Factsheet

Resource reviewed
Title Digital Austin Papers
Editors Andrew Torget; Debbie Liles
URI https://digitalaustinpapers.org
Publication Date 2016
Date of last access 14.03.2024
Reviewer
Name orcid-icon Sander, Ruth
Affiliation Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Place Berlin
Email ruth.sander@bbaw.de
Documentation
Bibliographic description
Is it easily possible to describe the project bibliographically along the schema “responsible editors, publishing/hosting institution, year(s) of publishing”?
no
Contributors
Are the contributors (editors, institutions, associates) of the project fully documented?
yes
Contacts
Does the project list contact persons?
no
Selection
Is the selection of materials of the project explicitly documented?
yes
Reasonability of the selection
Is the selection by and large reasonable?
yes
Archiving of data
Does the documentation include information about the long term sustainability of the basic data (archiving of the data)?
yes
Aims
Are the aims and purposes of the project explicitly documented?
yes
Methods
Are the methods employed in the project explicitly documented?
yes
Data model
Does the project document which data model (e.g. TEI) has been used and for what reason?
yes
Help
Does the project offer help texts concerning the use of the project?
yes
Citation
Does the project supply citation guidelines (i.e. how to cite the project or a part of it)?
no
Completion
Does the editon regard itself as a completed project (i.e. not promise further modifications and additions)?
yes
Institutional curation
Does the project provide information about institutional support for the curation and sustainability of the project?
no
Contents
Previous edition
Has the material been previously edited (in print or digitally)?
yes
Materials used
Does the edition make use of these previous editions?
yes
Introduction
Does the project offer an introduction to the subject-matter (the author(s), the work, its history, the theme, etc.) of the project?
yes
Bibliography
Does the project offer a bibliography?
no
Commentary
Does the project offer a scholarly commentary (e.g. notes on unclear passages, interpretation, etc.)?
no
Contexts
Does the project include or link to external resources with contextual material?
yes
Images
Does the project offer images of digitised sources?
no
Image quality
Does the project offer images of an acceptable quality?
not applicable
Transcriptions
Is the text fully transcribed?
yes
Text quality
Does the project offer texts of an acceptable quality (typos, errors, etc.)?
yes
Indices
Does the project feature compilations indices, registers or visualisations that offer alternative ways to access the material?
no
Types of documents
Which kinds of documents are at the basis of the project?
Papers, Charters, Letters
Document era
What era(s) do the documents belong to?
Early modern, Modern
Subject
Which perspective(s) do the editors take towards the edited material? How can the edition be classified in general terms?
History
Spin-Offs
Does the project offer any spin-offs?
Mobile
Access modes
Browse by
By which categories does the project offer to browse the contents?
Authors, Documents, Dates, Persons, Places, Other: sentiment
Simple search
Does the project offer a simple search?
yes
Advanced search
Does the project offer an advanced search?
yes
Wildcard search
Does the search support the use of wildcards?
no
Index
Does the search offer an index of the searched field?
not applicable
Suggest functionalities
Does the search offer autocompletion or suggest functionalities?
no
Help texts
Does the project offer help texts for the search?
yes
Aims and methods
Audience
Who is the intended audience of the project?
Scholars, Interested public
Typology
Which type fits best for the reviewed project?
Diplomatic edition
Critical editing
In how far is the text critically edited?
None
XML
Is the data encoded in XML?
yes
Standardized data model
Is the project employing a standardized data model (e.g. TEI)?
yes
Types of text
Which kinds or forms of text are presented?
Diplomatic transcription
Technical accessability
Persistent identification
Are there persistent identifiers and an addressing system for the edition and/or parts/objects of it and which mechanism is used to that end?
Persistent URLs
Interfaces
Are there technical interfaces like OAI-PMH, REST etc., which allow the reuse of the data of the project in other contexts?
None
Open Access
Is the edition Open Access?
yes
Accessability of the basic data
Is the basic data (e.g. the XML) of the project accessible for each part of the edition (e.g. for a page)?
yes
Download
Can the entire raw data of the project be downloaded (as a whole)?
yes
Reuse
Can you use the data with other tools useful for this kind of content?
yes
Declaration of rights
Are the rights to (re)use the content declared?
yes
License
Under what license are the contents released?
CC-BY-SA
Personnel
Editors Liles, Debbie
Torget, Andrew J
Programmers Brumfield, Ben W.
Brumfield, Sara Carlstead
Ellis, Jason
Hicks, William
Mues, Stephen
Contributors Dalziel, Karin
Kilgore, Deborah
Sinclair, Cameron