Hermsen, Walker present on rare manuscript
Lisa Hermsen, professor of English, and Rebekah Walker, digital humanities and social sciences librarian, presented two conference papers in September in England: the Digital Humanities Congress at Sheffield and the Text and Encoding Initiative Consortium at Newcastle. Both presentations focused on Hermsen and Walker’s preparation of a digital edition of a rare 19th century manuscript from the printers and bookbinders firm William Townsend and Sons. The Cary Collection at RIT Library holds a five-volume collection from this firm in its Middleton Collection on the history of bookbinding. Hermsen and Walker are working with a team of RIT students on a text encoded digital edition of the volume that will be machine readable and openly accessible to scholars.
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