Better Practices in Data Management with Erin Wolfe & Jamene Brooks-Kieffer (BBIP Webinar 6/14/2019)

The Black Book Interactive Project (BBIP) - part of the University of Kansas's History of Black Writing project (HBW) - is a digital archive of over 7,000 Black-authored texts. It launched in 2010 and has received funding from KU, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. PhiloLogic, a searchable online metadata platform from the Textual Optics Lab at the University of Chicago, powers BBIP's HBW Novel Corpus.
These webinars are part of BBIP's Extending the Reach Scholars Program: a series of live event digital humanities webinars conducted by BBIP community partners and advisors that inform and support the scholars’ work.
Erin Wolfe is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Kansas, where he works with the Libraries on a variety of tasks involving the creation, access, and preservation of digital materials. His research interests include computational text analysis, text data mining and visualization, machine learning, and related areas.
Jamene Brooks-Kieffer is the Data Services Librarian and Coordinator of Digital Scholarship at the University of Kansas Libraries. She has worked as a professional academic librarian since 2006. Prior to her current role in data services, she specialized in serials, electronic resources, and OpenURL linking. She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College, the University of Mississippi, and Florida State University and is a certified Software Carpentry Instructor.