Difference between revisions of "Athanasius Kircher Correspondence (AKC)"

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Correspondence in EMLO	Thanks to the collaboration with the Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) project, it's also possible to search directly on GATE some of the metadata of the whole correspondence (2,739 letters) recorded in EMLO.

The publication of Kircher's Correspondence is the primary goal of the project. Our first aim is transcribing all the letters within the 14 codices preserved in the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University; letters kept in other institutions will be added too. Each letter will be transcribed, commented and annotated with the help of GATE contributors. Annotation allows to univocally identify entities cited within the texts, such as names, places, works and so on; entities will have a dedicated page where users can acquire information about them.

The Athanasius Kircher Correspondence is a huge corpus of letters written and received by Athanasius Kircher during his whole life. From this page you can browse the correspondence through indexes and other research tools.

If you want to collaborate to the Athanasius Kircher Correspondence transcription project, you should ask for an account by using this form. We will create a username associated to your email address; then you will receive an email with a temporary random password that will allow you to log in to GATE.

To start your collaboration to this project, browse the ToDo section of this page. Before editing any page, please carefully read the Athanasius Kircher Correspondence transcription guidelines.

Full-text search

To search within the Kircher correspondence, use the following search module.

Metadata search

Today, the database contains metadata of 235 of 2,623 letters and it is constantly growing, thanks to the help of GATE users.

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Indexes

You can browse Years, Names and Places indexes of the Athanasius Kircher correspondence. Currently, these indexes include letters metadata only, so they don't list, e.g., cited names or cited works. If you want to perform a full-text search, you should use the search bar within this page.
By clicking on ►, you can expand the main index and sub-indexes of your interest; if you find a grey ►, it means no letters have been uploaded so far in that sub-index; by clicking on the index name, you will instead be redirect to that index special page, where you can find detailed information about how the entries have been structured.

► AKC Years

To do

Before editing any page, please carefully read the transcription guidelines for this project. In the following list you can find pages or letters to proofread or to transcribe.

► AKC Not proofread‎ (436 P)

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+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+| <center>[[File:Emlo logo.png|120px]] [[Athanasius_Kircher_Correspondence_metadata_(EMLO)|'''Correspondence in EMLO''']]</center> || Thanks to the collaboration with the [http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO)] project, it's also possible to search directly on GATE some of the metadata of the whole correspondence (2,739 letters) recorded in EMLO.
+|}
+The publication of Kircher's Correspondence is the primary goal of the project. Our first aim is transcribing all the letters within the 14 codices preserved in the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University; letters kept in other institutions will be added too. Each letter will be transcribed, commented and annotated with the help of GATE contributors. Annotation allows to univocally identify entities cited within the texts, such as names, places, works and so on; entities will have a dedicated page where users can acquire information about them.<br />
+The Athanasius Kircher Correspondence is a huge ''corpus'' of letters written and received by Athanasius Kircher during his whole life. From this page you can browse the correspondence through indexes and other research tools. <br />
+If you want to collaborate to the Athanasius Kircher Correspondence transcription project, you should ask for an account by [[Special:Contact|using this form]]. We will create a username associated to your email address; then you will receive an email with a temporary random password that will allow you to log in to GATE. <br />
+To start your collaboration to this project, browse the [[Athanasius Kircher Correspondence (AKC)#ToDo|ToDo]] section of this page. Before editing any page, please carefully read the [[AKC Transcription guidelines|Athanasius Kircher Correspondence transcription guidelines]].
+== Full-text search ==
+To search within the Kircher correspondence, use the following search module. <br />
+<div style="align:center"><inputbox>
+type=fulltext
+width=50
+break=no
+searchbuttonlabel=Search
+bgcolor=transparent
+searchfilter=incategory:AKC_Pages
+</inputbox>
+</div>
+== Metadata search ==
+Today, the database contains metadata of {{PAGESINCATEGORY:AKC Metadata}} of 2,623 letters and it is constantly growing, thanks to the help of GATE users.<br />
+{{Progress_bar|{{formatnum:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:AKC Metadata|all}}|R}}|total={{formatnum:2623|R}}}}<br />
+<br />
+{{#ask: [[Category:AKC Metadata]]
+ |?Has sender=Sender
+ |?Has recipient=Recipient
+ |?Has certain date=Date
+ |?Has language=Language
+ |format=datatables
+ |link=all
+ |headers=show
+ |mainlabel=Letter ID
+ |searchlabel=... further results
+ |class=sortable wikitable smwtable
+ |theme=bootstrap
+ |limit=1000
+}}
+<br>
 == Indexes ==
-In this section you can browse Years, Names and Places indexes of the Athanasius Kircher correspondence. Currently, these indexes include letters metadata only, so they don't list, e.g., cited names or cited works. If you want to perform a full-text search, you should use the search bar on the top right. <br />
+You can browse Years, Names and Places indexes of the Athanasius Kircher correspondence. Currently, these indexes include letters metadata only, so they don't list, e.g., cited names or cited works. If you want to perform a full-text search, you should use the search bar within [[Athanasius Kircher Correspondence (AKC)#Full-text search|this page]]. <br />
-By clicking on <span style="color:#0645AD;">►</span>, you can expand the main index and sub-indexes of your interest; if you find a grey <span style="color:#C0C0C0;">►</span>, it means no letters have been still uploaded in that sub-index; by clicking on the index name, you will instead redirect to that index special page, where you can find detailed information about how the entries have been structured. <br/>
+By clicking on <span style="color:#0645AD;">►</span>, you can expand the main index and sub-indexes of your interest; if you find a grey <span style="color:#C0C0C0;">►</span>, it means no letters have been uploaded so far in that sub-index; by clicking on the index name, you will instead be redirect to that index special page, where you can find detailed information about how the entries have been structured. <br/>
 <categorytree mode="pages" depth="0">AKC_Years</categorytree>
-<categorytree mode="pages" depth="0">AKC_Names</categorytree>
-<categorytree mode="pages" depth="0">AKC_Places</categorytree>
-== Transcription guidelines ==
+== To do ==
-To transcribe the letters we are following several simple rules, decided to produce standard transcriptions despite the number of people who are working within this project. <br />
+Before editing any page, please carefully read the [[AKC Transcription guidelines|transcription guidelines]] for this project.
-First of all we decided to do two kinds of transcription for each letter:
+In the following list you can find pages or letters to proofread or to transcribe. <br />
-* a diplomatic transcription, to reproduce the original structure and words spelling of the letter: within this transcription a small group of TEI tags will be used;
-* a reviewed transcription, where all the abbreviations and some other features of the original text will be regularized to ease the reading, the full text search and the semantic annotation too.
-=== Diplomatic transcription ===
-To do a diplomatic transcription of the letters, it has been implemented the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TEITags TEI Tags] extension devoloped within the [http://www.transcribe-bentham.da.ulcc.ac.uk/td/Transcribe_Bentham Transcribe Bentham Project] by Richard Davis. This extension allows the use of a group of TEI tags to give a minimal logical structure to the text and to highlight some text phenomena. <br/>
-The diplomatic transcription is performed within the [[Help:Wiki help#Page|Page namespace]]. <br/>
-Following there is a brief guide to use the tags.
-==== <nowiki><head></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><p></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><lb/></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><pb/></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><abbr></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><add></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><del></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><gap/></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><unclear></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><sic></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><underline></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><superscript></nowiki> ====
-==== <nowiki><note></nowiki> ====
-=== Reviewed transcription ===
+<categorytree mode="pages" depth="0" showcount="on">AKC Not proofread</categorytree>
-== To do ==
+__NOFACTBOX__
-At [[:Category:AKC_Not_proofread|this link]] you can find a list of pages or letters to proofread or to transcribe. If you want to contribute to this work, please [http://www.unigre.it/Archivio/contatta_archivio_it.php send us an email] and we will provide you with a personal account.
-[[Category:Help pages]]