The Digital Temple: A Documentary Edition

FAIN: RQ-50468-10

Northern Michigan University (Marquette, MI 49855-2818)
Robert Whalen (Project Director: November 2009 to July 2013)

Preparation of a digital documentary edition of 17th-century poet George Herbert's English poems. (24 months)

The Digital Temple is a documentary edition of seventeenth-century poet George Herbert's English poems. The project's objectives are to bring together the primary materials essential to the study of Herbert's verse; to preserve the resulting database in a way that will ensure maximum flexibility, portability, and longevity; and to enhance access through a robust user interface. The final product will include complete diplomatic and modern-spelling transcriptions of three artifacts linked to high-resolution direct-to-digital scans; critical apparatus including notes and glosses, critical, textual, and technical introductions; and a user interface facilitating efficient navigation and querying of these materials. The fine granularity of the encoding -- enabling users to perform sophisticated search queries using either the software of their choice or that built directly into the interface -- will make The Digital Temple a powerful research tool.

Associated Products

The Digital Temple (Web Resource)
Title: The Digital Temple
Author: George Herbert
Abstract: Subtitled "A Documentary Edition of George Herbert’s English Verse," the Digital Temple offers diplomatic and modern-spelling transcriptions of Williams MS. Jones B62, Bodleian MS. Tanner 307, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, first edition (STC 13183, Folger Shakespeare Library copy). These may be viewed, alongside digital images of the sources, either as discrete witnesses in their entirety, or as individual poems in parallel display, the latter with a full set of critical annotations and textual notes.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://digitaltemple.rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/
Primary URL Description: This is the subscription website where it is published.

Prizes

Outstanding Academic Titles of 2013
Date: 1/1/2014
Organization: American Library Association's Choice Magazine
Abstract: Every year in the January issue, in print and online, Choice publishes a list of Outstanding Academic Titles that were reviewed during the previous calendar year. This list reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice and brings with it the recognition of the academic library community. The list is quite selective: it contains approximately ten percent of some 7,000 works reviewed in Choice each year. Choice editors base their selections on the reviewer's evaluation of the work, the editor's knowledge of the field, and the reviewer's record. The list was known as Outstanding Academic Books until 2000. The new name reflects an increase in reviews of electronic products and Internet sites.

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