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The issue I’d like to discuss is how to streamline the creation of a web presence for our scholarly publications. Since for tenure purposes we still have to publish print books, some scholars are thinking about ways to extend their books to the web (e.g. environmental historians Richard White and Karl Jacoby). This is often a costly and time-consuming endeavor, but can yield great rewards as a way to share data, explore areas that didn’t fit in the book, or even engage stakeholders in the research.

At what stage in a project should we create a site? What tools are available–or could be built–to facilitate companion sites? How can print and digital forms compliment each other and increase exposure of and interest in humanities scholarship?

Links to check out:
Richard White has posted visualizations relating to his new book, Railroaded, through Stanford’s Spatial History Lab.  Note that some of these visualizations include links to download the complete data sets he used.

Karl Jacoby’s companion website for Shadows at Dawn includes a large number of primary source materials cited in the book as well as links to media coverage and lesson plans.