Berkman Center Among Collaborators in Online Emily Dickinson Archive, Now Live | Berkman Center

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-10-23

Summary:

"The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is honored to be among a group of collaborators to present the Emily Dickinson Archive (EDA), live as of today. EDA presents a novel way to view and interact with digitized visual material, transcribed and annotated textual content, and library-generated metadata.  The Berkman Center was instrumental in developing the Archive's platform, and collaborated with multiple stakeholders across Harvard to create it.  The underlying tool was built to leverage any digital collection, for which the reference implementation is the Emily Dickinson collection. The Berkman Center will soon made this open-source platform available for use by other projects that may want to take advantage of its features. The tool was built by Berkman developers Justin Clark and Ryan Westphal, supported by the efforts of Sebastian Diaz and Jennifer Jubinville. For the first time, the majority of Emily Dickinson’s poems are available in open access for use by scholars and readers. The Archive contains high-resolution images of manuscripts and letters, coupled with transcriptions of the poetry by various editors. It features a number of tools to ease collaboration and research, such as a digital concordance to allow for scholars to compare word choice across the poetry. In their press release, Harvard University Press wrote of the significance of the Archive ..."

Link:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8597

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.ssh oa.green oa.libraries oa.ch oa.floss oa.arts oa.glam oa.berkman_center oa.archives oa.literature oa.poetry oa.repositories oa.announcements

Authors:

dwalters

Date tagged:

10/23/2013, 14:20

Date published:

10/23/2013, 04:11