Encoding

All of our documents are encoded using a small subset of the Text Encoding Initiative P5 schema. A fuller account of our encoding practices is given in our documentation. Primarily, we have encoded the structure of the texts (divisions, sections, et cetera), page beginnings, quotations, and any variants of Winnifred Eaton’s name. While later phases of the project may involve more rigorous encoding protocols—-like tagging distinct speakers, frequency and directionality of speech acts, settings, images, and marginalia—-our initial goal was to encode the texts to make them readily available and easily readable for those interested in Eaton’s prolific career.

Processing

All of our processing relies on open-source and open-access technologies. We follow the Endings Principles for Digital Longevity, and thus all of our pages are built statically, which means that there is no dependence on server side processing.

All of our processing and source code is open-source and available through our Github repository.

All of the pages in the archive are valid XHTML5 and use CSS3 and minimal vanilla Javascript (ES6). All pages should display similarly across any modern browser.

Search

The WEA has served as a flagship project for the development of staticSearch: a completely client-side search engine build specifically for digital edition and written by Martin Holmes and Joey Takeda. It is currently in active development; the code and documentation can be found on Github.

Documentation

All of the technical and encoding documentation for the WEA can be found here. This documentation—written entirely within our TEI ODD file (One Document Does It All)—provides instructions for how to build the WEA site locally as well as outlines our encoding practices.