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Names and The Double’s Existence

May 8, 2022 / Elena Vasileva / Leave a comment

At the moment of publication of this post, Russia continues its unprovoked war against Ukraine. The horrific crimes against the Ukrainian people has happened every day for over two months. It is not and cannot be forgotten or ignored as we research texts in Russian. One of the basic yet pointed questions about The Double … Continue reading Names and The Double’s Existence

A name or not a name? Tagging names in Dostoevsky

August 18, 2021 / Elena Vasileva / 1 Comment

One of the TEI manuals that we have been using to teach ourselves this encoding language states that different types of names are easily discernable in a text because they usually are proper nouns. Well, Dostoevsky offers his own take on what names are and how future DH scholars are to trace them. The element … Continue reading A name or not a name? Tagging names in Dostoevsky

Tagging Speech in Dvoinik

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021 / Braxton Boyer / 1 Comment

In our most recent blogpost, “Encoding Dostoevsky,” you read that one of the first elements of Dvoinik that we decided to tag (apart from purely structural components like paragraphs) was speech. At the time, this seemed like a fairly straightforward endeavor -- how hard can talking be, right? -- but in hindsight this may have … Continue reading Tagging Speech in Dvoinik

Encoding Dostoevsky

August 5, 2021August 8, 2021 / Katherine Bowers / 2 Comments

One of the central aspects of our methodology in the project at present is encoding Dostoevsky’s novels. Here “encoding” means tagging using XML tags (XML = extendable markup language) following the TEI guidelines (TEI = Text Encoding Initiative). The TEI has created a massive, thousands of pages long guide to best practices in tagging and … Continue reading Encoding Dostoevsky

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