A workshop co-sponsored by the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech and the NSF-funded Embryo Project at Arizona State University

Objectives

Building on previous results of the NSF supported digital HPS consortium and initiative, this workshop brings together scholars and specialists in the areas of digital editions of collected works, digital editions of manuscripts, and digital publishing of scholarly works. The Digital Editing Workshop will review and evaluate current methodologies and practices in the area of digital editions and related issues (such as archiving, oral history, author's rights, digital rights) and develop a roadmap for future development in informatics solutions supporting editing projects. We also will be discussing the sustainability of digital editions and related projects.

Topics

• Review of previous Digital HPS workshops
• Standards for archiving and storage of documents (paper, digital, images, objects, oral interviews)
• Standards for permissions of digital and print objects, including experiments (copyright issues for archives, estates, publishers, authors)
• Standards for metadata, harvesting technologies and whether some criteria for consistency can be reached across platforms
• Tools for mining data from documents and other objects
• Best practices for implementing network of projects

Co-Organizers

• Diana Kormos Buchwald, The Einstein Papers Project, Caltech
• Manfred Laubichler, The Embryo Project, Arizona State University
• Jane Maienschein, MBL-Arizona State University History Project

Workshop Participants

• Richard Creath, The Carnap Project, Arizona State University
• Charlotte Erwin, Caltech Institute Archives
• Judith Goodstein, Caltech
• Wallace Hooper, Indiana University
• Robert Iliffe, University of Sussex
• Paul Israel, The Edison Papers Project, Rutgers University
• Catherine Kounelis, The Paul Langevin Archives, Ècole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris
• Kerry Magruder, History of Science Collections, The University of Oklahoma
• William R. Newman, The Chymistry of Isaac Newton, Indiana University
• Alison Pearn, The Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge
• Diane Rielinger, MBLWHOI Library, Archives
• Ze'ev Rosenkranz, The Einstein Papers Project, Caltech
• Tilman Sauer, The Einstein Papers Project, Caltech
• Urs Schoepflin, The Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
• Felicity Snyder, The Embryo Project, Arizona State University
• Scott Walter, The Poincaré Correspondence Project, Université Nancy

Attendee

• Frederick Kronz, National Science Foundation, Washington DC

Administrative Coordinators:

• Emily de Araújo, EPP
• Felicity Snyder, ASU

The official workshop hotel is the Caltech Athenaeum. Other recommeded hotels are Hilton Pasadena and Westin Pasadena.