Illuminating Collections and Scholarship
Chair: Bessette, Lee

Accessibility and Inclusion in Digital Scholarly Editing

Cappellotto, Anna (1); Cioffi, Raffaele (2)

1: University of Verona, Italy; 2: University of Naples, Italy

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Our paper is based on acollaborative project which has the ambition to contribute to develop a new mentality in Digital Scholarly Editing, where inclusive becomes as important as scholarly. The results of this analysis will be combined to elaborate a first set of basic requirements for accessible and inclusive DSEs.


Diskmags Catalog and Text Collection

Roeder, Torsten (1); Witt, Andreas (2)

1: Universität Würzburg, Germany; 2: Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim

This project catalogs 2,500 international disk magazines, exceeding initial estimates. Emphasizing community contributions and diverse encoding challenges, it spans various languages and systems. The evolving catalog and text collection, crucial for digital heritage preservation, seek broader community and institutional engagement for future expansion and inclusivity.


Analyzing Online TOUs (Terms-of-Use) with R Shiny

Vohra, Kunal; Ireland, Katherine; Samples, Tim

University of Georgia, United States of America

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This presentation discusses an analysis of the linguistic complexity of online terms-of-use (TOUs) contracts. The dataset is compiled of over 250 TOUs.To analyze how complexity has changed longitudinally, R shiny is implemented to flexibly compare different platforms, varying sub-periods, and choose graph styles.


Perceptions and Misperceptions: Technology and the Archivist-Researcher Relationship

Scheinfeldt, Tom

University of Connecticut, United States of America

This paper will provide an account of the the perceptions and misperceptions held on both sides of the archivist-researcher relationship, the responsibilities each side owes to the other, and how software may be able to reconfigure and reinvent this relationship to mutual benefit.


A Decade of Reinventing Transcription on the Zooniverse Platform

Van Hyning, Victoria (1); Blickhan, Samantha (2)

1: University of Maryland, iSchool, United States of America; 2: Zooniverse, Adler Planetarium

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In this short paper, we present ongoing research into the history of text transcription on the Zooniverse.org platform (2010-present). We argue for the need for platform-level scholarship, and provide new information about common challenges that Zooniverse team members and platform users have encountered when designing or running transcription projects.