Published April 14, 2023 | Version v2
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ERRATAS database of editorial principles and practices in printed editions of historical correspondence

  • 1. University of Eastern Finland
  • 2. University of Helsinki
  • 3. University of Turku

Description

The ERRATAS database is the primary output of the ERRATAS project, which surveyed all the sources of the Corpora of Early English Correspondence (CEEC-400) in order to investigate their editorial principles and practices. These sources are mostly printed editions of English historical correspondence.

The data in the ERRATAS database consists of surveys of:

  • editorial principles (explicit statements or anything resembling such);
  • editorial practices (textual features that can be found in the edited texts);
  • editorial work (evidence of contributors other than the stated editor(s)).

This updated release of the database is in the form of two MS Excel files, one of which includes data entry forms for surveying editorial principles and practices.

This release also comes with documentation, in the form of three pdf files:

  • A manual to the database, containing a brief history of the project, and a section demonstrating with several graphs what kinds of data can be extracted from the dataset;

and two documents which place the database into the context of its development, but more importantly facilitate the application of the ERRATAS method to survey further material:

Related material:

Version history:

26.5.2020 Version 0.9 – Database unfinished (due to coronavirus restrictions). The current data has been checked twice. Material to be added in v1.0: database manual; database survey guidelines.

14.4.2023 Version 1.1 – Database finished, after conversion to MS Excel. Dataset checked, corrected, amended, edited, and cleaned for release. Documentation created. Survey guidelines and data survey forms included in release.

Files

ERRATAS checklist v12.pdf

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplemented by
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.3855451 (DOI)
Other: 10.5281/zenodo.4134471 (DOI)

Funding

Research Council of Finland
Interfacing structured and unstructured data in sociolinguistic research on language change (STRATAS) / Consortium: STRATAS 293009