Pre-Raphaelites Online

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Study of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) is hampered by a few material limitations: many of the significant works are interdisciplinary "double works" that align texts with images; the artwork is dispersed across galleries and individual collections; and the PRB was made up of multiple artists and authors working in a variety of media. We propose dealing with these challenges by promoting collaboration among museum professionals and academic scholars to build upon an online platform that makes it easy to link images, timelines, maps and annotated critical editions of Pre-Raphaelite works and images. The interface and toolset will allow us to bring together curators, art historians, and literary scholars in joint creation of an open-access repository of information about the PRB and the Aesthetic movement. Participants include the most significant galleries dedicated to Pre-Raphaelite work (especially the Delaware Art Museum, the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Watts Gallery); libraries that hold PRB material (especially the Cadbury Research Library at the U of Birmingham and the University of Delaware Library, with its 9,500 books, letters, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, and artworks in the Mark Samuels Lasner collection); the most respected online repository of PRB work, Jerome McGann's Rossetti Archive; and three of the most well-regarded UK centres dedicated to Victorian studies (Exeter's Centre for Victorian Studies, Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, and Birmingham's Nineteenth-Century Centre) in joint creation of an online resource devoted to the PRB and its influence on the British Aesthetic movement. We will build on an already existing infrastructure: The COVE or The Central Online Victorian Educator at http://covecollective.org, an open-access site that makes it possible for multiple people to make additions to one of four interconnected tools: a multimedia annotation tool; a timeline tool; a geospatial map tool; and a gallery-builder. Each tool is designed so that multiple individuals can work simultaneously in joint creation of a resource. Products built with the tools can also be interconnected, with interactive maps embedded in timeline elements, or gallery images associated on the same page with map elements and timeline elements, as can be seen in this prototype example linking Rossetti Archive scholarship with a map and timeline that draw from the COVE database (scroll down for the map and timeline): https://editions.covecollective.org/content/dante-gabriel-rossetti-elizabeth-eleanor-siddal-1861COVE includes mechanisms for peer review, copy-editing and proofing of products submitted for publication. Once published, each individual element from timelines, maps and galleries is made available to future users for repurposing in new custom timelines, maps and galleries. Such portability ensures the future relevance of the material in the collection, making it available not only to scholars but also to students in the classroom or the general public. PRO: Pre-Raphaelites Online will have its own domain name (procollective.org) and site; however, it will be integrated into COVE so that it can draw from material at COVE (and vice-versa), thus maximising the versatility, usefulness and impact of the site. COVE supplies the digital infrastructure; the museums supply the digital content; but the network members provide the expertise, intellectual curiosity, and enthusiasm to conceive of innovative ways of developing fresh research. The network events will allow participants to devise clear plans for large-scale projects--curated galleries of 3d-scanned Pre-Raphaelite jewellery, or an annotated edition of Moxon's illustrated Tennyson, for example--and develop the groundwork for the major grant bids that will support those projects through to completion.