Stainforth Blog

  DH Stainforth work as an RA was experiential by nature. In other words, there wasn’t an aspect of Stainforth editing that is not experiential learning, according to the editors (or from what I gleaned from their interviews) Communication was a key component, especially in terms of feeling part of a collaborative team. They noticed … Continue reading Experiential Learning in the Stainforth Project: RA Take-aways

Because I have been so lucky to work with fantastic researchers/students here at Dartmouth and at CU Boulder to work on the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing, Dartmouth’s Digital Humanities librarians asked me to present on experiential learning in DH. As a doctoral student, I was also paid to work on a professor’s DH projects … Continue reading RA Interviews on Experiential Learning and The Stainforth Project

As a research assistant for the Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing, one of my jobs has been to help transcribe and edit the entries in Stainforth’s manuscript into a Google spreadsheet—an activity that involves hours of staring at digitized versions of handwritten manuscript pages. The task may seem tedious—and, well, it is—but doing this kind … Continue reading Rossetti and Typeface: Thinking Like a DH Archivist

https://storify.com/KLeuner/s522-mla-2016 Speakers: Eric Loy (U Rochester), Kirstyn Leuner (Dartmouth C), Ryan Cordell (Northeastern U) Organized by Lindsey Eckert (Georgia State U), moderated by Megan Peiser (U of Missouri)

My (Kirstyn’s) portion of Team Stainforth’s presentation today will illustrate the origins of the project and the process of turning the Stainforth library catalog manuscript into data, or machine-readable and electronically shareable text. Since I am condensing 3 years of work into a few minutes, I want to use our project blog to emphasize two … Continue reading 11-16-15 Team Stainforth Presentation, Norlin Library

Please join us! The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing project team will be holding a brown-bag lunch on Monday, November 16th, at noon, in Norlin M210. We are a digital humanities group building an electronic edition of Francis Stainforth’s 19th-century private library–the largest private library of women’s writing in the 19th century. This is a … Continue reading The Digital Humanities for Lunch, with the Stainforth Team – 11/16, noon, M210 Norlin Library, CU-Boulder

We have for a few weeks now had all of our edited transcription files combined in one master Google Sheet instead of in 509 separate Google Sheets. This has enabled all kinds of editorial work necessary to parse our transcriptions in our database. But it also enables us to do fun things like start to … Continue reading C9 Potter (Miss) Poetry of Nature [1789]

I always want to blog about the Stainforth Library authors and works I come across while transcribing, editing data, or encoding, and yet I have a very hard time stopping what I’m doing to actually do this–that is, to share the non-canonical authors that we find during our work, and even the canonical authors that … Continue reading Stopping to Smell Our Data Points: Muggletonians, Ester Sowernam, and Maria Ruth Sanders

Today we’re celebrating a project milestone: the team completed the transcription and editing for all of the pages (1-507) of Stainforth’s library catalog manuscript. We began transcribing the library catalog manuscript in January of 2014. After finishing the transcription in the fall/winter of 2014, we began editing all of the transcribed data in early March … Continue reading Project Milestone: Completed Transcription and Editing of Library Catalog