This document summarizes Pip Willcox's presentation on digital scholarship, scale, and society. Some key points include: - Digital resources like EEBO and EEBO-TCP enable new forms of distant and close reading of early English texts. - Projects like the Bodleian First Folio digitization allow global access to important collections and engage new audiences through crowd-funding. - Initiatives such as ElEPHANT and social editions explore how linking and analyzing texts at scale can lead to new discoveries and ways of sharing knowledge.

1. The Author’s Drift:
scholarship, scale and society
Pip Willcox
Curator of Digital Special Collections
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
@pipwillcox

2. Engagement ki!s
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• Jill Paton Walsh, A Piece of Justice, London:
Coronet, 1995.

3. “the Authors dri"”
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http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

4. Multilateral co!aboration
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5. Cultural Connections
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Cultural
Connections
Engage Embrace Enhance
Do you want to:
QEngage with new audiences?
QEmbrace new ideas?
QEnhance your research?
Come and learn the skills you’ll need from experts at Cultural Connections.
Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange are increasingly part of
academic life. This dynamic, participative workshop, a strand of the Digital
Humanities @Oxford Summer School, will give you the knowledge and
confidence to benefit from sharing your research with audiences beyond
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/workshops.html#culturalconnections
http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

6. Humanities affordances
• Data-driven research questions
• Analyses
• Contexts
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7. Digital affordances
• Scholarship: EEBO-TCP, ElEPHãT, First Folio
• Scale: politics, practice, practicalities
• Society: social machines
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8. The many forms of digital text
• Metadata — Early Modern Letters Online
• Image — Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Optical Character Recognition — Google Books
• Transcribed — EEBO Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)
• Encoded — Shakespeare Quartos Archive
• Edited — Digital Renaissance Editions
• Digital print — Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
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9. The many forms of digital text
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• Publisher-led editions
• Library-led editions
• Academic-led editions
• Social editions

10. The many forms of digital text
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• Publisher-led editions
• Library-led editions
• Academic-led editions
• Social editions
• Licensed for reuse
• Freely available
• Subscription
• Private

11. The many forms of digital text
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• Discoverable
• Citable
• Publisher-led editions
• Library-led editions
• Academic-led editions
• Social editions
• Licensed for reuse
• Freely available
• Subscription
• Private
• Reusable
• Sustainable

12. Early English Books Online
• ProQuest’s subscription resource of metadata and
images (1473 — 1700)
• Pollard Redgrave Short-Title Catalogue
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(1475 — 1640)
• Wing Short-Title Catalogue (1641 — 1700)
• Thomason Tracts (1640 — 1661)
• Early English Books Tract Supplement
• 130,305 records
• 129,541 bitonal, digitized microfilm image sets

13. EEBO Text Creation Partnership
• Subscription resource, 150 consortium members
• Led by the Universities of Oxford and Michigan
• Discoverable, searchable, reusable, augmentable,
sustainable, digital, full texts
• 44,314 texts currently available
• 25,000 texts: freely available 1 January 2015
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14. Research Objects
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David De Roure
https://twitter.com/dder/status/455707549593919490/photo/1

15. EEBO-TCP Re-use
Distant reading — Duhaime and Zimmer, DocuScope, AdornMorph
Close reading — Verse Miscellanies Online, Digital Anthology of
Early English Drama, Forms Online Renaissance to Modern
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See final slide for URLs.

16. Beware of timeless ubiquity
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Keep your data and interface separate!

17. HathiTrust
• Digital repository of content from research libraries,
Google Books, Internet Archive, Microsoft...
• 10.5 million volumes; 3.6 billion pages
• Partnership of academic and research institutions
• Browse or read: metadata, page-images, OCR text
• Log in to download or create collections
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18. HathiTrust Research Center
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• Research services, a “pipeline”
• Metadata improvement
• Access to copyrighted material (70%)
• Computational infrastructure, a “hub”
• Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis
Andrew W. Mellon by Oswald Birley, Mellon Foundation
http://www.mellon.org/about_foundation/history/andrew-w-mellon

19. ElEPHãT
• ElEPHãT: Early English Print in the HathiTrust
• Linked Data: engaging with the unfamiliar
• Computers are an audience too
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20. ElEPHãT
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Kevin Page Pip Willcox

21. ElEPHãT
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• Seeing new stories at a new scale
• Improving metadata
• Facilitate and improve investigation
• Connecting between and across collections
• Communicating methods and results

22. Social machines
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David De Roure
http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/future-of-scholarly-communications

23. Social machines
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David De Roure
http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/future-of-scholarly-communications

24. Social machines
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David De Roure
http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/future-of-scholarly-communications

25. Social editions
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See final slide for URLs.

26. Share
“The coolest thing to do with your data will be
thought of by someone else.”
“The set of useful things one can do with a given informational
resource is always larger than can be done (or even thought of)
by one individual or group.”
Rufus Pollock and Jo Walsh
Open Knowledge Foundation
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http://assets.okfn.org/files/talks/xtech_2007/

27. The Bodleian First Folio
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28. The Bodleian First Folio
FOR
Shakeßpeare
HELP US OPEN THE BODLEIAN’S FIRST COLLECTED
EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS TO THE WORLD
Shakespeare’s First Folio is one of the greatest treasures in the
Bodleian collection, and we would like your help opening it up for
anyone anywhere in the world to enjoy exploring its pages. Now,
in the year of the Cultural Olympiad, we invite Shakespeare lovers
and Bodleian supporters to join our Sprint campaign to digitize and
publish our First Folio online for the benefit of
everyone, from schoolchildren to scholars.
By making a contribution of any size – from as little
as £20 per page – your support will enable us to
publish a speech, a scene, an act or even a whole
play of the First Folio online, on a specially
created website, which will inspire readers
today and in the future.
The Sprint for Shakespeare campaign aims
to raise £20,000 through a large number of
donations of all sizes. Any surplus beyond the
target will go towards future online projects to
open up the Bodleian collections.
All supporters of this campaign will be recognised
on a special page on this website, with the
opportunity to dedicate their gift to
someone who inspires them.
Like the patrons and
subscribers of books
TO FIND OUT
in the past, the names
MORE AND LEARN
will live on with this
HOW TO BE INVOLVED
digitized book through
VISIT OUR WEBSITE
this website.
http://shakespeare.
bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

29. Sprint for Shakespeare
Data from Google Analytics:
http://www.google.com/analytics
1 July 2012 — 10 August 2014
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http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

30. Sprint for Shakespeare
Data from Google Analytics:
http://www.google.com/analytics
1 July 2012 — 10 August 2014
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http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

31. Sprint for Shakespeare
Data from Google Analytics:
http://www.google.com/analytics
1 July 2012 — 10 August 2014
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http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

32. A successful campaign?
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• 100s of supporters
• From around the world
• Over £20,000 raised
• Mode average gift: £20
• Mean average gift: £98
• 10s of guest blog posts
Heikenwaelder Hugo: Wikimedia Commons
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/36/21/1366643208_5693_Earth.jpg?itok=DpP83sWk

33. The Bodleian First Folio
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34. The Bodleian First Folio
Data from Google Analytics:
http://www.google.com/analytics
1 April 2013 — 10 August 2014
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http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

35. The Bodleian First Folio
Data from Google Analytics:
http://www.google.com/analytics
1 April 2013 — 10 August 2014
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http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

36. The Bodleian First Folio
Data from Google Analytics:
http://www.google.com/analytics
1 April 2013 — 10 August 2014
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http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

37. Measures of success
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• Crowd-funding
• Support research and teaching
• Breadth of reach: access, geography
• Use and reuse
• A future
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http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

38. Reflections
• Engagement takes time
• Communication and sustainability plans ≠ box-ticking
• Target effort
• Incremental progress is still progress
• Curate your community
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39. The Republic of Letters
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Quod feliciter vortat academici
Oxoniens bibliothecam hanc
vobis reipublicaeque
literatorum T.B.P.
Thomas Bodley has built
this library for you and for
the Republic of the Learned.
May the gift turn out well.

40. The crowd is us. We are the citizens.
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Curate, co-operate, co-create
Enjoy
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc.165, f.217r
http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/w303ir

41. References
• Title quotation and edited image taken from The Bodleian First Folio: A digital facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Bodleian Arch. G c.7 — http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/, f.¶¶1r.
• Annotated Books Online — http://www.annotatedbooksonline.com/.
• Archive of Early Medieval English — http://aeme.emesoc.org/.
• The Bodin Project — http://sites.tufts.edu/bodinproject/2013/11/21/introduction/#more-1.
• Oswald Birley, Andrew W. Me!on, Mellon Foundation — http://www.mellon.org/about_foundation/history/andrew-w-mellon.
• Bodleian First Folio (Pip Willcox et al) — http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.
• Crowdmap the Crusades — http://dhcrowdscribe.com/crowdmap-the-crusades/.
• David De Roure, ‘The Future of Scholarly Communication’, UKSG 37th Annual Conference and Exhibition (2014) — http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/future-of-scholarly-communications.
• David De Roure, ‘The R Dimensions’. Via Twitter — https://twitter.com/dder/status/455707549593919490/photo/1.
• The Devonshire Manuscript: A Social Edition — http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Devonshire_Manuscript.
• DocuScope — http://www.cmu.edu/hss/english/research/docuscope.html.
• Douglas Duhaine and Erica Zimmer, Co-Citation Networks In The EEBO-TCP Corpus — http://douglasduhaime.com/blog/co-citation-networks-in-the-eebo-tcp-corpus.
• Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2013, Cultural Connections: public engagement for exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the humanities — http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/
workshops.html#culturalconnections.
• Digital Renaissance Editions — http://digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca/.
• Early English Books Online — http://eebo.chadwyck.com/.
• Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership — http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/tcp-eebo/.
• FORM: Forms Online: Renaissance to Modern — http://www.poeticformsonline.org/.
• Google Books — http://books.google.co.uk.
• HathiTrust — http://www.hathitrust.org/.
• HathiTrust Research Center — http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc/.
• Heikenwaelder Hugo, Wikimedia Commons: http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/36/21/1366643208_5693_Earth.jpg?itok=DpP83sWk.
• JISC Historic Books/Historic Text — http://www.jischistoricbooks.ac.uk/.
• MorphAdorner v.2.0 — http://morphadorner.northwestern.edu/.
• Novum Testamentum Graecum — http://egora.uni-muenster.de/intf/.
• Oxford Scholarly Editions Online — http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/.
• Jill Paton Walsh, A Piece of Justice, London: Coronet, 1995.
• Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and Ben Burton, eds, Poetics and Materiality in Early Modern Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 — http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198702818.do.
• Shakespeare Quartos Archive — http://quartos.org.
• Ray Siemens Alyssa Arbuckle, ‘Understanding the Social Edition Through Iterative Implementation: The Case of the Devonshire MS (BL Add MS 17492)’, Scholarly and Research Communication, volume 4, issue 3, 2013.
• Social media images — http://hqdesktop.net/wallpapers/l/1440x900/44/twitter_advertisement_website_portuguese_skype_old_fashion_1440x900_43938.jpg .
• S.M. Tarte, David De Roure, and Pip Willcox, ‘Working out the Plot: the Role of Stories in Social Machines.’ In: WWW '14: Companion Publication of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference. 2014. ACM. [ DOI:
10.1145/2567948.2578839 ].
• Judith Siefring and Eric T Meyer, ‘Sustaining the EEBO-TCP Corpus in Transition: Report on the TIDSR Benchmarking Study’, 2013 — http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2236202.
• TEI: Text Encoding Initiative — http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml.
• Transcribe Bentham — http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/.
• Michael Turner, et al, The London Book Trades Index — http://lbt.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page.
• Verse Miscellanies Online — http://versemiscellaniesonline.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.
• Jo Walsh and Rufus Pollock — http://assets.okfn.org/files/talks/xtech_2007/.
• Unattributed photographs are taken by the author, Pip Willcox.
With particular thanks to Jonathan Blaney, David De Roure, Kevin Page, Judith Siefring, and Ségolène Tarte.
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