Thomas Dabbs speaks with Laura Mandell of Texas A&M University and director of the university's Center of Digital Humanities Research or CoDHR. The CoDHR is the publisher of the New Variorum Shakespeare, a project that is working to provide open Internet access to the full history of Shakespearean editions and annotations, and much, much more:
The CoDHR supports a dazzling array of DH projects in the areas of digital development and in multidisciplinary research and publication. Among Laura's many contributions to scholarship, is her monograph, or better, manifesto, entitled “Breaking the Book,” which works to reveal why there remains a resistance to the digital humanities in traditional humanities disciplines.
[LINKS]
New Variorum Shakespeare: https://newvariorumshakespeare.org
Jullia Flanders TEI-c.org: https://tei-c.org
IATH: http://www.iath.virginia.edu
The Poetess Archive: https://poetess.dh.tamu.edu/index.html
Blake Archive: http://www.blakearchive.org
ARC: https://arc.dh.tamu.edu
[SEGMENTS]
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:36 - The New Variorum Shakespeare (online)
00:13:38 - The advantages of TEI
00:17:24 - Encoding challenges and solutions
00:27:32 - 18th-century, The Poetess Archive
00:30:26 - Searchable databases in literary study
00:32:00 - Shakespeare in the 18th century
00:34:45 - Women in 18th-century literature
00:37:22 - Visualizing digitized literature, William Blake
00:40:22 - IIIF compliance and sharing images
00:43:47 - Keeping women in the digital canon, gender marking
00:51:33 - The value of building digital resources, ARC
01:03:44 - Evaluating digital contributions in the profession
01:08:09 - Closing remarks