Suffragists Speak Carol Anderson Arti Kirch Rosalie Lack Sally Thomas

Suffragists Speak Project VISION –to build a multimedia “thematic archive”—a new online research publication model CONTENT –Oral histories, newspaper articles, books, photographs, newsreels, correspondence, diaries, audio (excerpts from interviews and suffragist songs) SEARCH and NAVIGATION –Multiple access points (keyword search, fielded searches, browse/sort) USERS –researchers, educators, others (allowing two levels of access: immediate and in-depth)

Content Development Core collection: Eight oral history manuscripts from Bancroft Library Books: Selections from three books published in period--no copyright conflict –Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens (1920) –The Story of the Woman’s Party by Inez Haynes Irwin (1921) –Hagar, a suffragist novel by Mary Johnston (1913) Newspaper articles: Articles, editorials and letters to the editor from the New York World and the Suffragist (collection of 30 transcribed and marked up)

Content Development Correspondence: Letters of Alice Paul and other suffragists obtained from National Woman’s Party microfilm; letters to and from Woodrow Wilson from the Papers of Woodrow Wilson book edition Songs: Music scores and lyrics of several popular suffragist songs retrieved from Music Library, to be performed and digitally recorded Scholarly articles: Granted permission to publish “Alice Paul and the Triumph of Militancy,” by Linda G. Ford in One Woman, One Vote, edited by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, NewSage Press, 1995.

Needs Assessment Interview with Elizabeth Sibley, Reference and Acquisitions Librarian from Government and Social Sciences Information Division, UCB Schedule interviews with history graduate students, historians, women’s studies scholars, high school students Further research: –Jeanette L. Blomberg, “Ethnography; Aligning Field Studies of Work and System Design,” in Andrew F. Monk and G. Nigel Gilbert (editors), Perspectives on HCI: Diverse Approaches (Academic Press, 1995) –Gary Marchionini, “User Interface for the National Digital Library Program: Needs Assessment Report,” February 1996 ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/3640html/3640.html –Ann Peterson Bishop, “Digital Libraries and Knowledge Disaggregation: The Use of Journal Article Components,” DL '98. Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Digital Libraries

Collaboration with Scholars Linda G. Ford –author of Iron-Jawed Angels: The Suffrage Militancy of the National Woman’s Party, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991)

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) - SGML Minimal Markup Chapter 1. In the beginning text of the paragraph not footnote #1 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) - SGML Additional Markup with type, key, and reg attribute Wilson Congress Washington, D. C. October 1

Database of Authority Names

Suffragists Speak Site Architecture

Technical Environment: DynaWeb Unix server-side plug-in to Web server and browser Underlying “textbase” application: DynaText Converts SGML to HTML on-the-fly –Stylesheets for each DTD More information and DynaWeb demos:

Standard DynaWeb UI 1. Table of Contents 2. Contents Frame 3. Button Bar 4. Search Panel

Technical Considerations UI Design –Constraints C++ “black box” and Tcl renderer Config files –Solution HTML front end Search Capabilities –Built-in sophisticated features –Access directly or via Perl script

Further Work Subject terms using controlled language – Identify document by type (oral history, newspaper article, correspondence, etc.) in document header to allow sorting by type Database vs. textbase Organization of items--scalability issues How to deal with multiple links Need for multiple user interfaces?

Suffragists Speak Carol Anderson Arti Kirch Rosalie Lack Sally Thomas