An in-depth archive of documents related to poet Walt Whitman are among the treasures owned and housed in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, but it could soon have a wider audience of students and scholars thanks to UNL joining the CIC, reports the Omaha World Herald.
When the University of Nebraska-Lincoln joins the conference next year, it also will join an academic network that is expected to strengthen the effort to construct a massive digital archive of the works of 19th-century American poet Walt Whitman.
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Once UNL is part of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the shared network involving Big Ten schools and the University of Chicago, UNL can join the Hathi Trust, a digital collection of more than 6 million volumes from libraries at universities across the country.
That would expose the Whitman Archive to a wider audience and “hopefully it would give it a higher visibility and higher use,” said Kim Armstrong, deputy director of the Center for Library Initiatives, an office within the network.
Folsom said UNL's digital research center, a joint initiative of UNL Libraries and the College of Arts and Sciences, “will bring the most developed digital humanities center to the CIC.”
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