Highlighted Digital Collections Produced by the UVA Library
- Absalom, Absalom! Electronic, Interactive! Chronology
An interactive (Flash-based) chronology mapping of the complex structure
of this work by William Faulkner. Augmented by digital audio files
of talks by Faulkner at UVa in the 1957 and 1958, and page images from Faulkner's
notes on the chronology, which are housed in UVa Library Special Collections.
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/absalom/
- American Literature Resources CD-ROM
A CD-ROM containing the Census of Resources for American Studies and over
200 core American electronic texts (some newly digitized by DLPS specifically
for the project), was produced in 2004, and distributed overseas through
the United States Information Service. The CD was developed in conjunction
with IATH and Alan Howard of the UVa American Studies graduate program.
- The American Soldier Surveys
During W.W.II, the Army conducted hundreds of surveys of American troops,
covering topics relating to soldiers' attitudes toward the war, morale,
and education. The collective survey results affected many aspects
of federal policy in the postwar years, from promotion of the GI bill extending
educational benefits to veterans, to desegregation of the military.
The Geostat collection contains 137 surveys covering 78 different studies.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/amso/amsoindex.htm
- Apachean Languages and Oral Literatures
Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts: a Bilingual Apache-English presentation
with Linguistic notes.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/apache/
- Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
The thousand images in this collection have been selected from a wide range
of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. The images are
arranged in eighteen categories, and the collection is browseable by those
categories as well as keyword searchable.
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
- The Biddle Edition Archive of the Lewis and Clark Journals
A searchable electronic archive of selected Lewis and Clark letters, images,
and press coverage surrounding the publication of the Biddle edition of
the Lewis and Clark Journals. The project was sponsored by Doug Seefedlt
of the UVA History Department and the Virginia Center for Digital History,
and is built upon the electronic version of Biddle created by the Library
in 2003.
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/biddle/splash.html
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The Cambridge Scholarly Edition of the
Works of Ben Jonson
In collaboration with David Gants, the Electronic Text Center and Rare
Materials Digital Services are helping to produce a scholarly electronic
edition of the Ben Jonson first folio and quarto. The publication
and form of this edition is still under consideration.
- Cape Coast Archive
A collaborative effort by the University of Virginia Library, the United
States branch of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS),
and Ghanaian institutions to document the unique cultural and architectural
landscape of the Cape Coast, Ghana region for the purposes of preservation
and education.
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/CapeCoastArchive
- Census of Resources for American Studies
The Census of Resources for American Studies provides discovery, annotation,
and delivery of a directory of American Studies resources on the web. The
underlying infrastructure is a customized installation of the Scout Portal
Toolkit. The Census was developed in conjunction with IATH and Alan Howard
of the UVa American Studies graduate program.
http://infocomm.lib.virginia.edu/toolkit/SPT/SPT--Home.php
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Center on Religion and Democracy Online
The mission of the Center on Religion and Democracy is to develop
the critical insights and resources of careful academic study concerning
religion and public life, and to make them available to everyone concerned
with responding creatively and strategically to the challenges posed by
our time. All of the titles in the Center on Religion and Democracy
E-Text Library, marked up by the Electronic Text Center, are available
online and in Ebook formats.
http://religionanddemocracy.lib.virginia.edu/
- Climatology Virginia
Climatology Virginia was developed by the Science and Engineering Libraries'
Digital Lab and the Geostat Center as a resource to enhance the pure research
capabilities of those engaged in the field, while lending context wherever
possible to encourage a broad reach of understanding. Climatology Virginia
brings together many of the facets that make up climate research in the
Commonwealth and presents them via the Web. In its first phase, Climatology
Virginia includes four datasets from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC),
augmented by extensive metadata, data from 1920-29 in text format, selected
digitized NCDC reports, and an annotated directory of climatological resources
on the Web.
http://atlas.lib.virginia.edu/vaclim/
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Clotel: A Scholarly Electronic
Edition
A Scholarly Electronic Edition of William Wells Brown's classic novel
(the “first” African-American novel), produced in collaboration
with Christopher Mulvey of University College Winchester (formerly King
Alfred's College).
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Digital Map Library
Virginia (ESRI data for Virginia and its neighboring states), National
(coverage for the United States using USGS Digital Line Graph [DLG] data
and ESRI data), and World (an assortment of digital maps using public
domain data sets and ESRI data) digital map library, plus Virginia 2000
Census maps.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/maps/genmaps/
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Early American Fiction, 1789-1875
The University has completed processing of Phase 1 (1789-1849) and Phase
2 (1850-1875) of this Mellon-funded collection of 886 volumes of American
fiction in the University of Virginia Special Collections, including works
by Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Clemens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville,
Harriet Beecher Stowe and some 90 other 19th century novelists. Each text
exists as a full set of color page-images and a searchable XML text. Biographies
and supporting manuscript materials were also digitized. Some materials
are publicly available, while the remainder is available only through
license with Chadwyck-Healy.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/
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Historical Census Browser
The Geospatial and Statistical Data Center has developed mapping functionality
to compliment the online data delivery of the U.S. Historical Census Browser.
After selecting data for a given year and geographic level, users can
create online maps of census characteristics that can be overlaid with
related geographic layers showing jurisdictional boundaries, roads, and
waterways. The maps can be viewed or saved as PDF documents.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
- IRIS
The Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library uses the IRIS visual resources
collection management tool (developed at Brown University using FileMaker) to support cataloging and management
of digital and physical visual materials. The database brings together a combined virtual collection of images from the Fine Arts Library and the
McIntire Department of Art Visual Resources Collection.
Images and their accompanying metadata are exported on a regular bases for inclusion in the UVa Library's
Digital Library Repository.
- Japanese Text Initiative (JTI)
The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University
of Pittsburgh East Asian Library sponsor the Japanese Text Initiative, a
collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available
on the Web. Dozens of texts and a Japanese Haiku Topical Dictionary have
been added. The Japanese characters are fully searchable for all JTI texts.
A grant from the Toshiba International Foundation supported the expansion
of the corpus by over 200 texts in 2004.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/
- Jeffersonian Cyclopedia
9,000 entries on Thomas Jefferson quotations, searchable and browseable
by theme, date, topic, recipient, and place of publication, relating to
Government, Politics, Law, Education, Political Economy, Finance, Science,
Art, Literature, Religious Freedom, and Morals. From the 1900 edition,
edited by John P. Foley.
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/foley/
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Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery
Two full-text editions of the Journals of Lewis and Clark (1814 and 1904)
with page images; a page image edition of A journal of the voyages
and travels of a corps of discovery, under the command of Capt. Lewis
and Capt. Clarke; by Patrick Gass; a page image edition of Catalogue
of Catlin's Indian gallery or portraits, landscapes, manners and customs,
costumes, &tc.; and George Catlin Indian Paintings Collection
from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
http://infocomm.lib.virginia.edu/amst/lewisclark.html
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Mark Twain in His Times
This interpretive archive, drawn largely from the resources of the Barrett
Collection at the University of Virginia, focuses on how "Mark Twain"
and his works were created and defined, marketed and performed, reviewed
and appreciated. Contained here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores
of contemporary reviews and articles, hundreds of images, and many different
kinds of interactive exhibits. Developed by the UVa Library's Electronic
Text Center in conjunction with Professor Stephen Railton of the UVa English
Department.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/
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Middle High German Interlinked
A $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) supported
the University of Virginia Library and the University of Trier, Germany,
in the digitization of some 100 medieval German texts and several related
dictionaries.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/german/mhg/browse/
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Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever
Collection
The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection is an extensive
compilation of correspondence, notes, reports, printed materials, photographs,
negatives, and artifacts spanning a period of almost one hundred years.
About 5,500 items comprise the first phase of this archive, with 3,000
more expected in 2004-2005.
http://yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu/reed/
- Poe Archives
Commemorative for the Sesquicentennial (1999) of the death of Edgar Allan
Poe. The site details his life at the University of Virginia and his writing
career, and features fully searchable full-text resources.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/poe/
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The Renaissance in Print: Sixteenth-Century
French Books in the Douglas Gordon Collection
Rare Materials Digital Services and the University of Virginia French
Department have launched a collaborative project that will make rare books
from the French Renaissance era accessible to the public on the Web.
The online collection will include digital facsimiles of sixteenth-century
printed books in the Douglas H.
Gordon Collection and an on-line network of resources designed to
situate the books within the rich context of the French Renaissance.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/collections/gordon.html
- Suriname Archive
Collection of maps and photographs documenting the cultural diversity of
this South American nation.
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Suriname
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TEI/NEH Task Force on SGML to XML Migration
Text Encoding Initiative-sponsored international working group to survey
current practice in application of the TEI encoding scheme, in particular
with respect to the usage of SGML in electronic repositories. The
group has identified technical, organizational, or other challenges and
opportunities presented by the conversion of legacy data to P4 XML format;
and proposed migration strategies and practices.
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/MI/
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Television News of the Civil Rights
Era: 1950-1970
This digital archive is based on an extensive collection of 16 mm
news footage from the Roanoke TV station, WSLS. The Virginia Center
for Digital History is experimenting with using the GDMS for delivery
of this material. This is a work-in-progress.
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/
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Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
A continually expanding collection of electronic texts, digital scholarship,
and UVa collections relating to Thomas Jefferson. The collection also
contains hundreds of MSS images.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/Jefferson/
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Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library
A consortial, integrated environment for digital publication of many diverse
projects, digital and non-digital, relating to Tibet and the Himalayas.
The resources include a video and audio database, an interactive map of
Tibet, virtual models, electronic texts, a Tibetan Dictionary, and a translation
tool.
http://www.thdl.org/
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THDL Tibet Gazetteer
This gazetteer is a browsable and searchable XML-based database of places
within the Tibet Autonomous Region. Each record provides various information
including name translations, a link to view the location on an interactive
web map, and in some cases even census data. Future plans for the Tibet
Gazetteer include providing different views of the data, such as contemporary
cultural regions, contemporary administrative units, and historical views;
and expanding the coverage area.
http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/collections/cultgeo/gazetteer-frameset.html
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University of Virginia Online Visual
History
A growing collection of images related to UVa as well as pulled from UVa
collections, this resource contains over 7,000 images and is augmented
weekly. This is a collaborative project with the University's News
Services, Development Communications, and the Provost's Office.
http://mcgregor.lib.virginia.edu/prints/
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The Virginia Gazetteer
The Virginia Gazetteer contains the official name, type, and location
of over 51,000 geographic features in Virginia. The Virginia Gazetteer
is linked to an inventory of collections archived at the Geostat Center,
allowing the gazetteer to function as a geographic catalog for the Geostat
collections.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/gis/vagaz/
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The Virginia Heritage Project
The Virginia Heritage Project concluded successfully in December
2002. Over the course of the grant, Special Collections encoded
2,203 collection guides in the EAD format, representing 27,923 pages of
text. The project was awarded the SOLINET Outstanding Library Program
Award for Preservation and Electronic Information on March 25, 2003.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/vhp/
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The Virginia State Elected Officials
Database Project
The Virginia State Elected Officials Database consists of approximately
37,000 annual records, with each record containing a discrete array of
biographical and institutional information. It provides the first
web-based compilation of the more than 8,500 individuals who have served
as Governor, State Delegate or State Senator from 1776 to 2003, and enables
quantitative analysis of legislative tenure in Virginia. Recent
improvements to the backend database architecture have produced a more
sustainable architecture that allows for inclusion of related data, including
electoral data and details on candidacy in recent decades.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/valeg/
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Westward Exploration
4,500 page image scans of 19th century American materials related to westward
exploration after Lewis and Clark available online. Many of the
volumes are extensively illustrated, and all are housed in UVa Library's
Special Collections.
http://infocomm.lib.virginia.edu/amst/lewisclark.html
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The Writings of George Washington from
the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799
Published an extensive archive of writings on or by George Washington.
The archive is the electronic edition of John C. Fitzpatrick’s
comprehensive study, “The Writings of George Washington from the
Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799,” a collection of more than
17,400 letters and documents.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/Washington/fitzpatrick/
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