This is the first part of the presentation Iain Emsley and I gave at the "Will you play upon this"? Designing auditory displays for Early Modern drama workshop, at the University of Oxford's Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library, 17 November 2015.

1. 17 November 2015
Digital Manuscripts Toolkit: MS. Bodl. Or. 133, f. 7b
Bodleian First Folio
Supplied by Royal Archive © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012
“Will you play upon this?”: Designing
auditory displays for Early Modern drama
Iain Emsley & Pip Willcox
Welcome!
10.30 Welcome and introductions
10.40 Introduction to the texts
10.50 Introduction to sonification and the story so far
11.05 Break-out groups
11.45 Break
12.00 Break-out groups resume
12.15 Feedback from groups
12.30 Roundtable discussion
13.00 Close
Centre for Digital Scholarship
#sonification

2. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Shakespeare Quartos Archive
Origins: images of pre-1642 quarto editions of
Shakespeare’s plays
http://quartos.org/
JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grant
#sonification

3. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Shakespeare Quartos Archive
Bodleian, Arch. G d.41
#sonification

4. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Shakespeare Quartos Archive
Bodleian, Arch. G d.41
#sonification

5. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Shakespeare Quartos Archive
Folger, STC 22279, copy 5
<l>With all my imperfections on my head.</l>
<l><add place=“margin-left” hand=“#af” type=“intervention”
resp=“#fol”>Ham</add>Oh horrible, O horrible, most horrible,</l>
<l>If thou hast nature in thee beare it not,</l>
#sonification

6. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Shakespeare Quartos Archive
Folger, STC 22279, copy 5
<l>With all my imperfections on my head.</l>
<l><add place=“margin-left” hand=“#af” type=“intervention”
resp=“#fol”>Ham</add>Oh horrible, O horrible, most horrible,</l>
<l>If thou hast nature in thee beare it not,</l>
<delSpan> surrounding the original <l>
<anchor> (for the <delSpan>)
<addSpan>
closing </sp> (speech)
opening <sp>
opening <speaker> with its associated attributes
the line, in its entirety
second closing </sp>
<anchor> (for the <addSpan>)
opening <sp> (to reopen the printed speech)
opening <speaker> (to repeat the original speaker)
#sonification

7. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Shakespeare Quartos Archive
Folger, STC 22279, copy 5
<l>With all my imperfections on my head.</l>
<l><add place=“margin-left” hand=“#af” type=“intervention”
resp=“#fol”>Ham</add>Oh horrible, O horrible, most horrible,</l>
<l>If thou hast nature in thee beare it not,</l>
<delSpan> surrounding the original <l>
<anchor> (for the <delSpan>)
<addSpan>
closing </sp> (speech)
opening <sp>
opening <speaker> with its associated attributes
the line, in its entirety
second closing </sp>
<anchor> (for the <addSpan>)
opening <sp> (to reopen the printed speech)
opening <speaker> (to repeat the original speaker)
#sonification

8. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Bodleian First Folio
#sonification
WellcomeImages
http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2012/03/saving-oxfords-medicine/

9. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Bodleian First Folio
#sonification
PipWillcox
BodleianLibraries

10. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Bodleian First Folio
#sonification
http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

11. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Bodleian First Folio
#sonification
http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

12. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Bodleian First Folio
#sonification
http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
✦ Further generous donations
✦ Text Encoding Initiative P5 compliant, XML-encoded
digital texts
✦ Transcribed by a keying company
✦ With surprises
✦ Act & scene divisions, names; proofed, checked &
enriched encoding
Othello, V ii, Histories, p. 337

13. Centre for Digital Scholarship
Bodleian First Folio
#sonification
✦ Publication of searchable full texts of the First Folio
✦ Use and reuse: Creative Commons Attribution Only (CC
BY 3.0)
✦ Collaboration: IT Services consultation
✦ Oxford e-Research Centre
✦ Open source software
✦ Sonnet social machine
✦ Sonification…