Will's World Data

Data

Here is the data we have made available so far:

• Macbeth.xml - XML of the play Macbeth, described by schema Play.xsd
• Macbeth-characters.xml - XML listing of the characters in Macbeth, described by schema Character.xsd
• Macbeth-Unlock-geo-tagging.xml - output from Unlock Text listing the entities in Macbeth's text which were extracted as possible place names

The core resource is a marked up version of the play "Macbeth". The text of this was submitted to the Unlock Text service for entity extraction, and the results are linked above.

Character utterances in the play are associated with a particular CharID; the name and further details of the character can be picked up by cross referencing with the characters data.

The XML was produced from the marked up texts made available at Open Source Shakespeare.

Please note the formats here have not been finalised; for example in another iteration, much redundant data will be removed from the play structure. Other plays may be made available based on the Open Source Shakespeare (OSS) mark up.

Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare

The text of Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare is freely available from Random House. We have marked up the text of the Macbeth chapter through a mixture of manual and automated processes. The resultant XML is available here and we hope will be a useful supplement to the main text of the play. The chapter is divided into sections, and Macbeth quotations which appear throughout the text are marked up and can be parsed to get a precise reference into the play.

• Asimov's Macbeth chapter, described by schema Asimovs-Macbeth.xsd
• README documenting the format

Supplementary data

We also have non-Shakespeare-specific data from other EDINA services:

• Mediahub metadata zipped and gzipped - XML metadata from JISC Mediahub
• Statistical-Accounts-of-Scotland-Parish-Reports.csv - listing of parish reports from the original (1791-99) and "New" (1834-45) Accounts, with links into the EDINA Statistical Accounts service.

JISCMediaHub is a new multimedia platform offering a wealth of digital image, video and audio collections accessible from a single interface. A subset of the metadata is provided here, due to unresolved licensing issues. These records may be used subject to Creative Commons Attribution licence version 3.0 unported (CC-BY 3.0). The record format is documented at http://edina.ac.uk/support/mediahub-m2m.html#format.

The Statistical Accounts metadata allows searching for places described with the Accounts, and provides open access to digitized versions of the reports. One possible problem people may encounter is that the list uses the original spelling of county and parish names from the Accounts, which may differ from the modern (e.g. "Dunse" rather than the modern "Duns").

Useful tools

• Unlock
• Unlock Text
• JISC Mediahub
• Statistical Accounts of Scotland