[open-humanities] Fwd: Darwin's correspondence

Tue Jan 15 09:47:47 UTC 2013

Thought this might be of interest - particularly to Iain regarding his work
on Open Correspondence project!

J.

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All are warmly invited to the below meeting.
London Digital Humanities Group Meeting

12 February 2013
5.15, Room S264, Senate House, Malet Street, London

'The Darwin Correspondence Project: an academic enterprise deeply embedded
in a Library setting' Dr Sophie Defrance (University of Cambridge)

The Darwin Correspondence Project is working in Cambridge University Library
to publish in hard copy the complete Correspondence of Charles Darwin. More
than 15,000 currently known letters written by or to Darwin will be
published, in full, by 2022.

Although the primary reason for the project and its main work has been to
transcribe and edit Darwin's correspondence for publication, the Project is
maintaining and constantly improving a website at the address
www.darwinproject.ac.uk. Its contents aim at making it possible to use the
material as the basis for education at all levels, and for informed research
by the general public.

An important part of the work of the Darwin Correspondence Project is, in
turn, to transform Darwin's letters into a coherent correspondence. This
includes: locating and evaluating missing letters, the creation and
maintenance of metadata at an item level, and the creation of new interfaces
for the retrieval of items in the correspondence. The online database of
letter summaries and transcriptions, and linked biographical information, is
a major primary resource provided by the site.

The seminar will present the Project structure, funding and subsequent
objectives and will evoke how the embedded work done by the project team
attract users to the library and insure a solid base of users for the
website.

All are welcome. To confirm your attendance, please complete the form at
goo.gl/7HBys

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