ERRATAS database of editorial principles and practices in printed editions of historical correspondence

<p>The ERRATAS database is the primary output of the ERRATAS project, which surveyed all the sources of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/CEEC/"><em>Corpora of Early English Correspondence</em></a> (CEEC-400) in order to investigate their editorial principles and practices. These sources are mostly printed editions of English historical correspondence.</p> <p>The data in the ERRATAS database consists of surveys of:</p> <ul> <li>editorial principles (explicit statements or anything resembling such);</li> <li>editorial practices (textual features that can be found in the edited texts);</li> <li>editorial work (evidence of contributors other than the stated editor(s)).</li> </ul> <p>This&nbsp;updated release of the database is in the form of <strong>two MS Excel files</strong>, one of which includes data entry forms for surveying editorial principles and practices.</p> <p>This release also comes with documentation, in the form of <strong>three pdf files</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>A <strong>manual</strong> to the database, containing a brief history of the project, and a section demonstrating with several graphs what kinds&nbsp;of data can be extracted from the dataset;</li> </ul> <p>and two documents which place the database into the context of its development, but more importantly facilitate the application of the ERRATAS method to survey further material:</p> <ul> <li>A&nbsp;<strong>checklist</strong>&nbsp;of textual features (<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/1187074">an earlier version can be found here</a>); and</li> <li><strong>Guidelines</strong>&nbsp;for surveying editorial principles and edited texts following the ERRATAS system.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Related material:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3855451"><em>Corpus of Editorial Principles (in CEEC-400 Sources)</em></a>&nbsp;&ndash; pdfs of the editorial principles in the editions surveyed</li> <li><a href="https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4134471">Editions and other sources used in the <em>Corpora of Early English Correspondence</em> (CEEC-400)</a> &ndash; detailed bibliography of the sources surveyed for the ERRATAS database</li> <li>Sairio, Anni, Samuli Kaislaniemi, Anna Merikallio &amp; Terttu Nevalainen. 2018. &ldquo;Charting orthographical reliability in a corpus of English historical letters&rdquo;. <em>ICAME Journal</em> 42: 79&ndash;96. DOI: <a href="http://doi.org/10.1515/icame-2018-0005">doi.org/10.1515/icame-2018-0005</a>. Open access.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Version history:</strong></p> <p>26.5.2020 Version 0.9 &ndash; Database unfinished (due to coronavirus restrictions). The current data has been checked twice. Material to be added in v1.0: database manual; database survey guidelines.</p> <p>14.4.2023 Version 1.1 &ndash; Database finished, after conversion to MS Excel.&nbsp;Dataset checked, corrected, amended, edited, and cleaned for release. Documentation created. Survey guidelines and data survey forms included in release.</p>