title: Learning from the Past: The Women Writers Project and Thirty Years of Humanities Text Encoding
abstract: In recent years, intensified attention in the humanities has been paid to data: to data modeling, data visualization, “big data”. The Women Writers Project has dedicated significant effort over the past thirty years to creating what Christoph Schöch calls “smart clean data”: a moderate-sized collection of early modern women’s writing, carefully transcribed and corrected, with detailed digital text encoding that has evolved in response to research and changing standards for text representation. B
journal: Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals