About the UVA-DPC Project

This collaboration brings together substantial experience and expertise to address the critical issues, challenges, and opportunities that currently face the field of documentary editing:
1) the lack of accessible and robust digital editorial and publication platforms
2) the issues of standardization versus customization, both within the editorial process and integrated into technical systems
3) the need for diverse publication outputs
4) the immense potential for discoverability, increased accessibility, and expansion of audience

Project Outcomes

 The University of Virginia Digital Publishing Cooperative will build the necessary infrastructure to facilitate and support the conceptualization, development, publication, discovery, preservation, and sustainability of digital editions and projects, and will make digital editing and publishing accessible to a larger community of projects. Additionally, digital publications (both standalone and federated) from UVA-DPC projects will provide various modes of access and discovery, enhance our understanding of history, and advance scholarly research. By the end of implementation, the UVA-DPC will have developed:

human, technical, and institutional infrastructure to support all aspects of digital publication

a  comprehensive, flexible, extensible platform that supports all stages of editorial work and encourages workflows that follow best practices for digital dissemination of multiple content types and digital outputs

processes for evaluating and onboarding additional projects

three digital publication pipelines: UVA-DPC, Rotunda, and hybrid

a process for peer review

 business model and sustainability plan to support the DPC after the grant period

UVA-DPC Project Team

Tech Team

  • Erica Cavanaugh, Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia
  • Anneliese Dehner, Independent Developer
  • Loren Moulds, Arthur J. Morris Law Library, University of Virginia
  • Christopher Pollin, Centre for Information Modelling, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz
  • Patricia Searl, University of Virginia Press, University of Virginia
  • David Sewell, University of Virginia Press, University of Virginia
  • Georg Vogeler, Centre for Information Modelling, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz
  • Agile Humanities Agency

Project Team & Advisors

  • Kathryn Blizzard, Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia
  • Dave Ghamandi, University of Virginia Libraries, University of Virginia 
  • Ronald Hutchins, Information Technology, University of Virginia
  • Christopher Minty, Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia
  • Jennifer Stertzer, Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia
  • Kathryn Tomasek, Wheaton College
  • John Unsworth, University of Virginia Libraries, University of Virginia

Editors & Editorial Projects

  • Anna Agbe-Davies, Stagville Accounts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Laura Baker, The Papers of Julian Bond, University of Virginia
  • Jessica Bandel, MosaicNC, North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
  • Joseph Beatty, MosaicNC, North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
  • Ben Brumfield, Graves Account Book, Brumfield Labs, LLC
  • Tara Bynum, Cesar Lyndon’s Sundry Account Book, Hampshire College
  • Jane Calvert, John Dickinson Writings Project, University of Kentucky
  • Mark Cheathem, Papers of Martin Van Buren, Cumberland University
  • Michael Cohen, The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, American University
  • Nathan Daniels, The Tax Rolls of Medieval Paris (TROMP) Project, Johns Hopkins University 
  • Walter Fluker, The Howard Thurman Papers Project, Boston University 
  • Silvia Glick, The Howard Thurman Papers Project
  • Cathy Moran Hajo, The Jane Addams Papers Project, Ramapo College of New Jersey 
  • Katie Hatton, MosaicNC, North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
  • Patrick Lewis, Civil War Governors of Kentucky Financial Records, Filson Historical Society
  • Laura Morreale, Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe, Harvard University 
  • Constance B. Schulz, The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen, University of South Carolina
  • Victoria Sciancalepore, The Jane Addams Papers Project, Ramapo College of New Jersey
  • Holly Cowan Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition/Founding Women, University of Virginia
  • Denton Watson, The Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr., SUNY Old Westbury