This post exists in support of my C19 Americanists talk of April 2012. Below the cut: link-lists for transcription; text encoding; software aids; conversion to web, search, and other niceties; and (parts of the) community.
Transcription
- Study Guide: Colonial American Handwriting (Laura Arnold Leibman)
- List of nineteenth-century books on penmanship
- Script Tutorials (BYU)
- Palaeography: Reading Old Handwriting 1500–1800, A Practical Online Tutorial (TNA/UK)
- English Handwriting 1500–1700, an online course (CERES)
- Scottish Handwriting, sixteenth through eighteenth centuries (NRS)
- German Sütterlin, especially a comparison page of letter forms (Peter Dörling)
- French palaeography to 1789 (Eric Camille Voirin)
- Guillermina Ramírez Montes, Manuscritos novohispanos: Ejercicios de lectura, Mexico City, 1990 (Worldcat record)
- Mellon Summer Institutes in Vernacular Paleography (Newberry)
Text Encoding
- What is XML and Why Should Humanities Scholars Care? (David J. Birnbaum)
- Introduction to XML for Text (Kevin S. Hawkins)
- Resources for Teaching and Learning (WWP)
- Self-Study: Introducing XML and Markup (James Cummings)
- TEI P5 Guidelines contents
Software Aids
- oXygen XML Editor
- Transcription Tool List (Ben Brumfield)
- Juxta (NINES)
- Versioning Machine (MITH)
- Tübingen System of Text-processing Programs (TUSTEP)
- TextGrid Lab
- CollateX
- Sapheos
- TILE (MITH)
- TAPoR, including Image Markup Tool (UVic)
Conversion to Web, Search, and Other Niceties
- XTF (CDL)
- PhiloLogic (UChicago)
- SDPublisher
- XSL Stylesheets for TEI XML, and tips
- W3 Validator for XHTML, RSS/Atom, CSS, broken web links
- CSS 2.1 Tutorial (Mozilla); basic CSS2 tutorials (WDG)
- Browser Shots: cross-browser testing
(Parts of the) Community
- DH Answers
- Humanist listserv
- Digital Research Tools wiki
- Digital Humanities conference, THATcamp, etc.
- Journals
- Digital Humanities Quarterly
- Journal of Digital Humanities
- Journal of Electronic Publishing
- Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative
- Literary and Linguistic Computing
- Digital Humanities Now
- Digital Humanities Commons
- Digital Americanists