The Rosarium Project. Building a digital collection on the genus Rosa using and the TEI
| Date | 08 August 2016 |
| Published date | 08 August 2016 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-01-2016-0001 |
| Pages | 209-222 |
| Author | Julia Rachel Tryon |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science,Librarianship/library management,Library technology,Records management & preservation,Information repositories |
The Rosarium Project
Building a digital collection on the genus
Rosa using <oXygen/>and the TEI
Julia Rachel Tryon
Phillips Memorial Library ⫹Commons, Providence College, Providence,
Rhode Island, USA
Abstract
Purpose – This paper aims to describe the Rosarium Project, a digital humanities project being
undertaken at the Phillips Memorial Library ⫹Commons of Providence College in Providence, Rhode
Island. The project focuses on a collection of English language non-ction writings about the genus
Rosa. The collection will comprise books, pamphlets, catalogs and articles from popular magazines,
scholarly journals and newspapers written on the rose published before 1923. The source material is
being encoded using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium’s P5 guidelines and the extensible
markup language (XML) editor software ⬍oXygen/⬎.
Design/methodology/approach – This paper outlines the Rosarium Project and describes its
workow. This paper demonstrates how to create TEI-encoded les for digital curation using the XML
editing software ⬍oXygen/⬎and the TEI Archiving Publishing and Access Service (TAPAS) Project.
The paper provides information on the purpose, scope, audience and phases of the project. It also
identies the resources – hardware, software and membership – needed for undertaking such a project.
Findings – This paper shows how straightforward it is to encode transcriptions of primary sources
using the TEI and XML editing software and to make the resulting digital resources available on the
Web.
Originality/value – This paper presents a case study of how a research project transitioned from
traditional printed bibliography to a web-accessible resource by capitalizing on the tools in the TEI
toolkit using specialized XML editing software. The details of the project can be a guide for librarians
and researchers contemplating digitally curating primary resources and making them available on the
Web.
Keywords Digital humanities, ⬍oXygen/⬎, Digital collections, Roses, TEI, Text encoding
Paper type Case study
The Rosarium Project will collect, highlight, digitally curate and bring to the Web
historical primary sources about the genus Rosa. The project focuses on non-ction
materials written about the rose in English from the sixteenth century up to 1923. These
resources will include books, pamphlets, ephemera and articles from popular
magazines, scholarly journals and newspapers. The digital texts – with their
accompanying images, a rose glossary and a bibliography – will be fully searchable on
the project’s own website. Researchers will be able to browse the books and articles,
search by subject, rose variety and color via drop-down menus or do a keyword search
of the whole collection. Users will have freely available online access to historical
documents about roses.
This paper discusses the project in its rst phase, including the project’s conception,
workow and required resources. Phase One is divided into three parts: research
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Received 13 January 2016
Revised 23 February 2016
Accepted 23 February 2016
DigitalLibrary Perspectives
Vol.32 No. 3, 2016
pp.209-222
©Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2059-5816
DOI 10.1108/DLP-01-2016-0001
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