Transcribing and Editing

The following instructions apply to transcriptions of news reports in the Wilde Trials International News Archive.

Template

Use the following template for transcribing news reports.

<html>
   <head>
      <title>PAPER TITLE - DAY, MONTH, DATE YEAR</title>
      <meta name="dc.date" content="YYYY-MM-DD"/>
      <meta name="dc.language" content=""/>
      <meta name="dc.publisher" content=""/>
      <meta name="dc.region" content=""/>
      <meta name="dc.region.city" content=""/>
      <meta name="dc.source.database" content=""/>
      <meta name="dc.source.facsimile" content=""/>
      <meta name="dc.source.url" content=""/>
   </head>
   <body>
      <div id="original" lang="">
         <p class="heading">LINE 1<br/>
   LINE 2</p>
         <p>This is a complete paragraph as [...] in a report.</p>
         <p class="signature">AUTHOR</p>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

Metadata

Enter the following metadata fields for each news report, following Dublin Core Standards.

dc.date

is the date the report was published. It must be formatted as shown.

dc.language

is the ISO code for the language of the report. It must be one of the following values. Additional language support can be added if necessary.

de

German

en

English

es

Spanish

fr

French

it

Italian

dc.publisher

is the title of the newspaper.

dc.region

is the country or other national entity where the report was published. Examples include France, Australia, Britain (not "British", not "England"), and Canada.

dc.region.city

is the city where the newspaper was published

dc.source.database

is the database source for the report.

dc.source.institution

is the institutional source for the report.

dc.source.facsimile

is the facsimile page of the report.

dc.source.url

is the url for the digital newspaper or for the institutional catalogue that holds the original print copies.

Content

Enter the text of the news report within body tags.

The body of each news report must include div id="original" lang="" and a corresponding /div tag. The value of the

lang

attribute must match the

content

of the

dc.language

meta tag.

The content includes automatically generated translations of non-English reports. We also use div tags to distinguish the original and translated content.

Headlines & Signatures & Omitted Text

Headlines are marked up in paragraph tags (p>...</p) with the class set to "heading". Normal paragraphs do not include a class.

Some news reports are signed. Those signatures are marked up in a paragraph with the class set to "signature".

In cases where there is one news column, but many different reports, you should just transcribe the reports related to the Wilde trials. Only use p class='omitted'></p to indicate if there is text that you have not excerpted in the middle of the selected news report. We are NO LONGER using [...] at the beginning and/or the ending of the report to show omitted text.

The only classes allowed on paragraph tags are

heading

signature

, and

omitted

Formatting

Preserve the paragraph breaks of the original news report.

Line breaks (br/) can be used inside paragraphs. They cannot be used outside of paragraphs or anywhere else.

There is no need to respect the line breaks of the original news report, except in the case of headlines and short letters, telegrams or lines of poetry/literature. The new line should begin with a break: (br/)

For long letters, passages from literature, or testimony use paragraph breaks with paragraph tags: (p)

Transcriptions

Use Unicode (UTF-8) consistently on all files to ensure the accented characters are encoded correctly.

Transcribe everything in the news report, even if misspelled. Preserve original capitalization and punctuation. Note that it is not required to format italics or font changes, but text may be marked up as italicized (i>...</i) or bolded (b>...</b).

Use the M dash for dashes.

For English-language newspapers, use straight quotation marks (" "). For French-language newspapers, use guillemets (« »). For German-language newspapers, use („ “). For Spanish and Italian-language newspapers, follow the practice of the newspapers, which may use quotation marks or guillemets.

For ampersands (&) in an xml document, including in a URL, type "&amp"

Omitted/Unreadable Text

Any text that is unreadable in the original report is indicated with square brackets and three periods:

[...]

. Spaces are not allowed inside the square brackets or between the periods.