| HD-51866-14 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | West Virginia University Research Corporation | A Search Engine for Electronic Literature | 5/1/2014 - 10/31/2015 | $59,973.00 | Charles | | Baldwin | | | | West Virginia University Research Corporation | Morgantown | WV | 26505-2742 | USA | 2014 | Literature, General | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 59973 | 0 | 54517.61 | 0 | Development of a search interface and implementation of shared metadata standards that would join the databases for nine international research centers in electronic literature, allowing researchers to cross-search the complete archives.
Our Level II grant proposal emerges from the Consortium for Electronic Literature (CELL), a partnership founded by the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) and joining nine research centers, all developing online database projects devoted to research in electronic literature (e-lit). Building on existing achievements, we request $59,973 to implement the following: a web-based search engine for e-lit to display results from across the consortium databases; a unified name authority system to improve the data harvested by the search engine and to create more faceted and complex search results; and a training/how-to framework to extend our initiative to include future projects and partners and to establish standards and best practices in using the e-lit search engine. |