WWP Publications and Presentations

Women Writers Online and Related Resources

• Women Writers Online, a digital collection of early women’s writing in English
• Women Writers in Context, a collection of scholarly essays and explorations of women's writing
• WWP Curricular Materials, including teaching materials and a searchable database of syllabi
• Women Writers in Review, a collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reviews, publication notices, literary histories, and other texts responding to works by early women writers
• Women Writers: Intertextual Networks, an interface for exploring the texts that WWO authors quote, cite, name, or otherwise reference.
• WWP Lab, a space where the WWP publishes experimental visualizations, datasets, publications, and other resources for exploring early women’s writing.

Reports on Grant-Funded Work

• Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist, 2018–2022, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Research report
• Intertextual Networks, 2016–2020, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: White Paper
• Taking TEI Further, 2011–2016, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Final report and white paper
• Cultures of Reception, 2010–2015, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Final report
• Encoding Names for Contextual Exploration in Digital Thematic Research Collections, 2008–2009, funded by NEH: Final report and white paper
• Seminars in Humanities Text Encoding with TEI, 2007–2009, funded by NEH: Final report
• Creating a Guide for Encoding Early Printed Books, 2003–2006, funded by NEH: Final report
• A Textbase of Pre-Victorian Women’s Writing in English, 1997–2000, funded by NEH: Final report
• Renaissance Women Online, 1997–1999, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Initial report and final report

Technical Reports

• Customizing TEI to Check Pointers, 2022. This paper describes how to use the TEI ODD customization mechanism to get validation of pointers, for example, to check that the @ref attribute of <persName> points to a <person>. The TEI source is also available.
• Dates and Times in DH: An annotated application profile of ISO 8601:2019 for use with TEI and other DH systems, 2026. This paper discusses how to create formal representations of dates and times including things like seasons, uncertainty, approximation, and multiple possibilities. These could be used, for example, on the TEI @when-iso attribute. The TEI source is also available.

Documentation

• A Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding: A detailed reference and guide to text encoding with TEI. The WWP Guide is an online resource designed to help scholars grapple with the whys and hows of text encoding. Clear, jargon-free, and aimed at a humanities audience, the Guide explains text encoding and XML markup from the ground up and provides detailed explanations of how to use the TEI Guidelines in scholarly digital projects.
• Women Writers Project Encoding Documentation: The WWP’s internal documentation database.
• Women Writers Project Training Materials: Various tutorials, training guides, and hotsheets.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Below are selected publications that WWP staff have published on topics such as markup, data modeling, and the digital humanities. For more information, see our full list of publications and presentations.

• Bauman, Syd. “Dates and Times in DH: An annotated application profile of ISO 8601:2019 for use with TEI and other DH systems.” Northeastern University Women Writers Project. (2026).
• Bauman, Syd. “Interchange vs. Interoperability.” Presented at at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011, Montréal, Canada, 2011. Published in Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2011. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies 7 (2011).
• Bauman, Syd. “Keying Names: The WWP Approach.” WWP Newsletter 3:1 (1997).
• Clark, Ash, Sarah Connell, and Julia Flanders. “The Endings Project: Principles and Recommendations Concerning Digital Longevity.” Presented at Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium, Boston Public Library, 11 April 2025.
• Clark, Ash. “A Wonderful Historie of Intertextual Networks: Or, How Not to Index Your Data.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2023, Washington, D.C., and published in Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2023. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies 28 (2023).
• Clark, Ash and Sarah Connell. “Meta(data)morphosis.” Presented at at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016, Washington D.C., and published in Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2016. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies 17 (2016).
• Connell, Sarah. “‘To Have the Language New Modell’d’: Digital Methods for Representing Gender and Identity in the Works of Aphra Behn.” Restoration. Special Issue on Aphra Behn. Elaine Hobby and Hannah Straw, eds. Forthcoming.
• Connell, Sarah. “Prince & Digital Humanities.” Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince. Nicole Aljoe, ed. Cambridge University Press. 2025.
• Connell, Sarah. “Companions, Competitors, Contexts: Margaret Cavendish in Women Writers Online.” Margaret Cavendish: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Brandie Siegfried and Lisa Walters, eds. Cambridge University Press. 2022.
• Flanders, Julia. “Reading Models, Modeling Reading: Digital texts and human readers,” Philological Quarterly 104.1-2, 2026.
• Flanders, Julia. “Beyond Social Editing: Peer-to-peer Systems for Digital Editions,” in The Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing, ed. Matt Cohen, Caterina Bernardini, and Kenneth M. Price. University of Minnesota Press (2024).
• Flanders, Julia. The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities: Modeling Texts and Text-based Resources (co-editor, with Fotis Jannidis). Routledge Press. 2018.