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I'm the librarian for the University of Florida Digital Collections, which supports digital humanities scholarship alongside of digitizing materials for preservation and access using the UF Digital Collections and its related tools. In my research, I'm interested in issues of creating and supporting digital humanities work and new forms of digital scholarship.
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- Brief Biography:
Laurie N. Taylor, PhD, is the librarian for the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC). Her current projects include continued development of UFDC, including existing projects and initiating discussions for potential new projects and partners. She is the technical director for the Digital Library of the Caribbean, technical director for the Florida Digital Newspaper Library, and co-principal investigator on America's Swamp: the Historical Everglades, a project to digitize six archival collections. Prior to joining UFDC in 2007, she taught undergraduate and graduate writing courses as well as workshops on digital media.
Her current research explores methods to digitally represent and contextualize archival materials, as well as other issues related to digital collections from cultural heritage institutions. She has published refereed articles on collaborative international digital libraries, digital media, library and information science, open access, and literature; and she co-edited a collection on digital representations of history and memory, Playing the Past: Video Games, History, and Memory.