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)
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