The Poetess Meets IT: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Abstract

Among the challenges of Digital Humanities efforts is the need to address access issues including access to tools for content creation as well as the need to create user-friendly tools for humanities scholars.  This paper offers a case study of a collaboration between members of the English faculty and IT support group at Miami University for development of the Poetess Archive with a discussion of how access issues were addressed in this project.  The suitability of this type of project for a project-based computer science course is also discussed.