Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use
Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use
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2009-05
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Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Kirschenbaum, Matthew
Farr, Erika
Kraus, Kari M.
Nelson, Naomi L
Stollar Peters, Catherine
Redwine, Gabriela
Reside, Doug
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Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use / by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Erika Farr, Kari M. Kraus, Naomi L. Nelson, Catherine Stollar Peters, Gabriela Redwine, Doug Reside
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Digital Humanities Level 1 Start-Up funding ($11,708) was received in support of a series of site visits and planning meetings for personnel working with the born-digital components of three significant collections of literary material: the Salman Rushdie papers at Emory University’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL), the Michael Joyce Papers (and other collections) at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at
Austin, and the Deena Larsen Collection at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland. The meetings and site visits were undertaken with the two-fold objective of exchanging knowledge amongst the still relatively small community of practitioners engaged in such efforts, and facilitating the preparation of a larger collaborative project proposal aimed at preserving and accessing the born-digital documents and records of contemporary authorship. The grant period was September 2008-March 2009. The only specified deliverable was this white paper; however, as the Outcomes and Next Steps sections (below) suggest, a small initial
investment by NEH has yielded significant benefit in the form of infrastructure, knowledge sharing, and future collaboration.