The Livingstone Online Enrichment and Access Project (LEAP)

FAIN: PW-51436-13

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Lincoln, NE 68503-2427)
Adrian Wisnicki (Project Director: July 2012 to December 2017)

The digitization and transcription of 3,500 manuscript pages written by David Livingstone, pertaining to his exploration of Africa, for inclusion in the Livingstone Online Web site, along with the development of tools and services to enhance use by scholars and educators.

The Livingstone Online Enrichment and Access Project (LEAP) will support updating, integrating, and providing access to Livingstone Online (http://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/) and its digital image and transcription collections in order to secure the site's long-term sustainability as a unified, open-access resource for scholars and the general public. . Our site -- a well established, transatlantic, digital archive initiative -- seeks to provide worldwide access to the writings of Dr. David Livingstone (1813-73), the Scottish abolitionist, missionary, and explorer of Africa.

Associated Products

Livingstone Online (Web Resource)
Title: Livingstone Online
Author: Adrian Wisnicki
Abstract: The Livingstone Online Enrichment and Access Project (LEAP) is a three-year initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project, which launched on September 1, 2013, brings together an international, interdisciplinary team of experts with the UCLA Digital Library and two of the largest Livingstone manuscript collections in the UK: the National Library of Scotland and the David Livingstone Centre. The overarching goal of the project, under the leadership of Adrian S. Wisnicki, is to revise, redesign, and expand the original Livingstone Online website and digital collection (2005-2015; Christopher Lawrence, director).
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://http://www.livingstoneonline.org/

Expeditions: The Blog for Livingstone Online (Blog Post)
Title: Expeditions: The Blog for Livingstone Online
Author: Livingstone Online Project Team
Abstract: This is the main blog for Livingstone Online. It is regularly updated by the project team.
Date: 2014/03/17
Primary URL: https://livingstoneonline.wordpress.com/
Primary URL Description: The main link for the blog.
Blog Title: The Livingstone Online Team Meets in Lincoln, Nebraska
Website: Expeditions: The Blog for Livingstone Online

Digital Victorian Studies Today (Article)
Title: Digital Victorian Studies Today
Author: Adrian S. Wisnicki
Abstract: This essay explores the current state of digital Victorian studies by providing an overview of the field and by looking in-depth at a handful of model project. Livingstone Online gets prominent coverage in this article.
Year: 2016
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Victorian Literature and Culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Taking Livingstone Online across Disciplines, Institutions, and Continents (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Taking Livingstone Online across Disciplines, Institutions, and Continents
Author: Ashanka Kumari
Author: Adrian S. Wisnicki
Abstract: This project showcase outlined by the broad, collaborative, interdisciplinary contexts in which we develop Livingstone Online.
Date: 2016/06/22
Conference Name: Keystone Digital Humanities Conference 2016

Is One Livingstone Online Image Worth a Thousand Words? (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Is One Livingstone Online Image Worth a Thousand Words?
Author: Adrian S. Wisnicki
Abstract: The paper used one image from the Livingstone Online project to illuminate the many methodological stands of our work.
Date: 2016/04/14
Conference Name: Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference

Ask the NEH Expert (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Ask the NEH Expert
Writer: Adrian S. Wisnicki
Abstract: This Google hangout was delivered as part of National History Day. In the Hangout, Adrian S. Wisnicki met with NHD organizers to discuss the Livingstone Online project and to present information that could be of particular relevant to students whose NHD projects focused on David Livingstone.
Date: 2015/12/10
Access Model: Open access
Format: Web

The New Livingstone Online (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The New Livingstone Online
Author: Adrian S. Wisnicki
Author: Megan Ward
Author: Angela Aliff
Author: Kate Simpson
Abstract: This presentation introduced the new Livingstone Online to the public.
Date: 2015/06/24
Conference Name: Public lecture at the National Library of Scotland

Introducing the Livingstone Project (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Introducing the Livingstone Project
Author: Adrian S. Wisnicki
Abstract: The presentation introduced the objectives, particularly in terms of imaging, of Livingstone Online.
Date: 2014/11/24
Conference Name: Lecture at the University of Glasgow

David Livingstone's disturbing accounts of 19th century slave trade go online (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: David Livingstone's disturbing accounts of 19th century slave trade go online
Writer: Martin Williams
Abstract: This newspaper article discusses the publication of the new Livingstone Online.
Date: 2015/06/24
Primary URL: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/david-livingstones-disturbing-accounts-of-19th-century-slave-trade-go-online.130039496
Primary URL Description: The newspaper article.
Access Model: Open access
Format: Web

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