With a nearly $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Matt Cohen, professor of English, and Kenneth Price, Hillegass University Professor of American Literature, are rebuilding the Walt Whitman Archive website, implementing a modern framework and repackaging site content for easier reuse. The long-term goal is to enhance the archive’s accessibility and sustainability by making it easier for users to search and organize materials on the site, which, at nearly 25 years old, is the leading resource for Walt Whitman scholars. The team is improving the website’s digital architecture by changing the programming framework; developing a machine-readable interface for the website’s code, images and metadata; revising files to improve the metadata; and strengthening existing metadata through a new search engine. The archive is published by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.
