Editorial Practices and the Web Friday Afternoon Seminar 3 February 2012
Documentary Editing Editors prepare collections of documents: letters, articles, diaries, essays, etc. Printed volumes provide contextualization of the individual’s experience and general milieu through footnotes, images, chronologies, articles Much of research left in silos after project is finished
Project Workflow Gather Sources ??? Publish final product
Case Project: Emma Goldman Papers
Case Project: Emma Goldman Papers
Case Project: Emma Goldman Papers
Case Project: Emma Goldman Papers
Case Project: Emma Goldman Papers
Editors’ Notes http://ecai.org/mellon2010/ Finding a safe place for the “debris” of research Central focus on changing work practices of editors and researchers rather than digitizing what already exists
Technology Django Python web framework PostgreSQL database South for database migrations Haystack for full-text searching Zotero for document description Google Refine for duplicate detection
Project Workflow Gather Sources ??? Publish final product
Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ Ability to describe wide range of documents Read/write API Document information in easily parsed JSON format Citeproc-js for generation of citations and bibliographic references
Project Workflow Gather Sources ??? Publish final product
Whither “???” Multiple entry points for “notes” “Tasks” to organize and track work Goals Preservation Reusability Flexibility Controlled chaos
Public Involvement Crowdsourcing Scholarly contribution Finding redundant information Group transcription of scanned documents Scholarly contribution Project hibernation & awakening
Thank You Patrick Golden ptgolden@berkeley.edu Ryan Shaw ryanshaw@unc.edu Project information: http://ecai.org/mellon2010/ Project site: http://editorsnotes.org/