Acknowledgments
The University of Virginia Press wishes to thank The Founders, Washington Committee for Historic Mount Vernon, for a grant that has subsidized the digitization of the print volumes of The Papers of George Washington and much of the preparation of this digital edition. We are also grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the President’s Office of the University of Virginia for grants to underwrite the operations of Rotunda.
The Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association and the University of Virginia.
UVa Press thanks Daniel Pitti of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia and Erin Stalberg of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia for advice on document markup and metadata during preparation of PGWDE.
Web design for PGWDE, including background graphics, layout, and typography, was done by Bill Covert of Covert Designs, Charlottesville.
Our digital conversion vendor, Apex CoVantage of Herndon, Virginia, provided XML files to our specifications in a professional and expeditious manner. Preliminary proofreading of PGWDE material was done by Mary Ann French, Michael Holt, and Brian Murphy; Ross Blair mastered the difficult task of adding CSS formatting to our digitized tables. Late-stage proofreading was performed by codeMantra, LLC, of Philadelphia.
We also wish to acknowledge the following creators of commercial and open-source software tools that we have relied on for the preparation and delivery of PGWDE:
- MarkLogic Corporation of San Mateo, California, whose MarkLogic Server software provides the platform for our digital publications
- SyncRO Soft Ltd of Craiova, Romania, whose oXygen XML editing software is used daily by staff of both UVa Press and the Papers of George Washington
- Michael Kay of Saxonica, whose Saxon XSLT/XQuery processor has proven invaluable for preliminary work on our files
- Mikhail Grushinskiy, for development of the open-source XMLStarlet command-line processor, the “Swiss army knife” in our toolkit
- Dean Edwards, for development of the open-source IE7 JavaScript library that we are using to deliver CSS-compliant pages to older releases of Internet Explorer
- Oliver Bryant and Matthew Tagg, for development of the open-source BoxOver JavaScript code that powers our tooltips