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Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum / edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri.
Springer Nature - Springer Mathematics and Statistics eBooks 2015 English International Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2199-0956
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statistics.
- Library science.
- Application software.
- Cultural property.
- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.
- Library Science.
- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.
- Cultural Heritage.
- Local Subjects:
- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.
- Library Science.
- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.
- Cultural Heritage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book documents the creation of the Bichitra Online Tagore Variorum, a publicly accessible database of Rabindranath Tagore's complete works in Bengali and English totaling some 140,000 pages of primary material. Chapters cover innovative aspects of the site, all replicable in other projects: a hyperbibliography; a search engine and hyperconcordance working across the database; and a unique collation program comparing variant texts at three levels. There are also chapters on the special problems of processing manuscripts, and on planning the website. Early chapters take readers through the history of the project, an overview of Tagore’s works, and the Bengali writing system with the challenges of adapting it to electronic form. The name Bichitra, meaning "various" in Bengali, alludes both to the great variety of Tagore’s works and to their various stages of composition. Beyond their literary excellence, they are notable for their sheer quantity, the number of variant forms of a great many items, and their afterlife in translation, often the poet’s own. Seldom if ever has the same writer revised his material and recast it across genres on such a scale. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in 1913. By its value-added presentation of this range of material, Bichitra can be a model for future databases covering an author’s complete works or other major corpus of texts. It offers vastly expanded access to Tagore’s writings, and enables new kinds of research including computational text analysis. The “book of the website” shows in technical and human terms how researchers with interests in the arts, literature and technology can collaborate on cultural informatics projects. .
- Contents:
- The Story of the Bichitra Project
- Tagore's Text
- The Bengali Writing System: Fonts and OCR
- Images and Scanning
- Manuscripts and Their Transcription
- Data Management and Hyperbibliography
- Search Engine and Hyperconcordance
- Collation: Prabhed and its Predecessors.- Planning the Website
- Beyond Bichitra
- Appendix. .
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3-319-23678-4
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