See the legal page for information about republication. The recommended citation for this document can be found below (in the standalone XML version).
Born digital.
Joey Takeda is the Technical Director of
Mary Chapman is the Director of
See the Biographical Timeline for biographical information on Winnifred Eaton.
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
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.
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.
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.