{"id":11639,"date":"2014-01-24T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=11639"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:00:33","slug":"shelley-godwin-archive-textual-digital-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/shelley-godwin-archive-textual-digital-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shelley-Godwin Archive: From a Textual to a Digital Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

At MITH we have been experimenting with the networked, distributed transcription and encoding of manuscripts during the first phase of our work on the Shelley-Godwin Archive<\/a>, a project that aims to provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft. The Archive will thus bring together for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers<\/a>. The result of a partnership between the New York Public Library and MITH, in cooperation with Oxford\u2019s Bodleian Library, the Archive also includes key contributions from the Huntington Library, the British Library, and the Houghton Library. In total, these partner libraries contain over 90% of all known relevant manuscripts.<\/p>\n

The most immediate goal for the Archive\u2019s current first phase is to provide access to page images under open licenses of as many of these manuscripts as possible, through a series of public releases. These began on Halloween with the release of the fully transcribed and encoded\u00a0Frankenstein Notebooks<\/a>, containing all known draft and fair copy of the novel. Frankenstein<\/i> will be followed in the Spring by the fully transcribed and encoded fair-copy manuscripts of\u00a0Percy Shelley\u2019s greatest poem, Prometheus Unbound<\/i>. Typically, given the limits of funding and labor, the digitized manuscripts of the Archive will be publicly released in one of three forms of development:<\/p>\n