Guidelines
Martin Stuber, Lukas Heinzmann
As a data-centred edition platform, structural data and edition texts are equally important for République des Lettres. The systematic linking of voluminous text editions, digitised sources and decadelong compiled metadata (their bibliographical is based on two autoptically compiled fundamental volumes) is one of République des Lettres' characteristics.
The République des Lettres data model reflects this double alignment. It is based on three documents:
- Conventions on structural data: Rules on recording and describing entities (persons, places, publications, etc.)
- Edition model: Rules on the transcription and annotation of source texts
- Information sources: A list of digital and printed information sources serving as a basis for the research on entities
The documentation is updated and expanded regularly, with more comprehensive modifications being assigned with a higher version number. Due to the continuous processing, the relationship between individual data records or edition texts and versions of the used models is loose.
This view always represents the latest version of the publication. There is no direct access to earlier versions (although they can be fully reconstructed by Git versioning).