¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Everything keeps moving—that has been the most important aspect of the past week. Steve Zweibel’s visit to class last Wednesday was informative, and his presentation encouraged me to articulate, in our data management plan, how we can document our conversations and development processes for those interested in the project in the future. Brian’s sketch of the Postgres database tables required to execute end/line was also extremely helpful. Greg’s work on the wireframes, meanwhile, and his decision to use Bootstrap and EJS has also proved useful for front-end development.
¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 This week, however, we’re turning to outreach and scholarly communication. Iuri has been great reaching out to potential users and beta testers, and Michael has our social media and Commons presence up and running. But while we have a functioning Twitter (and some back-and-forth with the Zine Union Catalog) and a project blog, I think we’ll need to think more deeply about design and communications this week. We need consistent styles across platforms (Twitter, Commons blog, endlineproject.org) and clearer editorial guidelines for different audiences (e.g. there’s a difference between witty tweets for followers and technically-precise emails to potential beta testers). As we delve deeper into these details, I expect that community management and development work will diverge for a few weeks. Keeping these two groups on track, and informed of how the work of one influences the work of the other, will be my biggest challenge as project manager.
Biographical and Research Statement
¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 At the CUNY Graduate Center, Tom Lewek is a MALS student whose work focuses on the intersections of the digital humanities and twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics. He proposed end/line, a web application for encoding and comparing encodings of poetry with TEI XML, in January 2017 and currently serves as its project director and project manager. These roles entail establishing, refining, and communicating the project’s humanistic importance and working with the community management and development teams to deliver it.
¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Outside of the Graduate Center, he is the head of online production at the Modern Language Association where he coordinates the content management and web development of mla.org, the Literary Research Guide, various MLA publications on Humanities Commons, and other digital products and properties.
