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Thomas Raddall Electronic Archive Project

Goals

Funded by a grant from the Birks Family Foundation, the Thomas Raddall Electronic Archive Project is creating an electronic archive that will feature selected significant letters, manuscripts, photographs, stories, and broadcasts by Thomas Raddall, one of Canada's and Nova Scotia's foremost authors and historians.

Visitors may search the electronic archive for references to people, places, literary works (both Raddall's own and by others), as well as topics of interest ranging from Guglielmo Marconi to Mi'kmaq history, Rudyard Kipling to Hugh MacLennan, the American Revolution to the history of Halifax, and nautical studies to natural history.

Phase 1

Phase 1 of the project, conducted by the Dalhousie University Libraries with support from the Dalhousie Electronic Text Centre (ETC) makes available, over the Internet, approximately fifty letters dating from 1937 to 1979.

To allow for more sophisticated searching than is available using only the "find" feature in standard Web browsers, the project is using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to markup the texts. A brief explanation of SGML can be found on the ETC site. The Raddall Project is pleased to make available the tagging documentation used by our taggers. Based on the Text Encoding Initiative P3 descriptions of tags, it includes discussions of practice issues as well as examples of our use of the tags. For more information on the overall operation of the Thomas Raddall Electronic Archive Project, see the Summary Report.

Phase 2

Phase 2 of the project completed in December 2002 makes available over the Internet, an extensive finding aid of the complete Thomas Raddall collection. This will assist researchers in identifying, before a trip to the Archives, specific materials of interest from among the collection's 7.4 metres of textual documents, approximately 1600 photographs, and other materials. The finding aid has been tagged in SGML according to the Encoded Archival Description protocols and is presented on the Internet in HTML format. A free text search of the finding aid is now available.

Phase 3

During Phase 3, the bibliography of Thomas Raddall's publications was revised and updated to provide the most comprehensive bibliographical resource of his work to date. It includes the first known editions of his short stories and books as well as subsequent editions and translations. This Phase was carried out in 2003.

Phase 4

Under the direction of Erin Greeno, the photograph gallery has been expanded to include more than 80 images tracing Raddall's life through his photograph collection. Researchers will have a choice of viewing the pictures chronologically or thematically.

Copyright Information

Dalhousie University holds copyright to all works, including manuscripts, by Thomas H. Raddall. Permission must be obtained for reproduction (in any form) of this material.

Thomas Raddall Electronic Archive Project Participants

Former Project Participants