COVE: Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education

FAIN: PW-285018-22

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Lincoln, NE 68503-2427)
Adrian Wisnicki (Project Director: July 2021 to present)
Dino Franco Felluga (Co Project Director: May 2022 to present)

Development of the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE) with three areas of focus: implementation of more robust data standards for long-term use; expansion of content with over 80 titles concentrating especially on non-canonical and global literatures; and enhancements of the COVE website to facilitate pedagogically-focused digital humanities work with literary texts.

The PIs on this grant request NEH funds to preserve and expand a large body of critically-encoded nineteenth-century literary texts and recent, related critical literature. This corpus comprises seven million words of primary texts already encoded, one and a quarter million words of existing critical literature, and an additional one million words of primary texts to be encoded through the proposed project. All of this material has been or will be integrated into COVE (Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education), an open access publishing platform, while that integrated to date (the primary texts already encoded and the critical literature) is already being used by scholars and students from around the world for both teaching and research. Support from the NEH would ensure both technological and programmatic sustainability for the project and its content in the long term, especially the adoption of more robust data standards for the entire collection.