1	California Digital Library Whither goes eScholarship? XML and the Mark Twain Project Catherine Mitchell, Ph.D. Manager, Publishing Services Office of Scholarly Communication University of California Catherine H.Candee Director, Publishing and Strategic Initiatives Office of Scholarly Communication University of California
2	eScholarship Program What do we do? Provide leadership and operational support for the University of California’s efforts to develop an innovative and sustainable scholarly publishing system
3	Mark Twain Project A new dimension of CDL’s scholarly publishing initiatives New tools for textual criticism and analysis A prototype for responsible and sustainable digital critical editions A node of intersection between technology and the humanities
4	eScholarship Program But first: how did we get here?
5	eScholarship Program Distinct forms of scholarly communication through distinct digital publishing platforms: eScholarship Repository: library/faculty partnership; enables greater faculty control over publishing & dissemination eScholarship Editions: CDL/University Press partnership to extend publishing capabilities and experiment with new roles
6	eScholarship Repository Full spectrum publishing platform: pre-prints and reports, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals Existing university structure: research units and departments as gatekeepers; editorial and administrative functions distributed High usage and adoption rate: 200+ UC academic units and departments; >11,000 papers; >61,000 full-text downloads per week; >2.9 million downloads to date (as of April 6, 2006)
7	eScholarship Editions CDL-UCP partnership: nearly 2,000 XML-coded UC Press monographs, available to all UC faculty, staff and students, with select titles available to public Publishing goals: Streamlined work flow; opportunity for content delivery in multiple formats from a single, master XML file Usage goals: Finding new ways of serving up information that better fit the research and pedagogical needs of faculty and students
8	eScholarship Publishing Challenges eScholarship Repository Optimized for journal articles not monographs PDF format: no current support for XML publishing eScholarship Editions Getting XML out: workflow and technology Getting the XML word out: partnership buy-in
9	But wait…Why XML? What are the services we should be offering through eScholarship? How does XML affect functionality in a significant way for scholars, teachers, students, libraries? Do the advantages of the technology justify the resources required for building and supporting it?
10	XML and the Scholarly Edition Convergence of XML-TEI tech capabilities and textual criticism Extending the work a scholarly edition can do and the kinds of research it can support Mark Twain Project aspirations
11	Mark Twain Project Digitizing Mark Twain: the transformation of a textual editorial project Rights Funders Strategic Partnerships
12	MTP: The Collaboration
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23	MTP: Core Technologies
24	Mark Twain Project Launch: March 2007
25	Epilogue – courtesy of Mark Twain Well, my book is written--let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library... - Letter to W. D. Howells, 9/22/1889