1. ...and now what? Digital.Humanities @oxford summer school Pip Willcox Digital Editor Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services

2. Project modelling: what is it? The process of drawing up plans to deliver promised outcomes.

3. Taken as read Project aims Project outcomes Project timing Funding model and scale Partners and staffing

4. What’s left? Project management Quality assurance Responsibilities Outcome design Surprises

5. Why model? Turning your swanky project into reality: Breaking the project into achievable, organizable tasks Determining timeline Distribution of work packages Performance, feedback, revision

6. How?

7. The origins: the pre-1642 quartos from Other project partners http://quartos.org/

8. Complementing the British Library’s Shakespeare in Quarto website 1 copy of 21 plays in 73 editions http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html

9. Goals Create an interface to support teaching and learning, and to widen access Create a digital edition of every copy of 1 play Hamlet

10. Why Hamlet? At least 1 copy of Hamlet in each partner library Textual complexity Cultural icon

11. Modelling Hamlet Inspired by the image resource Individual copies Legible Searchable Text Encoding Initiative p5: boutique editing

13. Consulting stake-holders: Advisory Forum Discussion board Professionally facilitated website evaluation … a creature native and indued / Unto that element

14. Project priorities Provide images and texts online and for download (Creative Commons) Accurate transcriptions Include copy-specific data Support users’ learning and research Project documentation

15. Complications

18. Key modelling elements Breaking the project into achievable, organizable tasks Distribution of work packages Communication (and enthusiasm)

19. From boutique editing to mass digitization

20. ProQuest’s Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, University of Oxford and University of Michigan Providing digital images and full texts of books printed in England and English, (1473-1700)

21. http://eebo.chadwyck.com/

22. Project scale 126 925 bibliographic STC records 117 260 digitized microfilm image sets Phase I provided 25 369 full texts, available to partner institutions

23. Text creation Image taken from http://eebo.chadwyck.com/.http://eebo.chadwyck.com/

24. Aims of Phase II Build on Phase I, which created 25 000 digital editions in 7 years Complete the digital corpus of unique English language titles in the STC Produce 44 000 digital editions in 5 years

25. Don’t panic

26. Revisit funding model Revisit transcription and editing procedures Revisit staffing levels 2.5 years in, 39% of texts are completed or in process Don’t panic

27. Why not use OCR? Images taken from http://eebo.chadwyck.com/.http://eebo.chadwyck.com/

28. Key modelling elements Determining timeline Performance, feedback, revision Communication (and enthusiasm)

29. Mass digitization to store-cupboard editing Register of The Stationers’ Company

30. Small-scale pilot project Internal university funding Register of The Stationers’ Company

31. Register of The Stationers’ Company Edward Arber, A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers 1554-1640 AD, 5 vols, (London and Birmingham, 1875).

32. If I may... Ask Make mistakes Adapt Plan for surprise

33. Fail “Be willing to fail a lot” “Fail on a survivable scale” “Spot a failure and fix it early” Tim Harford, Adapt: Why success always starts with failure (Little, Brown, 2011). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_mCvb-KyY&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_mCvb-KyY&feature=player_embedded Accessed 24 July 2011

34. Remember “The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else.” Rufus Pollock, Co-Founder and Director, Open Knowledge Foundation http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2007/05/xtech_day_3_rufus_pollock_and_.php Accessed 24 July 2011

35. Pip Willcox Digital Editor Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk http://quartos.org http://eebo.chadwyck.com