The Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Dissemination (SCWAReD) project is producing a suite of curated, targeted worksets of materials from the HathiTrust Digital Library, facilitated by its Research Center (HTRC). HTRC worksets are user-created collections of HathiTrust volumes that can be treated as data and analyzed using a variety of tools and services. In addition to their intrinsic value as focused digital collections, SCWAReD’s enhanced, scholar-curated worksets also serve as illustrative, reusable research models, and include not only the worksets themselves, but also scholarly introductions, derived datasets and related documentation, and research reports.

The special mission of SCWAReD is to highlight and center the work of historically under-resourced and marginalized textual communities. SCWAReD’s flagship collaboration is with the Black Books Interactive Project, part of the History of Black Writing, founded by SCWAReD Co-PI Maryemma Graham (University of Kansas). Four more projects were selected to create curated worksets:

• "Mining the Native American Authored Works in HathiTrust for Insights" directed by Kun Lu, Raina Heaton, and Raymond Orr (University of Oklahoma)
• "The Black Fantastic: Curated Vocabularies, Artifact Analysis and Identification" directed by Clarissa West-White (Bethune Cookman University) and Seretha Williams (Augusta University)
• "Creating Period-Specific Worksets for Latin American Fiction," directed by José Eduardo González (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
• "The National Negro Health Digital Project: Recovering and Restoring a Black Public Health Corpus," directed by Kim Gallon (Purdue University)

This talk will provide an overview of HTRC services and tools, and will introduce, as a case study, the SCWAReD project and preliminary analysis results from its collaborative projects and gap-filling efforts.

About the speaker

Isabella Magni (PhD) is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Sheffield. She previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the HathiTrust Research Center, Rutgers University, and the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Isabella works at the intersection of digital humanities, textual studies, history of the book, philology, and palaeography. She is editor and co-I for a number of digital projects including Petrarchive (a digital edition of Petrarch’s songbook), SCWAReD (Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Dissemination) and Italian Paleography.