Appraising, Processing, and Providing Access to Email in Contemporary Literary Archives
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The email of contemporary literary figures is ripe for research by scholars, and of broad interest to the general public, but can also present many challenges to cultural memory institutions that seek to appraise, process, and provide access to this rich archival material. This article explores how five institutions across the United States, United Kingdom, and New Zealand are using ePADD, free and open source software developed by Stanford Libraries that incorporates artificial intelligence and machine learning to help meet these challenges for email in contemporary English‐language literary collections. Authors and institutions represented include British poet Wendy Cope (The British Library), British novelist Ian McEwan (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin), British Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (Emory University), American poet Robert Creeley (Stanford University), and New Zealand poet and critic Ian Wedde (National Library of New Zealand). The use cases are followed by a discussion identifying lessons learned and areas for further research.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | August 11, 2019 |
| Date modified | March 14, 2023 |
| Publication date | August 13, 2019 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Schneider, Josh |
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| Contributor | Adams, Chance | |
| Contributor | DeBauche, Sally | |
| Contributor | Echols, Reid | |
| Contributor | McKean, Callum | |
| Contributor | Moran, Jessica | |
| Contributor | Waugh, Dorothy |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford University Libraries |
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| Subject | email preservation |
| Subject | archival processing |
| Subject | contemporary literary archives |
| Subject | natural language processing |
| Subject | machine learning |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Article |
Bibliographic information
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/np579zw4656 |
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- Schneider, J., Adams, C., DeBauche, S., Echols, R., McKean, C., Moran, J., and Waugh, D. Appraising, processing, and providing access to email in contemporary literary archives (preprint of article accepted for publication). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/np579zw4656
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