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New Visualizations Highlight the Impact of Gender on Early Modern Scientific Networks

New Visualizations Highlight the Impact of Gender on Early Modern Scientific Networks

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The “New Digital Methods for Understanding The Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy” project has released the first set of visualizations exploring the roles that women played, and could have played, in early modern scientific discourse. This project is a London-Boston, collaborative project between Northeastern University London, the PolyGraphs project, the NULab, and the Women Writers Project (the project PIs are Sarah Connell, Julia Flanders, Brian Ball, and Peter West). The project examines and highlights the impacts of…

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Celebrating More Than Thirty Years of the Women Writers Project

Celebrating More Than Thirty Years of the Women Writers Project

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The WWP is delighted to announce the release of Always in Progress: Three Decades of the Women Writers Project, a documentary by John Melson. Work on this documentary begin in 2018 as part of the WWP’s celebrations of the project’s thirtieth anniversary. This milestone marked an opportunity to reflect on the WWP’s decades of work bringing texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive to make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, and scholars. The documentary shares…

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The WWP begins research on the impacts of early women writers on science and philosophy

The WWP begins research on the impacts of early women writers on science and philosophy

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We are excited to announce that the WWP has begun work on a new project, “New Digital Methods for Understanding The Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy,” funded by a Northeastern University TIER 1 mentored grant awarded to professors Peter West (NU London), Sarah Connell (English), Julia Flanders (English), and Brian Ball (NU London). This project will examine and highlight the impacts of early women scientists and natural philosophers on the development of these…

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Exploring women’s texts with the Women Writers Online: Scrabble Discovery Interface

Exploring women’s texts with the Women Writers Online: Scrabble Discovery Interface

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Here’s another way to explore the WWO collection during Women’s History Month: on April Fools Day, 2017 we released the Women Writers Online Scrabble Discovery Interface, an exciting new tool that enhances the texts in Women Writers Online by allowing users to discover the Scrabble® scores for the words in each text. Using cutting-edge XML technologies, this interface excludes non-playable words such as proper nouns, words in dialect, and non-English words. For example, the highest scoring single word in WWO…

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Announcing the launch of Women Writers: Intertextual Networks

Announcing the launch of Women Writers: Intertextual Networks

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We are very excited to announce a new open-access research tool! Women Writers: Intertextual Networks is the result of a three-year project focusing on intertextuality in early women’s writing. This collaborative research initiative examined the citation and quotation practices of the authors represented in Women Writers Online (WWO) to explore and theorize the representation of intertextuality, and to study the ways in which early women writers named, cited, quoted, and remixed texts by other authors. We identified and encoded each of…

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Women Writers Online is Free for the Month of March

Women Writers Online is Free for the Month of March

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We are delighted to announce that Women Writers Online (WWO) will once again be free during the month of March in celebration of Women’s History Month. The collection contains more than 430 texts written and translated by women, published between 1526 and 1850. We also invite you to explore our other publications, which are always open access. These include Women Writers in Review (WWiR), a collection of close to 700 reviews of and responses to works in WWO, and Women…

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Women Writers Online Is Free for the Month of March

Women Writers Online Is Free for the Month of March

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We are delighted to announce that Women Writers Online (WWO) will once again be free during the month of March in celebration of Women’s History Month. The collection contains more than 420 texts written and translated by women, and published between 1526 and 1850. We also invite you to explore our other publications, which are always open access. These include Women Writers in Review (WWiR), a collection of close to 700 reviews of and responses to works in WWO, and Women Writers in Context (WWiC), a…

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Announcing new additions to “Thirty Years, Thirty Ideas”

Announcing new additions to “Thirty Years, Thirty Ideas”

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We are excited to share that we’ve now added three new exhibits to the “Thirty Years, “Thirty Ideas” series. The series of short explorations of Women Writers Online launched in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Women Writers Project in 2018. In this series, authors consider a single topic—such as reading, childbirth, war, servants, clothing, or the environment—as an entry point into the WWO collection. The essays in the series, published on our open-access Women Writers in Context platform, are aimed at kindling excitement in readers…

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Entity Linking Research Paper Works with WWO Data

Entity Linking Research Paper Works with WWO Data

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We are thrilled to share the publication of From Zero to Hero: Human-In-The-Loop Entity Linking in Low Resource Domains by Jan-Christoph Klie, Richard Eckart de Castilho, and Iryna Gurevych. The project focused on improving entity linking (EL) annotation by presenting a Human-In-The-Loop annotation approach to speed up the annotation process and make it less tedious.  From Zero to Hero worked with three datasets, including data from Women Writers Online (WWO). Documents from WWO have been annotated with named entities and…

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The WWP begins research on the representation of racial identities in early women’s writing

The WWP begins research on the representation of racial identities in early women’s writing

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We are excited to announce that the WWP has begun work on a new project, “Representing Racial Identity in Early Women’s Writing,” funded by a Northeastern University TIER 1 grant awarded to professors Julia Flanders and Nicole Aljoe.  This project will develop new text encoding protocols and prototype data visualizations with attention to the representation of race in the Women Writers Online collection of early women’s texts. We will also convene an international group of scholars who work in critical…

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