ModNets is the long-awaited hub for peer-reviewed digital scholarship in modernist studies. Here’s an excerpt from “What Is ModNets?”:
Modernist Networks (“ModNets”) is a federation of digital projects in the field of modernist literary and cultural studies. ModNets has the dual goals of providing a vetting community for digital modernist scholarship and a technological infrastructure to support
development of scholarly projects and access to scholarship on modernist literature and culture. ModNets aims to promote affiliated digital projects; to offer peer review based on content, conception, and technical design; to provide editorial and technical support; to evolve standards and “best practices”; and to maintain a system for the aggregation of scholarly resources in the field.
The collection will feature works of scholarship including:
- Digital editions of a text or set of texts
- Digital concordances or search engine referencing some archive
- Digital exhibits or teaching resources
- Presentations of linguistic data based on a set of texts
- Hypertext chronologies of lives or events
An inaugural member of the federation is Woolf Online, an important resource for those of us interested in teaching modernist women’s writing — and I’m also happy to see a feature that allows for instructors and students to work together in the ModNets Classroom. Potential contributors to TMWWE with an interest in digital scholarship are encouraged to visit the site and think about how they might use it in their teaching. Feel free to reflect in the comments.
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