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1 Editorial Practices and the Web
Friday Afternoon Seminar 3 February 2012

2 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

3 Project Workflow Gather Sources ??? Publish final product

4 Case Project: Emma Goldman Papers

5 Case Project: Emma Goldman Papers

6 Case Project: Emma Goldman Papers

7 Case Project: Emma Goldman Papers

8 Case Project: Emma Goldman Papers

9 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

10 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

11 Project Workflow Gather Sources ??? Publish final product

12 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

13 Project Workflow Gather Sources ??? Publish final product

14 Whither “???” Multiple entry points for “notes”
“Tasks” to organize and track work Goals Preservation Reusability Flexibility Controlled chaos

15 Public Involvement Crowdsourcing Scholarly contribution
Finding redundant information Group transcription of scanned documents Scholarly contribution Project hibernation & awakening

16 Thank You Patrick Golden ptgolden@berkeley.edu
Ryan Shaw Project information: Project site:


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