public domain). It’s a charming text, and the Library’s copy is in good shape.

phantasmagoria

I’m looking for a framework that will allow us to publish our digital edition online. I love TEI Boilerplate (the main site seems to be down at the time of posting, but the source code is still available on Grant L. Simpson’s GitHub), but I’m looking for a something that allows me to load up images of the text we’ve encoded, and connect extra-textual critical apparatuses to the images and transcription. In an ideal world the whole thing would be easily navigable and searchable. I’ve just learned about the TEICHI framework, which I am currently looking into. Any other resources I should know about?