Indiana University has awarded a Digital Arts and Humanities Institute fellowship to SLIS faculty member John Walsh, Director of the school's Digital Libraries Specialization for the Master of Library Science and Master of Information Science programs.
Walsh will use the two-year fellowship period to further develop the Swinburne Project, a digital archive devoted to the life and works of Victorian poet and eminent cultural figure Algernon Charles Swinburne. Walsh outlines his plans for the fellowship in his proposal:
A Digital Arts and Humanities Institute fellowship, along with excellent existing support and resources from IU and SLIS, will provide the opportunity to expand the collection, solidify the technological infrastructure, implement digital research tools, pursue grant funding, and publish research that will benefit the wider communities of library and information science, digital humanities, and literary scholars and researchers.
When complete the project will provide students and scholars with access to all available original works by Swinburne and selected contextual materials, including contemporary critical reactions, biographical works, and texts and images for works about which Swinburne wrote.
The fellowship also affords recipients the opportunity to participate in an ongoing digital arts and humanities workshop with other faculty fellows.
See related SLIS News story:
NINES: Digitizing Nineteenth-Century Scholarship
Posted December 07, 2007