Legacy Trials: December 2014
Both of these trials were done to determine what platform was to be used to encode the above mentioned sections of A General History of the Pyrates. These were experiments done for various courses and work leading up to my M.A. Thesis. After using both the Versioning Machine V.4.0 and the UVic Image Mark-Up Tool, I chose the Versioning Machine primarily because I could encode all four editions to make a parallel-text edition, and because the UVic Image Mark-Up Tool, is as its name implies, is an image based platform. However, the UVic Image Mark-Up Tool does have the advantage of creating a type of index that lists the changes.
1. Versioning Machine V.4
This was my first attempt at encoding the Title Page using the
Versioning Machine V.4.0.
This trial uses the Text Encoding Intiative's (TEI)
Parallel Segmentation method. After
using this method
I discovered the Location-Referenced method, which is
what I decided
to use in thefinal iteration of
this digital critical edition.
2. UVic Image Mark-Up Tool
Click on the image to the right to see the original Title Page from the 1 st edition (1724),which is marked up with the UVic Image Mark-Up Tool to show where changes were
made in subsequent editions.