Research, Programs, and Projects
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Brief Bio:
Laurie N. Taylor, PhD, is the Digital Humanities Librarian for the UF Digital Collections (UFDC), and associated collections and projects hosted by the UF Libraries using SobekCM including the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and many others. Her work focuses on building scholarly cyberinfrastructure to build, preserve, and ensure findability and usability for digital humanities and other digital scholarship projects with digital collections. She is the technical director for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), technical director for the Florida Digital Newspaper Library, and was co-principal investigator on America’s Swamp: the Historical Everglades, a project to digitize six archival collections. She supervises interns working on class-credit internships on UFDC and related digital scholarship projects. Prior to joining the Digital Library Center in 2007, she taught undergraduate digital humanities courses and graduate writing courses, as well as workshops on digital technologies.
Her current research explores methods to digitally represent and contextualize archival materials, as well as other issues related to the digital humanities. She has published refereed articles on collaborative international digital libraries, digital media, library and information science, open access, and literature; and she co-edited a collection on digital representations of history and memory, Playing the Past: Video Games, History, and Memory.