How to Use This Repository: This repository is intended for use with the Journals of Lewis & Clark Expedition Ruby on Rails application.
Data Repo: https://github.com/CDRH/data_lewisandclark
Source Files: TEI XML
Script Languages: Ruby, Javascript
Encoding Schema: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines
Welcome to the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online. This website makes available the text of the celebrated Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, edited by Gary E. Moulton. Moulton's edition — the most accurate and inclusive edition ever published — is one of the major scholarly achievements of the late twentieth century.
The site features the full text — almost five thousand pages — of the journals. Also included are a gallery of images, important supplemental texts, and audio files of selected passages plus Native American perspectives. With a focus on full-text searchability and ease of navigation, the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online is intended to be both a useful tool for scholars and an engaging website for the general public.
Project Site: https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/
Rails Repo: https://github.com/CDRH/lewisandclark
Credits: https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.about.projectteam
Work to Be Done: https://github.com/CDRH/lewisandclark/issues
The primary goal of this edition of the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition is to present users with a reliable text that is largely uncluttered with editorial interference. The editorial procedures designed to provide such an authentic text have necessitated certain modifications in the original text due to the demands of modern typography and the inconsistent usage of the journalists, but every effort has been made to furnish a transcription that is true to the original. Difficulties that have worked against producing a printed transcript that nearly duplicates handwritten words have also prevented establishing foolproof and unchanging principles of editing. Readers have been advised when deviations from the following procedures occur.
View the full Editorial Policy and the Online Editorial Procedures.
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