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The Performance Poetry Preservation Project

Posted by The Performance... on July 9, 2016

The Performance Poetry Preservation Project (P4) is the only community-supported, grassroots organization dedicated to protecting and preserving the recorded history of the poetry slam movement. P4 possesses a living, growing, and carefully curated performance poetry archive, one whose ambition is to collect and catalog a broad representation of the slam poetry movement.

Academic field

American history, 20th-century literature, poetry, performance studies, Sociology, Anthropolgy, Women's Studies, african american studies, Humanities and Social Sciences

Help type

Data entry, Design, General digital humanities consulting, Programming

Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive

Posted by Alexander Huber on May 1, 2016

The Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive — ECPA — is a collaborative digital archive and research project devoted to the poetry of the long eighteenth century. Edited and annotated collaboratively, the growing ECPA corpus builds on the electronic texts created by the Text Creation Partnership from Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). ECPA was founded and is edited by Alexander Huber, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (editor of the Thomas Gray Archive).

Academic field

poetry, 17th-18th Century English literature, English Language and Literature

Help type

Beta testing, Peer review

Apprenticeship in Early Modern Venice: the Garzoni project

Posted by Maud Ehrmann on April 1, 2016

Led by an interdisciplinary consortium, the Garzoni project undertakes the study of apprenticeship, work and society in early modern Venice by focusing on a specific archival source, namely the `Accordi dei Garzoni' from the Venetian State Archives. The project revolves around two main phases with, in the first instance, the design and the development of tools to extract and render information contained in the documents (according to Semantic Web standards) and, as a second step, the examination of such information.

Academic field

Digital Humanities, History, Art History

Help type

General digital humanities consulting

Digital Mishnah Project

Posted by Hayim Lapin on April 22, 2015

The Digital Mishnah Project aims to create a born digital edition of the Mishnah providing transcription of witnesses, alignment of variant readings, tools for statistical study of relationships among the texts (including stemmatology). In collaboration with other projects it will also provide morphological analysis of lexical items and aligned translation.

Academic field

Social history, Textual Criticism, Jewish Studies

Help type

General digital humanities consulting, Programming, Proofreading