Migration of the Mark Twain Project Online, a digital scholarly edition of the author's writings, to a new minimal computing infrastructure that will ensure its long-term availability and sustainability.

The proposed grant will enable the Mark Twain Project, during 2022-26, to replace its failing digital publishing and data-management system with a new lightweight and sustainable system that will allow the Project's digital enterprise, Mark Twain Project Online, to thrive for at least the next ten years. Activities under this grant will include the creation of a new Mark Twain Project Online website using the Hugo framework; implementation of the XML eXist database for Project metadata; development of workflows for the production of digital surrogates and metadata (MARC, etc.); renovation of the Project's data stack (XML, XSLT, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) for a minimal computing environment; and the launch of MTPO Labs for experimental editorial and data analysis interfaces and tools, expanding online offerings to our users.

To provide supplementary support for the editing of the papers and works of Mark Twain.

To support the preparation of a comprehensive scholarly edition of the works and papers of Mark Twain.

To support the preparation for publication of the scholarly editions of Mark Twain's novels, stories, and correspondence.

To support the preparation of an edition of Mark Twain's works and papers.

Preparation for print and digital publication of three volumes of works by Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, San Francisco Writings, and Pudd’nhead Wilson; Volume 7 of his letters; and completion of necessary upgrades to the search engine and image database of the Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO). (24 months)

The proposed grant will enable the Mark Twain Project, during 2018–2020, to publish (in print and on Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO) three scholarly editions: The Innocents Abroad; San Francisco Correspondence, 1865–1866; and Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 7: 1876–1877. We will also begin and complete editorial work on a scholarly edition of Pudd’nhead Wilson, for submission to press by the period’s end. Other additions to MTPO will include publication of five years of Mark Twain’s letter texts (written 1883–87), and digitization of five of the Project’s earlier-published editions of literary works. In the same period the Project will also upgrade MTPO’s user interface, and commence improvements to make its data set more usable and available.

Preparation for print publication of five volumes of works by Mark Twain (1835-1910) and updates to the Mark Twain Project Online. (36 months)

The Mark Twain Project asks support for a full-scale critical edition of Following the Equator, and for work needed to publish, both in print and on its digital edition, Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO), three major volumes in the Works of Mark Twain series: Pudd’nhead Wilson, The Innocents Abroad, and San Francisco Correspondence 1865-1866. The first two of these are also to be adapted for publication in the Mark Twain Library series, which brings the critically-established texts and explanatory notes to general readers and classrooms. Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 7 is to be prepared for publication on MTPO, along with five other editions already published in print by the UC Press; and the texts of 1,405 Mark Twain letters are to be transcribed, edited, supplied with critical apparatus, and published online. Support is sought for the ongoing management and curation of the project's textual and image datasets, improvements to the digital infrastructure, and development of MTPO's features and interface.

Completion of an electronic online edition of Mark Twain's Letters and editorial work and XML encoding of Twain's Autobiographical writings. (24 months)

The Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library seeks funding for editorial work and XML encoding of a scholarly edition of Mark Twain's Autobiography, the largest and arguably the most important of the manuscripts Mark Twain left deliberately unpublished, forbidding publication until 100 years after his death. This edition will be published in 2010 through Mark Twain's Writings Online; the text and notes will also be issued in 3 printed volumes by the University of California Press. The editors will identify persons, places, and events in editorial notes. They will establish the text from several thousand pages of manuscript and typescript and will identify and report on which changes are authorial and which are by A. B. Paine.

Completion of editorial work on electronic and print publications of Volume 2 and beginning work on Volume 3 of Mark Twain's Autobiography; continued adding of Twain's major works and letters to the Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO); updating online platform to current standards. (24 months)

The Mark Twain Project proposes to complete Volume 2 of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, by far the largest and arguably the most important of the works that Mark Twain left deliberately unpublished at his death in 1910. Volume 2 will, like Volume 1 before it, be published both in print and on the Project's website, MTPO. (Volume 1 is now at the press and due out in August 2010.) One more volume will complete this, the first comprehensive edition of Mark Twain's last, major literary work. The Project also proposes to add the complete text of its print editions of Tom Sawyer and Connecticut Yankee to MTPO, along with another ten years of letters (through 1895). And it intends to make various necessary but challenging improvements and upgrades to the infrastructure of MTPO, which has recently been approved by the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the MLA.

The preparation for simultaneous print and online publication of Volume 3 of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, completion of editorial work on Twain's San Francisco Correspondence and The Innocents Abroad, and the addition of several of the project's print editions to the open access website. (24 months)

The Mark Twain Project proposes to proofread and index Volume 3 of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, publishing it in print and on its open-access website (MTPO) by the end of 2015. (Volume 1 was so published in November 2010 and has sold half a million copies; Volume 2 was published in October 2013 and 100,000 copies have been printed.) The Project also proposes to complete all editorial work on two important early works in Mark Twain's canon: San Francisco Correspondence, 1865-1866 (some of his brilliant journalism collected for the first time) and The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress (his first international bestseller). The Project also proposes to add the complete text of its print editions of Tom Sawyer and Notebooks & Journals, Volume 1 to MTPO, along with more letters (through 1883). And it plans to make various necessary upgrades and improvements to the infrastructure of MTPO, such as converting from TEI P4 to TEI P5.

The continuing preparation of an edition of Mark Twain's writings.