A  great deal of my experience in digital humanities was gained at the Rossetti Archive, where I worked with Jerry McGann text encoding, design, and project management from ca. 1997-2004. For most of that time, I served as the Archive’s Design Editor.

My own editorial work focuses on Algernon Charles Swinburne, Rossetti’s contemporary — specifically his controversial 1866 volume, Poems and Ballads. This is a book with a fascinatingly vexed production and reception history. I plan to chronicle my work toward a critical edition in the pages of this blog.

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photo, National Portrait Gallery

An early version of my dissertation took the form of a scholarly edition of Poems and Ballads, First Series. The print embodiment of this edition, which includes a textual history, descriptive bibliographies, collation notes, and related material, was nearly complete, when I abandoned it for a more speculative dissertation full of case studies in humanities computing.

In the aftermath of that work, we built Juxta at ARP, and my next Swinburnian goal is to put all of the editions Poems and Ballads that I collated as a grad student into Juxta in XML format and deliver the whole on the Web.  I am also collaborating with Matthew Mitchell, our lead programmer in Digital Research & Scholarship at UVA Library, on a Solr and Ruby-on-Rails interface for textual studies.  Matt is using my Swinburne XML, proofed with the assistance of Rob Stilling, as fodder for this research-and-development project.

Some early thinking toward Poems and Ballads:
• Interfacing the Edition: text of a talk on image-based editing and digital facsimiles.
• Interfacing the Rossetti Archive: text of a presentation on my work as Design Editor at the Rossetti Archive
• Prospectus and Notes: Paper Version and Electronic Musings (available on request)
• Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads, First Series; and
• Experiments in Image-Based Editing (both presently offline)