WWP Publications and Presentations

Women Writers Online and Related Resources

• Women Writers Online, a digital collection of early women’s writing in English
• Women Writers in Context, a collection of scholarly essays and explorations of women's writing
• WWP Curricular Materials, including teaching materials and a searchable database of syllabi
• Women Writers in Review, a collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reviews, publication notices, literary histories, and other texts responding to works by early women writers
• Women Writers: Intertextual Networks, an interface for exploring the texts that WWO authors quote, cite, name, or otherwise reference.
• WWP Lab, a space where the WWP publishes experimental visualizations, datasets, publications, and other resources for exploring early women’s writing.

Reports on Grant-Funded Work

• Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist, 2018–2022, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Research report
• Intertextual Networks, 2016–2020, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: White Paper
• Taking TEI Further, 2011–2016, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Final report and white paper
• Cultures of Reception, 2010–2015, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Final report
• Encoding Names for Contextual Exploration in Digital Thematic Research Collections, 2008–2009, funded by NEH: Final report and white paper
• Seminars in Humanities Text Encoding with TEI, 2007–2009, funded by NEH: Final report
• Creating a Guide for Encoding Early Printed Books, 2003–2006, funded by NEH: Final report
• A Textbase of Pre-Victorian Women’s Writing in English, 1997–2000, funded by NEH: Final report
• Renaissance Women Online, 1997–1999, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Initial report and final report

Documentation

• A Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding: A detailed reference and guide to text encoding with TEI. The WWP Guide is an online resource designed to help scholars grapple with the whys and hows of text encoding. Clear, jargon-free, and aimed at a humanities audience, the Guide explains text encoding and XML markup from the ground up and provides detailed explanations of how to use the TEI Guidelines in scholarly digital projects.
• Women Writers Project Encoding Documentation: The WWP’s internal documentation database.
• Women Writers Project Training Materials: Various tutorials, training guides, and hotsheets.

Publications and Presentations

Here are a few of the publications that WWP staff have published recently on topics such as markup, data modeling, and the digital humanities. You can see a longer list of publications and presentations here.

• Bauman, Syd. “Interchange vs. Interoperability.” Presented at at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011, Montréal, Canada, 2011. Published in Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies 7 (2011).
• Bauman, Syd, and Kathryn Tomasek. “Encoding Historical Financial Records.” Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 6 (2013).
• Flanders, Julia, and Scott Hamlin. “TAPAS: Building a TEI Publishing and Repository Service.” Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 5 (2013).
• Flanders, Julia. “Rethinking Collections.” In Advancing the Digital Humanities, ed. Katherine Bode and Paul Arthur. Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.
• Clark, Ash and Sarah Connell. “Meta(data)morphosis.” Presented at at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016, Washington D.C., and published in Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies 17 (2016).
• Flanders, Julia and Fotis Jannadis. “Data Modeling.” In A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
• Flanders, Julia, Syd Bauman, and Sarah Connell. “XSLT.” and “Text Encoding with TEI.” In Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, and Research, ed. Constance Crompton, Ray Siemens, and Richard Lane. Routledge Press, 2016.
• Flanders, Julia. “Building Otherwise: Gender, Race, and Difference in the Digital Humanities.” In Feminist Debates in Digital Humanities, ed. Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh. 2016.
• Flanders, Julia. “Curation.” In Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments, ed. Rebecca Frost Davis, Matt Gold, Katherine Harris, and Jentery Sayers. Modern Language Association. 2016.
• Connell, Sarah, Julia Flanders, Nicole Infanta Keller, Elizabeth Polcha, and William Reed Quinn. “Learning from the Past: The Women Writers Project and Thirty Years of Humanities Text Encoding.” Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals 4 (2017).
• Flanders, Julia. The Shape of Data (co-editor, with Fotis Jannidis). Routledge Press. 2018.
• Flanders, Julia and Sarah Connell. “Quality assurance under conditions of scale and complexity.” Parameters (2018).
• Campbell, Sarah, Zheng-Yan Yu, Sarah Connell and Cody Dunne. “Close and Distant Reading via Named Entity Network Visualization: A Case Study of Women Writers Online.” Presented at the 2018 Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, IEEE VIS, in Berlin, Germany.
• Flanders, Julia and Sarah Connell. “Writing, Reception, Intertextuality: Networking Women’s Writing.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. (2020).
• Messina, Cara Marta, Sarah Connell, Julia Flanders, Caroline Klibanoff, Sarah Payne. “Pedagogy, Collaboration, and Sociality as Design Principles in Digital Humanities Projects.” Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities. Iter Press. (2021).
• Connell, Sarah. “‘If you can command these elements’: TEI Markup as Shakespearean Interface.” The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface. Paul Budra and Clifford Werier, eds. Routledge. 2022.
• Connell, Sarah. “Companions, Competitors, Contexts: Margaret Cavendish in Women Writers Online.” Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Brandie Siegfried and Lisa Walters, eds. Cambridge University Press. 2022.
• Clark, Ash. “A Wonderful Historie of Intertextual Networks: Or, How Not to Index Your Data.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2023, Washington, D.C., and published in Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2023. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies 28 (2023).
• Connell, Sarah. “Prince & Digital Humanities.” Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince. Nicole Aljoe, ed. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming 2024.