Co-Investigator and Digital Humanities Project Leader for Shakespeare’s World. Initiated this partnership between Zooniverse, Folger Shakespeare Library and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2014, leading to the development of Shakespeare’s World.
- Project link: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/shakespeares-world
- Community management on the Talk platform: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/shakespeares-world/talk/search?query=%40vvh
- Shakespeare’s World blog: https://blog.shakespearesworld.org/
Outcomes
- antedatings and new words for the OED: https://public.oed.com/blog/september-2017-update-release-notes-white-lie-and-shakespeares-world/
- Connected the Folger and Shakespeare’s World team with Great British Bake Off star Mary Anne Boermans to collaborate on improving historic food terms for the Oxford English Dictionary. See the results of our collaboration here: https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/author/mary-anne-boermans/