Rossetti Archive
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: Rossetti Archive
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:03:29 -0400
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From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2006.
http://scout.wisc.edu/
Rossetti Archive
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/index.html
Not unlike its contemporary, the William Blake Archive (mentioned in the
January 2nd, 1998 Scout Report), the Rossetti Archive exists to advance the
study of one particular painter and writer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "who
was, according to both John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and
original artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in
Great Britain." The Rossetti Archive does this by transporting traditional
methods of humanities scholarship into the digital environment, by providing
what will eventually be a comprehensive collection of digital versions of
all Rossetti's works, supplemented with analysis, notes, and editorial
commentary. Ultimately, it will be easy for scholars to use any digital
object in the Rossetti Archive, as well as share their analyses, and view
others' work. In addition, the Rossetti Archive is one of the collaborators
in NINES (http://www.nines.org/index.html), an attempt to bring together the
numerous digital humanities projects that have come online in the last 10
years, and facilitate online collaboration between scholars. [DS]