ItaDraCor

Corpus Description

The Italian Drama Corpus contains 139 original Italian plays, retrieved from Biblioteca Italiana. They were originally encoded in TEI P4 and updated by us to TEI P5. We did some other minor adjustments so they can be connected to the DraCor portal, where they are now ready to be used by researchers (https://dracor.org/ita). Adjustments are documented in the changelog below.

Actually, 171 items are categorised as "Letteratura teatrale" in Biblioteca Italiana's catalogue, but 32 were not imported, because:

• they were not in Italian, but Latin (like "Chrysis", the comedy written by Pope Pius II)
• or they had no <speaker> tags
• or they were not plays in the narrower sense (like a smaller collection of Tasso's "Dialoghi")
• or they were not TEI-encoded files, but scans (like this edition of plays by Grazzini)

The <availability> information given in each file reads: "Questa risorsa digitale è liberamente accessibile per uso personale o scientifico." ("This digital resource is freely accessible for personal or scientific use.")

ItaDraCor is maintained by Frank Fischer and Carsten Milling. – Thanks go to Michael Sonkin for additional character annotations (gender, relations, Wikidata IDs) and to Fabio Ciotti for helpful advice.

Changelog

03.02.2020

• Import of 139 plays.
• Adjust filenames (e.g., "bibit001163" → "alfieri-oreste.xml").
• Add Wikidata IDs for plays.

08.02.2020

• Convert TEI P4 to P5.
• Add xml:lang="ita" to root element.
• Add DraCor ID to publicationStmt.
• Add bibl[@type="digitalSource"] with link to original source.
• Many minor markup fixes, see commit history for details.

16.02.2020

• Identify speakers and reference them in who attribute.
• Add particDesc with list of all speakers per play.

20.02.2020

• Add Wikidata IDs for authors where applicable.

24.–27.02.2020

• Fix some speaker IDs and dissolve #tutti/#tutte.

04.09.2020

• Add years for first print, premiere and creation date (entire corpus).

06.02.2021

• Recode author details (using <forename>, <surname>, etc.).

18.03.2021

• Fix some errors in speaker IDs (commit).

20.03.2021

• Add gender information for all characters (commit).

19.04.2021

• Add Wikidata IDs for historical and mythological characters (commit).

20.04.2021

• Add character relations to some plays (commit).

10.05.2021

• Add missing <stage> directions.