Rotunda - New Digital Scholarship

New Founding Era platform and Adams Papers

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:44:13 -0500

Rotunda today releases our beta version of the entirely redesigned American Founding Era platform and the first of our publications to be included in it, The Adams Papers Digital Edition.

The new platform provides a single entry point into all of the separate publications of The American Founding Era. Searching can be done across the entire collection, and chronological navigation at the top level combines all documents in the collection into a single tree organized by decade, year, month, and day. Content from our existing Founding Era publications, The Dolley Madison Digital Edition and The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, has been included in the consolidated platform. (Once work on the Founders platform is complete, the original version of PGWDE will no longer be maintained. Because the
DMDE contains a unique interface based on features not shared by other Founders projects, it will continue to exist in its full form as a standalone publication.)

Our digital edition of The Adams Papers is based on 30 volumes from the letterpress edition created by the Massachusetts Historical Society and published by Harvard University Press. Like PGWDE, it is fully searchable and can be navigated following either chronology or the ordering of the print volumes.

ROTUNDA on the W3C Website

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:24:00 +0000

The Dolley Madison Digital Edition is noted as an example of XQuery in Action on the World Wide Web Consortium's XQuery page.

PGWDE named a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2007

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:22:44 +0000

ROTUNDA’s Papers of George Washington Digital Edition has been named as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles 2007 by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine.

Strong Reviews for Papers of George Washington Digital Edition

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:27:34 +0000

The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition has recently received two strong recommendations from reviewers in the library community. Cheryl LaGuardia’s eReview for Library Journal awards it a 9.5 on her 10-point scale. A review in the August 2007 issue of CHOICE calls PGWDE “a notable achievement” that “weaves a web of cross-referencing and indexing that permits researchers an ease of access not possible using only the print” edition, and ranks it as “highly recommended” for all academic collections (CHOICE Reviews Online, August 2007 [articles viewable by subscribers only]).

Dolley Madison Digital Edition updates

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:31:18 +0000

The second installment of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition is published, adding nearly two hundred documents written after James Madison’s death on June 28, 1836, and extending the chronology of the DMDE through early April 1837. New features include an expanded biographical introduction; detailed editorial notes on topics of relevance to multiple letters; improved searching; and an entirely new Place Browser. See the DMDE What’s New page for full details.

Rotunda named "most innovative" digital project

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:00:00 +0000

In a plenary session at the 2007 meeting of the Assocation of American University Presses, publishing consultant and guru Joseph Esposito (former president of Merriam-Webster and CEO of Encyclopaedia Britannica) refers to Rotunda as his first choice for the "most innovative" digital project sponsored by a university press.

Improvements to Papers of George Washington Digital Edition

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:25:00 +0000

The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition has been upgraded in two areas. Names of authors and recipients on the search page have been regularized, and repository symbols in the edition have been updated to conform to the current MARC standards. Please see the PGWDE News page for full details.

Holly Shulman on Digital History

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:56:01 +0000

Holly Shulman, editor of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, recently published an article on the History News Network reflecting on her experience creating a born-digital historical edition: “Doing Digital History,” 8 January 2007.

Papers of George Washington Digital Edition now online

Theodore J. Crackel, editor in chief — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:00:00 +0000

All 52 volumes of the celebrated print edition, encompassing five series and the complete diaries, are now available in one XML-based publication. Users may search on full text and by date, author, and recipient. The exceptional indexing of the print volumes is combined here into a single master index, and all internal document cross-references are linked. The content may be navigated by series, date, or index entry.

Design honor for ROTUNDA logo

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:03:21 +0000

The Rotunda logo created by the Ventress Design Group has been recognized in the 2006 edition of Global Corporate Identity edited by David E. Carter, an annual volume that “showcases the past year’s best corporate designs in the categories of logos, letterheads, package design, complete identity programs, corporate identity manuals, signage & environmental graphics, and corporate brochures.”

NEH grant for Dolley Madison Digital Edition

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:01:51 +0000

Holly Shulman, editor of the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, was the June 2006 recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for completion of the DMDE and the launch of Women of the Founding Era.

First British Edition of Typee

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:32:23 +0000

We have added a digital version of the first British edition of Typee to John Bryant’s Herman Melville’s “Typee”: A Fluid-Text Edition. This version includes a complete transcription of the edition along with digital images of each page, plus the book covers and spine. To the best of our knowledge this is the first complete online version of this important edition of the novel.

New Production Server

Wed, 10 May 2006 17:33:12 +0000

Rotunda has a new production server hosting rotunda.upress.virginia.edu, a dual-processor Dell 3.8GHz machine running Red Hat Linux. This should make searching and retrieval of our publications much speedier.

Upgrade to Arnold Letters index

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:03:27 +0000

In the online index, page references to the introduction from volume 1 of the print edition were previously unlinked. They are now active hyperlinks to the start of the "page" in the digital edition.

Rotunda launches 19th-Century Collection

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:30:05 +0000

Rotunda has launched its second collection, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. This series contains both born-digital editions (John Bryant's "fluid-text" edition of Herman Melville's Typee, Christopher Mulvey's edition of all four versions of the novel Clotel) and digitized versions of previous UVa Press publications that add full-text searching, linked cross-references, and other online-only features.

Rotunda's Web pages have also been redesigned to add:

Collections pages with capsule descriptions
Collection-wide searching
An RSS feed for updates on new publications and additions to existing ones

Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States

William Wells Brown (ed. Christopher Mulvey) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:28:41 +0000

The first African American novel, Clotel was published in 1853 in London, when its author was still legally a slave in the United States. This digital edition presents, for the first time together, the full extant texts of the novel's four versions, which may be read individually or in parallel.

Herman Melville's "Typee": A Fluid-Text Edition

John Bryant (editor) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:28:27 +0000

Working from the existing chapters of Melville's own draft of Typee, John Bryant attempts to re-create the novel's actual writing process as a chronological sequence. This edition also offers a complete diplomatic transcription of the manuscript and a high-resolution photograph of each manuscript page.

The Letters of Matthew Arnold

Cecil Y. Lang (editor) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:28:23 +0000

Matthew Arnold was the preeminent poet/critic of the second half of the nineteenth century. Including nearly 4,000 letters, this work represents the most comprehensive and assiduously annotated collection of his correspondence available.

The Letters of Christina Rossetti

Antony H. Harrison (editor) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:28:18 +0000

Christina Rossetti has come to be considered one of the major poets of the Victorian era. Combining all four volumes of the print edition, this archive makes available all of Rossetti's extant letters, almost two-thirds of which had never been published.

Journal of Emily Shore: Revised and Expanded

Barbara Timm Gates (editor) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:28:13 +0000

This precocious young Victorian woman wrote of politics, natural history, her progress as a scholar and scientist, the worlds of art and literature. Emily Shore wrote, too, of her illness and impending death. Her journal is a record of a brief but remarkable life, and this new digital edition is expanded to include transcriptions from two recently discovered manuscript volumes and a new introduction by the editor.

The Dolley Madison Digital Edition

Holly C. Shulman (editor) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:28:07 +0000

This first installment contains over 700 letters, through June 1836, with some 2,000 additional letters to follow in periodic updates. An XML-based archive, the Digital Edition offers a powerful selection of search tools, allowing users to perform simple or advanced searches by period, correspondent, or topic. The letters may also be accessed directly through a comprehensive, sortable list or read in chronological order.