Abstract

Review: Collective Biographies of Women

Highlights

  • Collective Biographies of Women (CBW) is an open-source feminist digital humanities project that spans the disciplines of literature and history, focusing on a genre of English-language books printed since the eighteenth century

  • CBW began at the University of Virginia (UVA) Library E-text Center and Scholars’ Lab

  • Teams of editors use our stand-aside XML schema, Biographical Elements and Structure Schema (BESS), which refers to paragraphs in TEI texts of samples of these books

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Summary

Alison Booth

Collective Biographies of Women (CBW) is an open-source feminist digital humanities project that spans the disciplines of literature and history, focusing on a genre of English-language books printed since the eighteenth century. These 1272 books, by men and women, are not reference works but collections of life stories for general readers, portraying over 8000 women of many kinds, more than half of them almost unknown today. With the aid of an ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship (2014) and NEH ODH Startup Level II (2015-2017) grant, as well as research funds from the UVA English Department and the Library, we pursued Linked Open Data: sets of CBW person records have been interlinked with Social Networks and Archival Context (see African American cohort; subjects in books that include Lola Montez). Booth has presented on CBW at the annual Digital Humanities, Association for Computers and the Humanities, Modern Language Association, and Narrative conferences and published articles on CBW, including “Prosopography and Crowded Attention in Old and New Media,” in On Life-Writing, edited by Zachary Leader (Oxford, 2015)

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