These datasets were created for the COLLaiTE project and can be used to experiment with the Collens visualization tool. For detailed instructions about Collens and how to upload data, see the Collens documentation here.

Raymond Brulez (1895-1972) wrote the short story collection Sheherazade of Literatuur als Losprijs between 1929-1931; it was published in 1932. Inspired by the famous Arabian Nights storyteller, Brulez plays with the theme of an author who struggles to write. His literary archive contains many notes, draft manuscripts, and corrected typescripts that together represent beautifully his own authoring process and struggles as a writer. For the COLLaiTE project, we used two draft versions of the story Aladdin: the quarto typescript and the folio typescript. Since both versions contain revisions in Brulez' handwriting, we can distinguish several writing stages.

The transcriptions of Aladdin are created by the Centre for Manuscript Genetics of the University of Antwerp.

The text of each version, including the authorial revisions, is trancribed in TEI-compliant XML, following the encoding manual of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. Based on the <del> and <add> elements, we gerenated two plain text files from each XML file: the first version, which contains all the original text before Brulez' made any revisions, and the version after Brulez revised it (the "final" version). By comparing these two "intermediate" versions with one another, we gain detailed insight into the writing process of Brulez. The two versions are visualized in the Collens application.

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Copyright holders: University of Antwerp, Centre for Manuscript Genetics; Huygens Institute.

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When using the Brulez XML files, please cite:

[Brulez, Raymond, "Aladdin", 1929-1930. Encoded by Elli Bleeker, Vincent Neyt, and Dirk Van Hulle. 2017, Centre for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp.]

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