I spent the day preparing Voyant Tools corpora for an in-class lab tomorrow. The following links lead to a chronological corpus of all 9 magazines currently offering TEI XML files in the MJPLab Sourceforge site. I also broke them down and offered individualized corpora by magazine to facilitate comparative analysis.
To make the datasets, I used a regular expression in TextWrangler to strip all the tags out of the XML files, and then used a command line script to batch rename them. The first attempt at the comprehensive corpus resulted in weird results on account of Voyant’s ordering the files alphabetically, so I manually renamed all 508 of them to place the publication date (yyyy-mm-dd) at the beginning of the naming convention to keep the representation of materials chronological. The individual magazine corpora are chronological on account of the volume and issue numbers having been part of the naming convention first used by Mark Gaipa.
MJP Corpora at Voyant Tools
- Chronological corpus of the 9 magazines individualized below
http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1351025844510.61&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt - BLAST
http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1351006206655.8775&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt - The Crisis
http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1351006670332.4242&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt - The Freewoman
http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1351007344024.8615&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt - The New Freewoman
http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1351007768576.8502&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt - The Egoist
http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1351007263352.2751&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt - The Little Review
http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1329252640907.4758&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt - Others
http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1351008139831.4765&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt - Poetry
http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1351008290752.187&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt - The Tyro
http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1351008418048.5198&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt
Meet the Little Magazine Project (US)
Not to be confused with the Little Magazines Project in the UK, The Little Magazine Project is in a start-up phase at the University of Iowa, under the direction of James Elmborg, associate professor at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. It looks like it’s going to be dedicated to mimeographed poetry magazines from the 1960s. There is some more information here and a short YouTube clip here.
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