Projects

Projects in the eLaboratories community.

Center for Digital Editing

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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Project duration: 2021 -
Source Materials
  • open-access visualization interface
Tools and Technologies
  • TEI

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

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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

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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

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Project duration: 2019 -
Source Materials
  • Commonplace Books
  • Correspondence
  • Financial Records
  • Journals
  • Oral Interviews
  • Speeches
Tools and Technologies
  • TEI

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

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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 Charles W. Chesnutt Archive

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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 Howard Thurman Papers Project

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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 Walt Whitman Archive

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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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