Welcome!

This is the inaugural post for the Descriptive Bibliography of Charlotte Lennox. This project is still in its nascent stages, but to my mind that presents an opportunity seldom available: a chance to not only undertake a significant project (of a massive scope for one person, let’s be honest), but to create a public record of how and where and with what tools I’m trying to put it all together.

My goal is to eventually create an open-access, online, digitally born descriptive bibliography for the works of Charlotte Lennox. This blog will serve as the first markers on the virtual landscape, as it were, while I determine the scope, outline the plans, accumulate the materials, build the interface, and provide the interpretations of the eventual data. This project is a long time in the works even to this point, and it will be an even longer time until it’s completed. That being said, I believe it will be a worthwhile resource for scholars — not just because it provides an archive of Lennox’s life’s work and the materiality of those resulting publications, but because it stands to greatly expand out knowledge of what bibliography means in a world where scholarship is as much digital as analog.

In future posts, I plan to break down the stages of this project, the tools and methodologies I’m applying, the approach and rationale I’m using, and the early data I’ve accumulated (as well as the gaps therein), as well as a window into where things will go from here. I’m implementing a metadata tagging system within the blog so it’ll be easier to find relevant posts in the future by subject or reference. I’ll also be including images where useful, though it won’t be my primary focus.

In the end, I hope this blog (as well as the final project) will be useful to potential readers, if only as a record of how to climb the proverbial mountain one step at a time. I hope you’ll consider joining me on this journey. I can’t wait to see how it all turns out.