• Old Texts and New Media: Jewish Books on the Move and a Case for Collaboration

    Author(s):
    Michelle Chesner (see profile) , Kate Joranson, Marjorie Lehman, Adam Shear, Joshua Teplitsky
    Editor(s):
    Robin Kear
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Jewish Studies
    Subject(s):
    Books, History, Digital humanities, Jews--Study and teaching, Libraries
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Provenance, Book history, Collaboration, Jewish studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6X29M
    Abstract:
    Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place is a database and research project designed to trace books-in-motion. It brings together acts of careful individual research with large-scale quantification and mapping: using inscriptions, owner’s marks, and catalogues of copies of early Jewish printed books. The project is a cooperative endeavor of four project directors, both faculty and librarian, from different institutions each representing different fields of Jewish Studies. With the technical expertise of partners at a university-based center for teaching and learning, a mix of paid and volunteer student, post-doctoral, and library based researchers, the project directors have created a database that is transforming the way research on the history of the book is done. The chapter will address collaboration in three aspects: between project directors; between the project and its contributors (individual and institutional, public and private); and between contributors and users. The chapter argues for a new model of iterative projects that relies in part on networked collaboration rather than only on operations in concert by a small, bounded group.
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102023-4.00005-7
    Publisher:
    Chandos Elsevier
    Pub. Date:
    2018
    Book Title:
    Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Network, and Community.
    Author/Editor:
    Robin Kear and Kate Joranson
    Chapter:
    Five
    Page Range:
    61 - 73
    ISBN:
    9780081020234
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-ShareAlike
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