Library

Pre­sen­ta­tion of edi­tions the Library sub­sys­tem

While the Cor­pus con­tains processed texts, only indi­rectly related to the cor­re­spond­ing orig­i­nal printed edi­tions, the Library con­tains texts and stud­ies in the form of elec­tronic copies of the entire printed edi­tion or a frag­ment thereof (e.g., indi­vid­ual arti­cles). The edi­tion is rep­re­sented by search­able scans (with text copy­ing enabled).

The Library sub­sys­tem con­tains works related the­mat­i­cally to the CPCL Infor­ma­tion Sys­tem:

• Mono­graphs and col­lected essays on com­par­a­tive poet­ics and com­par­a­tive lit­er­a­ture (on Russ­ian-Romance mate­r­ial).
• Indi­vid­ual arti­cles on the same top­ics.
• Rep­re­sen­ta­tive edi­tions of poetic trans­la­tions and their orig­i­nals.
• Com­mented aca­d­e­mic and edu­ca­tional edi­tions of Russ­ian trans­la­tions of Romance authors (e.g. pub­lished in the “Lit­er­aturnye pami­at­niki” book series).
• Schol­arly and edu­ca­tional com­mented edi­tions of works by Russ­ian poets and trans­la­tors (e.g. the two-vol­ume edi­tion of Mas­tera russkogo stikhotvornogo perevoda, pub­lished in the “Bib­lioteka poeta” book series).
• Bilin­gual edi­tions of non-Russ­ian poetry in Russ­ian trans­la­tions (pub­lished by “Raduga”, “Progress” and other pub­lish­ing houses).
• Schol­arly and edu­ca­tional com­mented edi­tions of works by authors who have been trans­lated by Russ­ian poets.

A list of pub­li­ca­tions for step-by-step dig­i­ti­za­tion and input into the Library sub­sys­tem is being com­piled.

Pub­li­ca­tion types

The Library sub­sys­tem con­tains pub­li­ca­tions (edi­tions) of the fol­low­ing types.

• [Texts]. Pri­mary sources: pub­li­ca­tions of poetic works trans­lated into Russ­ian from Romance lan­guages, their orig­i­nals and inter­me­di­ary trans­la­tions, as well as pub­li­ca­tions that con­tain at least some works of the afore­men­tioned kinds.
• [Stud­ies]. Sec­ondary sources: lit­er­ary crit­i­cism and research, as well as com­men­taries, notes and accom­pa­ny­ing arti­cles in the pub­li­ca­tions of pri­mary sources.

A par­tic­u­lar edi­tion can belong to either or both types.

Pre­sen­ta­tion of indi­vid­ual doc­u­ments the Library sub­sys­tem

Pub­li­ca­tions in the Library are described as con­sist­ing of indi­vid­ual doc­u­ments (works, titles). This means that indi­vid­ual titles are iden­ti­fied in the struc­ture of the pub­li­ca­tion, whereas the meta­data describe both the entire pub­li­ca­tion and the doc­u­ments it con­tains.

In the case of a mono-edi­tion (a mono­graph or an arti­cle), the descrip­tion of the pub­li­ca­tion coin­cides with the descrip­tion of the doc­u­ment.

Both col­lec­tions and mono-edi­tions may con­tain incor­po­rated doc­u­ments (e.g., as quotes or appen­dices).

Doc­u­ment types

In the Library sub­sys­tem, the fol­low­ing doc­u­ment types are iden­ti­fied:

• [Text]. Pri­mary texts.
• [Study]. Lit­er­ary crit­i­cism and research, as well as accom­pa­ny­ing arti­cles in the pub­li­ca­tions of pri­mary sources.
• [Com­men­tary]. Com­men­taries and notes in the pub­li­ca­tions of pri­mary sources.
• [Other: Indexes etc.]. Indexes, ref­er­ences, edi­to­r­ial notes.

Meta­data (attrib­utes)

In the Library sub­sys­tem, pub­li­ca­tions are sup­plied with the fol­low­ing attrib­utes:

• Short title of pub­li­ca­tion (Author + Title + Data)
• Bib­li­o­graphic descrip­tion of pub­li­ca­tion
• Author
• Com­piler
• Edi­tor
• Trans­la­tor (if a trans­lated edi­tion)
• Pub­li­ca­tion date (accord­ing to bib­li­o­graphic descrip­tion)
• Lan­guage of pub­li­ca­tion
• Pub­li­ca­tion type (Text or Study)

Indi­vid­ual doc­u­ments (works, titles) iden­ti­fied within a pub­li­ca­tion are sup­plied with the fol­low­ing attrib­utes:

• Short title of work (Author + Title + Data)
• Bib­li­o­graphic descrip­tion of work
• Author of work (author of the orig­i­nal if a trans­lated work)
• Trans­la­tor (if a trans­lated work)
• Pub­li­ca­tion date (accord­ing to bib­li­o­graphic descrip­tion)
• Date of com­po­si­tion (if the pre­cise date is unknown, a range is given)
• Date of the first pub­li­ca­tion (if known)
• Lan­guage of work
• Doc­u­ment type (Text, Study, Com­men­tary or Other)

These meta­data sets accom­pany pub­li­ca­tions and doc­u­ments of all types. This approach lets us obtain the accom­pa­ny­ing infor­ma­tion (meta­data) when work­ing with any text, and makes attribute search more flex­i­ble.

The meta­data are invoked by click­ing the (i) but­ton on the tool­bar.

Exam­ple 1 (pub­li­ca­tion meta­data):

Exam­ple 2 (doc­u­ment meta­data):