The AustESE Project held its second workshop at the University of Queensland on 3 October.
After a summary of the project status from Roger Osborne, Anna Gerber, and Desmond Schmidt, the participants broke into groups to work on several mini projects that included the work of Katharine Susannah Prichard, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, and Malcolm Lowry.
Stepping through the scholarly editing workflow, participants uploaded transcriptions and images. They created metadata for the digital objects, the people involved, and the publishing and composition events that produced the artefacts under examination. They viewed the temporal and spatial data on the timeline and maps, and then sent their transcriptions to MVD to explore the versions.
AustESE Workshop II at the University of Queensland.
After lunch, the group returned to their projects to think about the textual situations with the newly developed reading view, and to create annotations. The AustESE project team received valuable feedback from the participants, all of which will go towards the refinement of the tools and workflow during the last months of 2013. Several large editorial projects are currently being prepared on the AustESE WorkBench and a number of projects will begin in the New Year. The field of scholarly editing in Australia will reap significant benefits from the work that has been done in this space.
AustESE: Australian Electronic Scholarly Editing 