Publishing Digital History: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions Eileen Gardiner Co-Director, History E-Book Project American Council of Learned Societies Kate Wittenberg Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia Columbia University Robert Townsend Assistant Director for Research and Publications American Historical Association Ron Musto Co-Director, History E-Book Project American Council of Learned Societies The ACLS History E-Book Project and the Gutenberg-e Project will report on their progress and experiences in publishing history online, and will highlight critical issues that have arisen during the two projects' development. The Director of Gutenberg-e will discuss the editorial, technical, and organizational aspects of the project, with a particular focus on the changing roles of the players involved in the publication and the implications of these changes for future models of scholarly communication. The ACLS History E-Book Directors will discuss the second stage of online scholarly publishing and discuss the project's new monographs in XML as well as its retrospective collection selected by historians, focusing on the editorial, technical, and publishing challenges and the solutions developed.   Web Links: http://www.gutenberg-e.org/ http://www.historyebook.org/ Presentation: The Gutenberg-e Online History Project (PPT) Text (DOC)