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Women Writers: Intertextual Networks

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Women Writers: Intertextual Networks data is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please visit our License page for a synopsis on sharing and adapting these materials.

The Women Writers Project maintains its source data in XML format, using markup drawn from the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines.

The website indexes include datasets in JSON and XML formats. This XML serialization is not TEI. Rather, the encoding uses the XML representation of JSON described in the XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1 specification.

For more information about how the WW:IN data was created, see the Methods page.

Bibliography

The Intertextual Networks bibliography is maintained in TEI XML. A public copy of the TEI bibliography is available. Note that not all bibliography entries may be referenced. To determine which entries are referenced and how, you will need to cross-reference them with the excerpted Women Writers Online documents, or use data compiled from the Bibliography index.

Datasets compiled from the Bibliography index are also available. These datasets split the TEI bibliography entries into their atomic component entries. They also incorporate information about how each entry is referenced in Women Writers Online. As such, bibliography entries are only included (A) if they are referenced in WWO, or (B) if they represent works published in WWO.

  • TEI bibliography
  • Full datasets for the Bibliography index, sorted by
    • the last name of the primary contributor (JSON or XML)
    • the title of the work (JSON or XML)
    • the number of references to the work in Women Writers Online (JSON or XML)

Intertextual Gestures in Women Writers Online

The Women Writers Online (WWO) corpus comprises over 400 works written by or attributed to women, which were originally published between 1526 and 1850. Each document in the corpus is transcribed and encoded in a TEI XML format. For more information on the format, see the Women Writers Project editorial principles and documentation on our TEI customization.

As part of the Women Writers: Intertextual Networks publication process, WWO documents are condensed so that they contain only metadata from the teiHeader, structural markup such as divisions and page beginnings, and the intertextual gestures themselves. Each gesture is marked with an XML element and identifier, as well as an attribute containing the identifiers of the bibliography entries for the works being referenced. Other information from the bibliography is not included. A compressed set of the excerpted WWO documents is available.

Datasets compiled from the Intertextual Gestures index are also available. These datasets combine information about each encoded gesture in every WWO document published so far. In this format, each gesture retains very basic information about its containing document, as well as information from the referenced bibliographic entries.