In the 18th century in Paris, only two public theatres could officially perform comedies: the Com{\'e}die-Fran{\c c}aise, and the Com{\'e}die-Italienne. The latter was much less well known. By studying a century of accounting registers, we aim to learn more about its successful plays, its actors, musicians, set designers, and all the small trades necessary for its operation, its administration, logistics and finances. To this end, we employ a mass of untapped and unpublished resources, the 27,544 pages of 63 daily registers available at the Biblioth{\`e}que Nationale de France (BnF). And we take a decidedly fresh look at emerging forms of creation and changes in the entertainmenteconomy. We developed the crowdsourcing platform RECITAL to collect and index the data from theregisters, following an emerging trend in Digital Humanities. RECITAL is built upon the ScribeAPI framework and it offers a fully-fledged web application to classify the pages, annotate with marks and tags, transcribe the indexed marks and even to verify the previous transcripts. We also describe a multi-level data model and to develop a series of monitoring anddecision tools to support crowdsourced data management up to their definitive form.
翻译:在18世纪的巴黎,仅有两家公立剧院获准正式上演喜剧:法兰西喜剧院与意大利喜剧院。后者知名度远逊于前者。通过研究长达一个世纪的账册记录,我们旨在深入了解其成功剧目、演员、音乐家、布景设计师以及剧院运营所需的各色工匠、行政管理、物流与财务体系。为此,我们利用了一大批未经开发且未曾公开的资源——法国国家图书馆(BnF)收藏的63部日常账册共计27544页。并以全新视角审视新兴创作形态与娱乐经济变迁。我们遵循数字人文学科的新兴趋势,开发了众包平台RECITAL,用于采集并索引这些账册数据。该平台基于ScribeAPI框架构建,提供完备的网页应用程序,可对页面进行分类、添加标记与标签、对索引标记进行转录,甚至对先前转录结果进行校验。我们还描述了一种多层次数据模型,并开发了一系列监控与决策工具,以支持众包数据管理直至其最终定型。