Beverley Park Rilett
Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013
Assistant Research Professor & Lecturer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013-2021
Associate Research Professor, Auburn University, 2021-present
Address: Associate Research Professor
Special Collections and Archives
Auburn University Libraries
231 Mell Street
Auburn University, AL 36849
Bdr0032@auburn.edu
Director, George Eliot Archive
Director, George Eliot Scholars
Director, George Eliot Review Online
Vice President, George Eliot Fellowship
Assistant Research Professor & Lecturer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2013-2021
Associate Research Professor, Auburn University, 2021-present
Address: Associate Research Professor
Special Collections and Archives
Auburn University Libraries
231 Mell Street
Auburn University, AL 36849
Bdr0032@auburn.edu
Director, George Eliot Archive
Director, George Eliot Scholars
Director, George Eliot Review Online
Vice President, George Eliot Fellowship
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In this talk, I explain the processes for developing content for the George Eliot Archive digital public humanities project. Transcribing and encoding manuscript material is a relatively small portion of our work at present; instead, our focus has been on developing as many research resources as possible for open public access, including public domain materials curated from multiple databases and born-digital data visualizations.
See the complete roundtable here on YouTube (with speaker view):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeeUDn8PlLI
Additional information about the speakers and event:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-nineteenth-century-archives-and-handwriting-in-the-digital-age-tickets-137816864953
Publications by Beverley Park Rilett
My Victorian Novel
Annette Federico, ed.
Columbia: U of Missouri Press, 2020
pp 109-128
Our long-term goal is to provide access to all of Eliot’s incoming and outgoing correspondence as well. Please check back frequently for updates as this first single-author scholarly website on George Eliot continues to develop as the primary online site for Eliot scholarship.
The Archive’s sister site, the George Eliot Review Online <https://georgeeliotreview.org>, makes all issues of the George Eliot Review journal from its inception in 1970 freely accessible on the internet for the first time. This digital project, launched in December 2017, has been made possible in partnership with the journal’s publishers, the George Eliot Fellowship.
For updates on all George Eliot social events, including lectures, conferences, tours of "George Eliot Country", wreath-laying, memorial tending, preservation plans for Bird Grove and the Visitors' Center at Griff, souvenirs, and much more, please see visit the George Eliot Fellowship's website <https://GeorgeEliot.org>.
Our two digital projects, the George Eliot Archive and the George Eliot Review Online were peer-reviewed and accredited with no suggested revisions by the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES) and the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) in November 2019 and were highly recommended in the January 2020 issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities. The projects have been featured on local NET (NPR) radio and endorsed on the websites of the George Eliot Fellowship and the Victorian Web. We are currently collaborating with the North American Victorian Studies Association’s Central Online Victorian Educator (COVE) to share resources and content
The George Eliot Archive and George Eliot Review Online have been developed by Dr. Beverley Rilett and her small but mighty team of research assistants at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
<p>This digital project, based at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been developed in collaboration with journal’s publishers, the George Eliot Fellowship, and editors, Drs. John Rignall, Michael Davis, and A. G. van den Broek. This digitized version allows readers to search contents by year, issue number, author, genre, and subject. </p>
<p>George Eliot Review Online is directed by Dr. Beverley Park Rilett, Faculty Fellow with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and Research Assistant Professor with the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the ongoing contributions of her enthusiastic graduate and undergraduate research assistants. Financial support has been generously supplied through internal funding initiatives including the College of Arts and Science’s ENHANCE faculty research grant and successive Undergraduate Creative Activity and Research Experience (UCARE) supporting undergraduate research experience.</p>
<p>History of the Project</p>
<p>The George Eliot Review Digitization Project is directed by Dr. Beverley Rilett of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who has dedicated much of her career to studying George Eliot. In October of 2015, she visited Eliot’s hometown in Nuneaton, England, to meet with John Burton, Chair of the George Eliot Fellowship. One of the topics they discussed was the inaccessibility of the Fellowship’s peer-reviewed specialty journal, the George Eliot Review, (formerly the George Eliot Fellowship Review) because it was not available online. Public and university libraries have been eliminating their collections of print journals and opting for electronic editions instead. The transatlantic collaboration of Professor Rilett and Mr. Burton, which resulted in the George Eliot Review Digitization Project, effectively saved these important journals for future scholars. Their international, non-commercial Creative Commons publication agreement acknowledges their shared commitment to worldwide free, open access to public scholarship.</p>
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689202/pdf
Presentations by Beverley Park Rilett
Papers by Beverley Park Rilett
In this talk, I explain the processes for developing content for the George Eliot Archive digital public humanities project. Transcribing and encoding manuscript material is a relatively small portion of our work at present; instead, our focus has been on developing as many research resources as possible for open public access, including public domain materials curated from multiple databases and born-digital data visualizations.
See the complete roundtable here on YouTube (with speaker view):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeeUDn8PlLI
Additional information about the speakers and event:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-nineteenth-century-archives-and-handwriting-in-the-digital-age-tickets-137816864953
My Victorian Novel
Annette Federico, ed.
Columbia: U of Missouri Press, 2020
pp 109-128
Our long-term goal is to provide access to all of Eliot’s incoming and outgoing correspondence as well. Please check back frequently for updates as this first single-author scholarly website on George Eliot continues to develop as the primary online site for Eliot scholarship.
The Archive’s sister site, the George Eliot Review Online <https://georgeeliotreview.org>, makes all issues of the George Eliot Review journal from its inception in 1970 freely accessible on the internet for the first time. This digital project, launched in December 2017, has been made possible in partnership with the journal’s publishers, the George Eliot Fellowship.
For updates on all George Eliot social events, including lectures, conferences, tours of "George Eliot Country", wreath-laying, memorial tending, preservation plans for Bird Grove and the Visitors' Center at Griff, souvenirs, and much more, please see visit the George Eliot Fellowship's website <https://GeorgeEliot.org>.
Our two digital projects, the George Eliot Archive and the George Eliot Review Online were peer-reviewed and accredited with no suggested revisions by the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES) and the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) in November 2019 and were highly recommended in the January 2020 issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities. The projects have been featured on local NET (NPR) radio and endorsed on the websites of the George Eliot Fellowship and the Victorian Web. We are currently collaborating with the North American Victorian Studies Association’s Central Online Victorian Educator (COVE) to share resources and content
The George Eliot Archive and George Eliot Review Online have been developed by Dr. Beverley Rilett and her small but mighty team of research assistants at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
<p>This digital project, based at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been developed in collaboration with journal’s publishers, the George Eliot Fellowship, and editors, Drs. John Rignall, Michael Davis, and A. G. van den Broek. This digitized version allows readers to search contents by year, issue number, author, genre, and subject. </p>
<p>George Eliot Review Online is directed by Dr. Beverley Park Rilett, Faculty Fellow with the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and Research Assistant Professor with the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the ongoing contributions of her enthusiastic graduate and undergraduate research assistants. Financial support has been generously supplied through internal funding initiatives including the College of Arts and Science’s ENHANCE faculty research grant and successive Undergraduate Creative Activity and Research Experience (UCARE) supporting undergraduate research experience.</p>
<p>History of the Project</p>
<p>The George Eliot Review Digitization Project is directed by Dr. Beverley Rilett of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who has dedicated much of her career to studying George Eliot. In October of 2015, she visited Eliot’s hometown in Nuneaton, England, to meet with John Burton, Chair of the George Eliot Fellowship. One of the topics they discussed was the inaccessibility of the Fellowship’s peer-reviewed specialty journal, the George Eliot Review, (formerly the George Eliot Fellowship Review) because it was not available online. Public and university libraries have been eliminating their collections of print journals and opting for electronic editions instead. The transatlantic collaboration of Professor Rilett and Mr. Burton, which resulted in the George Eliot Review Digitization Project, effectively saved these important journals for future scholars. Their international, non-commercial Creative Commons publication agreement acknowledges their shared commitment to worldwide free, open access to public scholarship.</p>
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/689202/pdf
Here is a link to the introduction to the issue: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/689189/pdf