Romanian Novel Collection (ELTeC-rom)

This is the Romanian novel collection for ELTeC, the European Literary Text Collection, produced by the COST Action "Distant Reading for European Literary History" (CA16204, https://distant-reading.net).

Release notes

General information about ELTeC releases is available at https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC.

• v0.9.0, April 2021: 95 novels encoded at level 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4662599.
• v0.7.0, November 2020: 80 novels encoded at level 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4271645.
• v0.6.0: This release illustrates the most representative sub-genres of the novel in the Romanian literary tradition (hajduk, city mystery, and historical) as well as a variety of editorial practices and orthographic standards used between 1840 and 1920.

Currently, the ELTeC-rom collection contains novels encoded at level 1. The corpus composition criteria are not yet fully fulfilled.

Contributors

• Collection editor: Roxana Patras.
• Contributors (scanning, OCR & encoding): Ioana Lionte, Lucretia Pascariu, Alexandra Olteanu.
• Contributors (manual cleanup): Alexandra Ruscanu, Laura Ciobanu, Lorena Vlad, Manuela Ursu, Raluca Miron, Emanuela Gutu, Georgiana Apreotesei, Smarandita Vasilachi.
• Sources: Biblioteca Metropolitana din Bucuresti, Biblioteca Universitara "Mihai Eminescu" din Iasi, Biblioteca Judeteana din Botosani, personal micro-collections uploaded on Zenodo under the following labels: "Hajduks Library"; "RomanianNovel Library"; "CityMysteries Library"; "BibliotecaDHL_Iasi" .

For all novels included in this collection, scanning, OCR, and manual clean-up was performed by the Digital Humanities Laboratory (UAIC), Iasi.

Licence

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/).

Citation suggestion

Romanian Novel Collection (ELTeC-rom), edited by Roxana Patras. In: European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC). COST Action Distant Reading for European Literature. Version 0.9.0, April 2021. URL: https://github.com/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-rom, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4662599.