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...and now what?

Learn about the process of project modelling in digital humanities, including project aims, outcomes, timing, funding, and staffing. Discover the importance of breaking down projects into manageable tasks, determining timelines, and distributing work packages. Explore case studies of projects like the Hamlet digital edition and the Early English Books Online. Understand the challenges and complexities of project management, quality assurance, and outcome design.

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...and now what?

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  1. ...and now what? • Digital.Humanities • @oxford summer school Pip Willcox Digital Editor Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services

  2. Project modelling:what is it? • The process of drawing up plans to deliver promised outcomes.

  3. Taken as read • Project aims • Project outcomes • Project timing • Funding model and scale • Partners and staffing

  4. What’s left? • Project management • Quality assurance • Responsibilities • Outcome design • Surprises

  5. Why model? • Turning your swanky project into reality: • Breaking the project into achievable, organizable tasks • Determining timeline • Distribution of work packages • Performance, feedback, revision

  6. How?

  7. The origins: the pre-1642 quartos from • Other project partners http://quartos.org/

  8. Complementing the British Library’s Shakespeare in Quarto website • 1 copy of 21 plays in 73 editions • http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html

  9. Goals • Create an interface to support teaching and learning, and to widen access • Create a digital edition of every copy of 1 play • Hamlet

  10. Why Hamlet? • At least 1 copy of Hamlet in each partner library • Textual complexity • Cultural icon

  11. Modelling Hamlet • Inspired by the image resource • Individual copies • Legible • Searchable • Text Encoding Initiative p5: boutique editing

  12. …a creature native and indued / Unto that element • Consulting stake-holders: • Advisory Forum • Discussion board • Professionally facilitated website evaluation

  13. Project priorities • Provide images and texts online and for download (Creative Commons) • Accurate transcriptions • Include copy-specific data • Support users’ learning and research • Project documentation

  14. Complications

  15. Key modelling elements • Breaking the project into achievable, organizable tasks • Distribution of work packages • Communication (and enthusiasm)

  16. From boutique editing to mass digitization

  17. ProQuest’s Early English Books Online • Text Creation Partnership, University of Oxford and University of Michigan • Providing digital images and full texts of books printed in England and English, (1473-1700)

  18. http://eebo.chadwyck.com/

  19. Project scale • 126 925 bibliographic STC records • 117 260 digitized microfilm image sets • Phase I provided 25 369 full texts, available to partner institutions

  20. Text creation Image taken from http://eebo.chadwyck.com/.

  21. Aims of Phase II • Build on Phase I, which created 25 000 digital editions in 7 years • Complete the digital corpus of unique English language titles in the STC • Produce 44 000 digital editions in 5 years

  22. Don’t panic

  23. Don’t panic • Revisit funding model • Revisit transcription and editing procedures • Revisit staffing levels • 2.5 years in, 39% of texts are completed or in process

  24. Why not use OCR? Images taken from http://eebo.chadwyck.com/.

  25. Key modelling elements • Determining timeline • Performance, feedback, revision • Communication (and enthusiasm)

  26. Mass digitization to store-cupboard editing Register of The Stationers’ Company

  27. Register of The Stationers’ Company • Small-scale pilot project • Internal university funding

  28. Register of The Stationers’ Company Edward Arber, A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers 1554-1640 AD, 5 vols, (London and Birmingham, 1875).

  29. If I may... • Ask • Make mistakes • Adapt • Plan for surprise

  30. Fail • “Be willing to fail a lot” • “Fail on a survivable scale” • “Spot a failure and fix it early” Tim Harford,Adapt: Why success always starts with failure (Little, Brown, 2011).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_mCvb-KyY&feature=player_embedded Accessed 24 July 2011

  31. Remember • “The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else.” • Rufus Pollock, • Co-Founder and Director, Open Knowledge Foundation • http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2007/05/xtech_day_3_rufus_pollock_and_.php • Accessed 24 July 2011

  32. Pip Willcox Digital Editor Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk http://eebo.chadwyck.com http://quartos.org

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