Diary Transcription Data

The transcriptions produced by the Svoboda Diaries Project can be downloaded for study and analysis using other software, including text analysis tools such as Voyant.


Diaries 16, 52, and 55 are available in this github repository.


To download diaries 47-49, click here: diaries

In this distribution, you will find the following versions of the diaries:

  • TXT: plain text versions of the diaries that you can use for text analysis
  • TEI-XML: this version of the transcription is in a format intended to facilitate interoperability, as specified by the Text Encoding Initiative (https://tei-c.org/). This format also permits the inclusion of additional information not visible in the pages themselves (e.g., journey metadata).
  • PDF: PDF versions are good for screen reading
  • HTML: HTML versions can be viewed through Internet browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari
  • Summaries: useful for those who would like a concise summary of the diaries

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


We welcome any feedback that you have about these transcriptions. Contact us here.