Editorial Principles and Selection Criteria

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Search Parameters and Results

Search process used in the Chronicling America repository to compile the main catalog (the supplementary catalog of Deutscher Correspondent items collected by Kim Nitschke uses different search parameters):

  • Search criteria: Advanced search
  • Select states: All states
  • Select Newspaper(s): All newspapers
  • Select Year(s): 1865-1910 (publication of the first text of nationwide distribution; year of death)
  • Language: German
  • Enter search ...with the phrase: mark twain
  • Search result: 837 results containing “the phrase "mark twain""


All relevant newspapers retrieved using the above search parameters (last updated 14 Dec. 2022):


Selection Criteria

  • list all articles that the search retrieved
  • discard entries that are irrelevant due to faulty OCR / typos
  • supply titles for all collected articles: if no original title is available, a short summary is given instead [in square brackets]
  • create individual pages (Category:Article Pages) for all entries:
    • entries that offer substantial information about Mark Twain include an image of the original article, a transcript of the text, and a translation into English;
    • entries which refer to Mark Twain by name only or are otherwise deemed unsubstantial ("Type N" in the overview) include only metadata (Category:Article Pages Without Content)
  • include all collected entries in the catalog overview


Annotation Criteria

Further information on relevant people, places, topics is featured on Topic Pages (Category:Topic Pages). Key words within an Article Page are annotated in this way if they meet at least one of the following criteria:

  • they are specifically relevant to the project's focus (i.e. Mark Twain's stay in Germany and Austria; more extensive discussion of Mark Twain's work or person by the German-language press);
  • they appear in more than one article.

Such annotations for key words should provide information on the background or context that is relevant to the article/s which mention/s the key word, instead of giving broad and generalised information on the key word itself. Key words can be grouped on Topic Pages if they belong to the same wider context (e.g. different places in Berlin might be grouped together on one page titled "Berlin" with subheadings for each place).

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