Data Dictionary
Shellshock
The term “shell-shock” refers to a form of war trauma, first named during the first world war, which became a term of contention for the emerging field of psychology.
Collections:
Collections serve to organize items into shared categories by form and genre.
- Children's Books: This collection includes novels intended for children from the late nineteenth century until 1948, which reflect broad ideas regarding gender, athletics, and heroism directly before and after the First World War.
- Clinical Records of Shell-shock: This collection organizes materials on the legal and medical context of the diagnosis.
- Popular Culture: I transcribed the lyrics of "The Shell-shock Shake" and the comic Keep Smiling!: More News By Liarless for German Homes and featured these sources in my collection on popular culture representations of shell-shock. This collection will be expanded to include interviews with scholars of film and radio.
- War Poetry: Organizes critical editions of "Dead Man’s Dump" and "Break of Day in The Trenches" by Isaac Rosenberg, "Strange Meeting" by Wilfred Owen, "The Rear Guard" by Siegfried Sassoon, and "Song of the Mud" by Mary Borden.
Dublin Core metadata fields
Omeka makes use of Dublin Core, a form of metadata vocabulary.
When available, I made use of the following fields:
Title: The title of the item.
Subject: The subject of the item.
Description: This field is where I enter organizing information about the item, any description of images, and text.
Creator: The creator of the item (its author or authors).
Date: The date of publication.
Source: If I sourced this item from an existing URL on the internet, this field serves to link back to the original source.
Publisher: The original publisher of the item
Type: The type of item, which I use as a means of categorizing items by genre.
I added the following types:
Magazine: The Gentleman's Magazine described itself in its first number (1731) as ‘a Monthly Collection to store up, as in a Magazine, the most remarkable Pieces’ of ‘humour or intelligence’ published in the preceding month. The word was already in common use in book titles, as in Edward Hatton's The Merchant's Magazine, or Tradesman's Treasury (1695), but the success of the Gentleman's and the arrival of further journals such as the London Magazine (begun 1732) and the Town and Country Magazine (1769) confirmed the sense of ‘magazine’ as a periodical publication containing miscellaneous articles from various sources.
"magazine." In The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Birch, Dinah. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Newspaper: A regular printed publication, most commonly produced in either a tabloid or broadsheet format, that delivers news (and much else) on a daily or weekly basis.
Work Cited:
Harcup, Tony. "newspaper." In A Dictionary of Journalism. : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Musical Score: Score, notation, in manuscript or printed form, of a musical work, probably so called from the vertical scoring lines that connect successive related staves. A score may contain the single part for a solo work or the many parts that make up an orchestral or ensemble composition. Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "score." Encyclopedia Britannica, September 13, 2017. https://www.britannica.com/art/score-music.
Poem: Language sung, chanted, spoken, or written according to some pattern of recurrence that emphasizes the relationships between words on the basis of sound as well as sense: this pattern is almost always a rhythm or metre, which may be supplemented by rhyme or alliteration or both. The demands of verbal patterning usually make poetry a more condensed medium than prose or everyday speech, often involving variations in syntax, the use of special words and phrases (poetic diction) peculiar to poets, and a more frequent and more elaborate use of figures of speech, principally metaphor and simile.
"poetry." Oxford Reference. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100333227
Comic: According to Scott McCloud, comics are "juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer" (20).
Work Cited:
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. Kitchen Sink Press, 1993.
Tagging
Tagging entries within collections opened up space beyond the Dublin Core metadata which Omeka uses. For instance, I can tag The Hydra, a war hospital magazine containing poetry, as both "magazine" and "poetry."
I tagged all genres, and if the word "shellshock" appears in the text itself, it was tagged as "shellshock."
In the case of books intended for boys and girls, I drew on the segregated advertisements at the backs of the books themselves to tag books as "marketed for boys" and "marketed for girls."
I imposed tags for authors, collection, form, and geography.
I used the following tags to impose order upon my entries: "marketed for boys," "marketed for girls," "belgium," "france," "charles s myers," "comics" "craiglockhart hospital," "hospital magazine," "isaac rosenberg," "john collie" "legal document," "magazine, "mary borden," "medical record," "poem," "popular culture," "psychology," "punch almanack," "shellshock," "siegfried sassoon," "war office," "war poetry," "whr rivers," "wilfred owen" "women writers."