Projects – eLaboratories

Center for Digital Editing

By Jennifer Stertzer

Project duration: 2016 -

Source Materials

Correspondence
Financial Records
Weather Records

Tools and Technologies

ArcGIS
Drupal
FromThePage
TEI
Timeline JS
WordPress

The Center for Digital Editing concentrates the resources and expertise necessary to advance the practice of editing and the growth of innovative digital project solutions.

Black and white nineteenth-century photograph of armed and uniformed military men marching down street in front of a home in Mississippi

Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project

By Lindsey Peterson

Project duration: 2019 -

Source Materials

Archival and Special Collections

Tools and Technologies

FromThePage
Omeka
OpenRefine
TEI
WordPress

The Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project (CWRGM) is digitizing, transcribing, and annotating over 20,000 valuable records from Mississippi’s governors’ offices and making them freely available online. The …

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coloniaLab

By Clayton McCarl

Project duration: 2016 -

Source Materials

Archival and Special Collections

Tools and Technologies

Omeka
TEI

coloniaLab is a workshop for the collaborative editing of manuscripts and rare books related to early Latin America. We seek to produce accurate and accessible versions, and we also reflect …

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Dickens Search

By Emily Middleton

Project duration: 2021 -

Source Materials

Articles
Correspondence
Fiction
Speeches
Verse

Tools and Technologies

Omeka

Dickens Search combines book history with digital tools, offering a browsable and searchable database of the works of Charles Dickens (1812—1870) that draws primarily on first editions transcribed by Dickens scholars. …

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Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital

By krichter

Project duration: 2015 -

Source Materials

Archival and Special Collections
Manuscripts

Tools and Technologies

Adobe Creative Suite
Canvas Panel (IIIF viewer developed by Digirati)
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
Markdown
Microsoft Word
Relational database

The Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital gives access to a singular manuscript created by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a group of Nahua elders, authors, and artists. Written in …

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Editing the Eartha M.M. White Collection

By Clayton McCarl

Project duration: 2016 -

Source Materials

Archival and Special Collections
Correspondence

Tools and Technologies

Omeka
TEI

Editing the Eartha M.M. White Collection is a collaborative digital public history project based at the University of North Florida (UNF). We publish selected materials related to the life and …

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Ellen Swallow Richards Papers Project

By Serenity Sutherland

Project duration: 2017 -

Source Materials

Correspondence
Journals

Tools and Technologies

Microsoft Word
TEI

The first woman to graduate from and then teach at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, leader of the 20th century home economics movement, and ardent supporter of women’s scientific education, chemist Ellen …

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Herman Melville Electronic Library

By Christopher Ohge

Project duration: 2009 -

Source Materials

Fiction
open-access visualization interface
Verse

Tools and Technologies

Jekyll
TEI

A Digital Critical Archive of Herman Melville’s works.

Intertextual References in the Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: Visualization for Close and Distant Reading

By Noelle Baker

Project duration: 2021 -

Source Materials

open-access visualization interface

Tools and Technologies

The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition is a collaboration between editors Noelle A. Baker and Sandra Harbert Petrulionis and the Women Writers Project to edit, transcribe, …

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Mary Anne Rawson’s The Bow in the Cloud (1834): A Digital Edition and Network Analysis

By Christopher Ohge

Project duration: 2018 -

Source Materials

Articles
Fiction
open-access visualization interface
Speeches
Verse

Tools and Technologies

Scalar
TEI

The Bow in the Cloud is an anti-slavery anthology that was published in 1834 by the London firm of Walford & Jackson, in St. Paul’s Churchyard. The anthology consists of 85 …

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Melville’s Marginalia Online

By Christopher Ohge

Project duration: 2003 -

Source Materials

Author's books
Bibliography
Marginalia

Tools and Technologies

Relational database
XML

Melville’s Marginalia Online is an electronic catalog of books owned and borrowed by American author Herman Melville, and a digital edition of marked and annotated books that survive from his library.

Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing

By Noelle Baker

Project duration: 2019 -

Source Materials

Commonplace Books
Correspondence
Financial Records
Journals
Oral Interviews
Speeches

Tools and Technologies

Scholarly Editing is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal committed to the development and advancement of all aspects of textual and documentary editing, including the recovery of texts and artifacts that represent …

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SourceLab

By Rhiannon Hein

Project duration: 2015 -

Source Materials

Articles
Correspondence
Journals
Marginalia
Oral Interviews
Videos

Tools and Technologies

Scalar
StoryMap JS
WordPress

Mission SourceLab, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, creates a new kind of space within college education where students can learn and practice the skills they need to …

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The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition

By Noelle Baker

Project duration: 2010 -

Source Materials

Commonplace Books
Correspondence
Journals
Verse

Tools and Technologies

The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition is a collaboration between Noelle A. Baker, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, and the staff of the Women Writers Project (WWP). Together, …

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The Charles Dickens Letters Project

By Emily Middleton

Project duration: 2016 -

Source Materials

Correspondence

Tools and Technologies

Drupal
Microsoft Word

This online resource publishes, free of charge, all the correspondence of Charles Dickens which has come to light since 2002, the year in which the final volume of the Pilgrim Edition …

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The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive

By Kenneth Price

Project duration: 1997 -

Source Materials

Author's books
Bibliography
Correspondence
Fiction
Marginalia
Speeches

Tools and Technologies

Relational database
TEI
XML

The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive seeks to make Chesnutt’s writings conveniently accessible to all. Writing in the years after Reconstruction as white supremacy took new virulent forms, Chesnutt addressed topics of …

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The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore

By Michael Cohen

Project duration: 2020 -

Source Materials

Correspondence

Tools and Technologies

CINDEX
DocTracker
Microsoft Word
WordPress

Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore are not the most famous of presidents. Yet they led America during important and tumultuous years. Taylor, as an army general, commanded troops in Texas …

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The George Washington Financial Papers Project

By Jennifer Stertzer

Project duration: 2013 -

Source Materials

Financial Records

Tools and Technologies

Drupal
StoryMap JS
Timeline JS

The GWFPP exists at the intersection of two challenges editors currently face: managing complicated editorial work and navigating the world of digital publication. The project focuses on a particularly difficult …

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The History of the Society of Authors, 1884–1914

By Emily Middleton

Project duration: 2020 -

Source Materials

Articles
Fiction

Tools and Technologies

Omeka
Timeline JS

The Incorporated Society of Authors, founded in 1884 by the novelist Walter Besant (and continuing in existence to this day), occupied a prominent place in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century literary …

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The Howard Thurman Papers Project

By Silvia Glick

Project duration: 1992 -

Source Materials

Articles
Author's books
Correspondence
Journals
Oral Interviews
Sermons
Speeches

Tools and Technologies

Drupal
Microsoft Word
Relational database
Timeline JS

Founded in 1992, the mission of the Howard Thurman Papers Project is to preserve and promote Thurman’s vast documentary record, which spans 63 years and consists of approximately 58,000 items …

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The Jane Addams Papers Project

By Cathy Moran Hajo

Project duration: 2015 -

Source Materials

Articles
Correspondence
Speeches

Tools and Technologies

CINDEX
Microsoft Word
Omeka
WordPress

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was one of America’s most famous social justice reformers. A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Addams was dubbed “America’s foremost woman” more than a century ago, when her …

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The Margaret Sanger Papers Project

By Cathy Moran Hajo

Project duration: 1985 - 2016

Source Materials

Articles
Correspondence
Financial Records
Organizational Records
Speeches

Tools and Technologies

CINDEX
TEI

The Margaret Sanger Papers Project was a historical editing project initially sponsored by the Department of History and then by the Division of Libraries at New York University. The Project …

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The Walt Whitman Archive

By Kenneth Price

Project duration: 1995 -

Source Materials

Articles
Author's books
Bibliography
Commonplace Books
Correspondence
Fiction
Financial Records
Journals
Marginalia
Oral Interviews
Organizational Records
Speeches
Verse

Tools and Technologies

Relational database
TEI
XML

The Walt Whitman Archive endeavors to make Whitman’s vast work freely and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. Whitman, America’s most influential poet and a writer of global renown, is …

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Viola Muse Digital Edition

By Clayton McCarl

Project duration: 2021 -

Source Materials

Archival and Special Collections
Fieldnotes

Tools and Technologies

Omeka
TEI

The Viola Muse Digital Edition (VMDE) presents the notes and drafts prepared by Viola B. Muse (1898-1981), who worked from 1936 through 1939 as an interviewer and writer in the …

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