EVENT: SHARP 2013 Digital Projects and Tools Showcase 2

In July, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) held its twenty-first annual conference in Philadelphia. In addition to the conference program, SHARP also held a digital showcase to share updates from various projects from the United States Canada and Europe.

Below are examples of some of the projects:

The Book History BiblioGraph
Mark Algee-Hewitt (Stanford University, USA), Tom Mole (McGill University, Canada)

Expanding the Republic of Letters: India and the Circulation of Ideas in the Late Eighteenth Century
Mitch Fraas (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Mapping Sheila Watson’s Paris: Using a Geo-Location Smartphone App to Retrace Walks the Canadian Modernist Records in Her Journal
Paul Hjartarson (University of Alberta, Canada), Harvey Quamen (University of Alberta, Canada)

Book History and the Early Modern OCR Project
Jacob Heil (Texas A&M University, USA)

END: The Early Novels Database 
[not yet public]
Rachel Sagner Buurma (Swarthmore College, USA)

For a write-up of the showcase, see Eleanor Shevlin’s post on the Early Modern Online Bibliography site.