Why publish the Dickinson lexicon online?
Even before the internet became available, I knew that the EDL would have an electronic edition, because of the CD edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the WordCruncher scripture concordance program. Harvard University Press granted permission for us to scan Dickinson’s poems and letters into a WordCruncher concordance database, 1994. The advent of the internet, email, html, and websites enhanced the EDL project and hastened the electronic edition, 1995-2000. Undergraduate student Jennifer Shakespear created the prototype EDL website for her “Computing in the Humanities” course on web publishing in 2000. Electronic publication saves the EDL files from data management problems that had plagued the project due to WordPerfect upgrades and Word downgrades, 1992-2005. Mel Thorne of the Humanities Publication Center recommended electronic publication as the cutting edge forum for a project of this type, size, and scope, 2004.
Even before the internet became available, I knew that the EDL would have an electronic edition, because of the CD edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the WordCruncher scripture concordance program developed by Monte Shelley and James Rosenvall at Brigham Young University. Harvard University Press granted permission for us to scan Dickinson’s poems and letters into a WordCruncher concordance database, 1994. The advent of the internet, email, html, and websites enhanced the EDL project and hastened the electronic edition, 1995-2000. Undergraduate student Jennifer Shakespear created the prototype EDL website for her “Computing in the Humanities” course on web publishing in 2000. Electronic publication saves the EDL files from data management problems that had plagued the project due to WordPerfect upgrades and Word downgrades, 1992-2005. Mel Thorne of the Humanities Publication Center recommended electronic publication as the cutting edge forum for a project of this type, size,
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