Open Editions Built For and With Students
 

Experimenting

OCR found on Archive.org (this was after looking through many digitized versions of the story)
Using notion to create a side-by-side transcription area (page images saveable from within the digitized book on archive.org)
version history of Notion pages very helpful!
Thinking about how to create a single-text book (this is likely the best way to treat editions so they each have their own metadata and contributors and such)
The OCR had line breaks and those are retained as I paste into pressbooks
It should really have been “Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood”–not sure if this can be changed like the slug for wordpress posts can be?
Archive.org metadata on the digitized version of Lang’s Blue Fairy Book led me here. Microsoft sponsored the digitization of this particular book. This is something I want to explore more with this project.
Reminding myself of what Ashliman says about the Perrault version. He does say he got it from a slightly earlier edition of Lang’s book (1891), but I looked at editions from 1889 and 1920 and neither have the moral at the end that Ashliman includes. Did he include it because it’s in Lang’s source (the 1697 edition of Perrault’s text)?
in the past, I put all versions I found on a single page so students could scroll. Should I do that again, or should each version be a separate “book”? I’m leaning toward the latter. I only have one here, but you could easily open two up in two different browser windows to look at them side by side.
Imported my edition into Zotero. The metadata sucks so far…b/c I haven’t done enough with it. I need to think a lot more about this.
experimented with exporting from pressbooks. The pdf looks great (watermarked b/c I’m using the pressbooks.com version, but I don’t mind that). I also exported it and imported into my course website built with wordpress.
I just don’t think making editions in WordPress is the right way to go if we want careful metadata about each edition. BUT…if we’re only going to spend a short time in pressbooks, maybe a collection of editions could be managed. I’m just not sure the book’s metadata can accurately reflect what things are quite yet.

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