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Textual Studies and Digital Humanities: Projects in UW Special Collections

This guide supports UW's undergraduate Minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities and the Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies.

TXTDS Projects with UW Special Collections

UW Libraries Special collections is a treasure to explore with rare books, manuscripts, papers, records, photographs, moving images and architectural drawings.

Example TXTDS projects using Special Collections materials

Riley Hull, Trisha Binwade, Tara Boyd: “The Ladies’ Handbook of Fancy and Ornamental Work” (see the TEI-XML edition), a TEI edition of a 19th-century handbook on ornamental work.

Jules Lockett, Sofia Posada, and Nic Staley: “Jasper N. Bertram Papers” (TEI-XML edition). Encoded in TEI, a sample of documents from the late 19th and early 20th-century papers of Jasper Bertram.

Ray Molinar worked in UW Libraries’ Special Collections digitizing various pages from graphic novels, writing metadata for the objects following DublinCore Standards, and then mounting physical copies of those digital objects for UW Special Collections’ exhibit: "The Medium is The Message: Lived Experience is the Story."

Alex Seo created the 19th Century Publishers' Bindings Database for Special Collections, now accessible from SC computers. This database provides a visual and readable guide for a portion of publishers' bindings that belong to UW. Read more about Alex' experiences building the database.