This is the Portuguese novel collection for the ELTeC, the European Literary Text Collection, produced by the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History (CA16204, https://distant-reading.net).
- v2.0.0, April 2021: 100 novels in level 1 and level 2 encoding, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4288235.
- v0.9.0, November 2020: 100 novels, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4271644.
General information about ELTeC releases is available at https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC.
The users of the material should be aware that some texts still need a finer-grained revision, and that not all metadata has been extensively checked.
In addition, due to the different sources of the material, the collection includes texts in different original ortographies, and in at least two different more modern ones, in the case of books obtained from (more) modern editions.
The main responsibility for ELTeC-por lies with Diana Santos, who centralized the process and took care of the ELTeC encoding. Raquel Amaro established contact with the National Library of Portugal which secured OCR of so far undigitized works for ELTeC. Raquel Amaro also procured and got funding from Centro de Linguística da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa for the correction of OCR errors for the works, and hired Adeliana Silva for the revision. Isabel Araújo Branco hired Inês Lucas and Alina Balté for the revision. Diana Santos hired Vanda Morgado and Madalena Rato for the revision. Paulo Silva Pereira suggested several authors to be included and managed to get some hard to find works by woman writers.
- Sources: Gutenberg project, archive.org, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Luso-livros, Bibliotrónica, Projecto Adamastor, Câmara Municipal de Sines.
All texts included in this collection are in the public domain. The textual markup is provided with a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 licence (CC BY, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
We acknowledge a 3 months scholarship from Centro de Linguística da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, BI - FCSH/CLUNL/UID/LIN/03213/2013, as well as the support of the National Library of Portugal, which digitized more than 20 works at our request.
If you use this corpus in your research or teaching, please follow good scholarly practice and use the following citation suggestion to acknowledge your source. In English:
- Portuguese Novel Collection (ELTeC-por), edited by Diana Santos. Version 2.0.0, April 2020. In European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC). COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4288235.
@collection{ELTeCpor-2020,
title = {Portuguese Novel Collection (ELTeC-por)},
maintitle = {European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC)},
editor = {Diana Santos},
version = {v2.0.0},
year = {2021},
month = {4},
publisher = {COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History},
url = {https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-por/},
doi= {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4288235},
}
Or in Portuguese:
- Coleção de romances e novelas portugueses (ELTeC-por), editada por Diana Santos. Versão 2.0.0, abril de 2021. In Coleção de textos literários europeus (ELTeC). Ação COST "Distant Reading for European Literary History". DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4288235.
@collection{ELTeCpor-2020,
title = {Coleção de romances e novelas portugueses (ELTeC-por)},
maintitle = {Coleção de textos literários europeus (ELTeC)},
editor = {Diana Santos},
version = {v0.9.0},
year = {2020},
month = {novembro},
publisher = {COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History},
url = {https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-por/},
doi= {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4288235},
}