This dataset
represents my work to interpret the variances between the two
published editions of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas as
described in Martin Paul Eve,
'“You
have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and
Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas',
Open Library of Humanities,
2(1), <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/olh.82">http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/olh.82</a>.
It was created through a
hermeneutic process of cross-comparing the different texts and then
marked-up in JSON by hand. Potential re-uses include corrections,
further visualization, digital-humanities teaching, and structural
analysis.I also here include a Stemma diagram of the different texts and a Sankey Diagram of the differences between the versions.</p

Eve, Martin Paul

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JSON-Encoded Textual Variance Between the Published Versions of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in “an Orison of Sonmi ~451”

Birkbeck Institutional Research Online

 (1) Overview Repository locationhttps://figshare.com.https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3493103. ContextThis data was produced as part of the research article:Martin Paul Eve, ‘“You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas’, Open Library of Humanities, 2(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/olh.82. (2) Methods StepsThe dataset was created by close-reading the two versions of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas [1, 2] side-by-side and making subjective/hermeneutic/interpreta-tional judgements about the functional equivalence, or otherwise, of passages. I then transcribed this into a JSON dictionary.The methodology for this transcription was as follows:1. Assign a name to each edition (I used “E” and “P” to represent “Electronic” and “Print” respectively).2. For each “question” posed by the archivist, assign a sequentially incremented identifier. The first ques-tion in the P edition, then, becomes PQ1. The sec-ond is PQ2 etc. For the Electronic edition, this would be EQ1 and EQ2.3. For each “answer” or “response” provided by the Fabricant Sonmi ~451, assign a sequentially  incremented identifier. The first answer in the P  edition, then, becomes PR1, the second PR2 etc. In the E edition, this would be ER1 and ER2.This methodology for identifying textual passages works well for this chapter of the novel, since the text is strictly divided into alternating question and answer sections.The final part of the methodology was to match sections between the two editions and to map crossovers. This is the most contestable part of this dataset but a refer-ence table for how this has been achieved can be found in the appendix of the associated article at: http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/olh.82.Those who wish to move from this dataset back to the original text should count questions and responses from the start of the respective edition. Verification that the correct point has been reached can be made with refer-ence to the aforementioned appendix. Sampling strategyThe dataset covers the section of Cloud Atlas entitled “An Orison of Sonmi ~451” in its entirety. A side-by-side com-parison of the texts indicated that this is where the pri-mary differences lie between the versions. Quality ControlThe data was checked at multiple stages by the author. (3) Dataset description Object nameCloudAtlasVariants.jsonDATA PAPERJSON-Encoded Textual Variance Between the Published Versions of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in “an Orison of Sonmi ~451”Martin Paul EveAll, Birkbeck, University of London, GBmartin.eve@bbk.ac.ukThis dataset represents my work to interpret the variances between the two published editions of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas as described in Martin Paul Eve, ‘“You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas’, Open Library of Humanities, 2(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/olh.82. It was created through a hermeneutic process of cross-comparing the diﬀ erent texts and then marked-up in JSON by hand. Potential re-uses include corrections, further visualization, digital-humanities teaching, and structural analysis.Keywords: Literature; Literary Forms and Genres; Literary Criticism; FictionEve, M P 2016 JSON-Encoded Textual Variance Between the Published Versions of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in “an Orison of Sonmi ~451”. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2: e2, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/johd.6Eve: JSON-Encoded Textual Variance Between the Published Versions of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in “an Orison of Sonmi ~451”Art. e3, p.  2 of 2 Format names and versionsJSONCreation datesStart: 2015-12-15End: 2016-01-10Dataset CreatorsLanguageEnglishLicenseCC-BYRepository name FigsharePublication date2016-07-20(4) Reuse potentialFurther studies of the editorial processes surrounding works of contemporary fiction may wish to re-use this dataset as a case study in the editorial practices of David Ebershoff (and others) as well the potential de-synchro-nizations that can occur between versions. It may also be of use to those studying version variance in other early novels by David Mitchell and other works of contempo-rary fiction.Other scholars may wish to check and revise the  interpretations of functional equivalence that I have pos-ited in this dataset and re-issue future versions that have greater community consensus around the interpretation.Perhaps most importantly, though, this dataset serves as a base on which others may draw in tracing the tex-tual genetics of contemporary fiction. This dataset is also deliberately designed to be ingested by various D3.js tools for visualization and I hope that others will re-use this dataset within novel visualization paradigms for textual genetics. Digital humanities courses that wish to pursue visualization of textual genetics may also find this dataset of use as a relatively small and manageable corpus that can be set as in-class exercises.There are no barriers to the re-use of this dataset as no copyright portions of the fictional work are here reproduced.AcknowledgementsMy thanks to David Mitchell for his help in ascertaining the cause of the version variants here documented and to Caroline Edwards for her patient and detailed editorial work on the accompanying article.Competing InterestsThe author has no competing interests to declare.References1. Mitchell, D Cloud Atlas (Sceptre, 2008).2. Mitchell, D Cloud Atlas, Kindle (Random House, 2008).How to cite this article: Eve, M P 2016 JSON-Encoded Textual Variance Between the Published Versions of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas in “an Orison of Sonmi ~451”. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2: e2, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/johd.6Published: 25 November 2016Copyright: © 2016 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.Journal of Open Humanities Data is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by Ubiquity Press OPEN ACCESS

This dataset
represents my work to interpret the variances between the two
published editions of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas as
described in Martin Paul Eve,
'“You
have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and
Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas',
Open Library of Humanities,
2(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/olh.82.
It was created through a
hermeneutic process of cross-comparing the different texts and then
marked-up in JSON by hand. Potential re-uses include corrections,
further visualization, digital-humanities teaching, and structural
analysis.I also here include a Stemma diagram of the different texts and a Sankey Diagram of the differences between the versions.</p

Martin Paul Eve (485446)

The Francis Crick Institute

JSON-Encoded Textual Variance Between the Published Versions of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in “An Orison of Sonmi ~451”

This dataset represents my work to interpret the variances between the two published editions of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas as described in Martin Paul Eve, ‘“You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell’s 'Cloud Atlas'’, 'Open Library of Humanities', 2(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/olh.82. It was created through a hermeneutic process of cross-comparing the different texts and then marked-up in JSON by hand. Potential re-uses include corrections, further visualization, digital-humanities teaching, and structural analysis

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