Encoding Samples
Please feel free to choose one of these to work with, or use a
text of your own.
Typed Basic Samples from Several Genres
This handout is a set of simple samples from various genre
that we have typed in.
General Encoding
These are selected sample texts for use in encoding practice.
They represent a range of different document types and
challenges.
Periodicals
- Harper's Bazaar, from the Making of America website
(could choose any one of these many periodicals)
Image-heavy document with some text
Specific Challenges
These samples were chosen to present particular encoding problems.
Encoding multiple witnesses
Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, 1855 (excerpt)
Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, 1891 (excerpt)
Encoding the writing and revision process
Walt Whitman's Hands Round, manuscript draft
Alternatively: Letter from Nicholas Brown to Pardon Sheldon
For those who want more of a challenge: Letter from Nicholas Brown to Esak Hopkins, 1764
Annotation and commentary
Pepys 4.317v: Private Occurrences, or, The Transactions of the four Last Years, Written in Imitation of the Old Ballad of Hey Brave Oliver, Ho Brave Oliver, etc.