Sub-Projects

These are the main things we’re working on at the moment:

text digitization
- History of Middle-earth (initial digitization of vols 1–9 done)
general markup
- The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and the Silmarillion (all mostly done)
  - see Marking Up The Hobbit in XML
  - see Punctuation and Structure in Marking Up Direct Speech
- Unfinished Tales, Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin (just starting)
- History of Middle-earth (vol 6 complete; vol 4 almost done; vols 1–3, 5, 7–9 just starting)
referencing/citation systems
- The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and the Silmarillion (in progress)
- History of Middle-earth (general principles plus specific for volumes marked up)
- Nature of Middle-earth (general principles)
initial modelling of named entities in Lord of the Rings
initial modelling of direct speech in Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit
initial modelling of time indicators in Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit along with visualizations of narrative time (Mythmoot VIII talk)
initial sentence tokenization, lemmatization, and dependency analysis of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
term-document matrices and other related analyses
- The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and the Silmarillion (all mostly done)
- see also TF-IDF Demo

Secondarily:

identifying the textual variants in the printed Silmarillion editions
cataloguing Tolkien’s verse with rhyme and metre information
- see Github repository
digitizing and modelling Tolkien’s A Middle English Vocabulary
- see Github repository
digitizing map data
- see Github repository

Also related, see: