The Speeches and Articles of Margaret Sanger, 1911-1959: A Digital Edition
Abstract
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project, a historical editing project, has completed microfilm and book editions documenting the life of America’s best-known birth control activist. With our digital edition, the Speeches and Articles of Margaret Sanger, the Project will enable researchers to study some 600 of Sanger’s public writings in detail. These include Sanger’s editorials and articles in the Birth Control Review and the Woman Rebel, as well as articles published in True Confessions, the Nation, and in encyclopedias. The site also includes iconic speeches, such as those made before the British Fabian Society in 1915 and at her 1929 speech on the importance of being suppressed at Boston’s Ford Hall Forum. The documents are encoded using XML to create a freely accessible website searchable by text as well as selected keywords. The Margaret Sanger Papers Project has built common metadata for searching as well as a detailed subject index that will allow users even great searching flexibility. I propose to create a poster session demonstrating the site and explaining the process of digitizing a historical document for both searchability and access.
The Speeches and Articles of Margaret Sanger, 1911-1959: A Digital Edition
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project, a historical editing project, has completed microfilm and book editions documenting the life of America’s best-known birth control activist. With our digital edition, the Speeches and Articles of Margaret Sanger, the Project will enable researchers to study some 600 of Sanger’s public writings in detail. These include Sanger’s editorials and articles in the Birth Control Review and the Woman Rebel, as well as articles published in True Confessions, the Nation, and in encyclopedias. The site also includes iconic speeches, such as those made before the British Fabian Society in 1915 and at her 1929 speech on the importance of being suppressed at Boston’s Ford Hall Forum. The documents are encoded using XML to create a freely accessible website searchable by text as well as selected keywords. The Margaret Sanger Papers Project has built common metadata for searching as well as a detailed subject index that will allow users even great searching flexibility. I propose to create a poster session demonstrating the site and explaining the process of digitizing a historical document for both searchability and access.