The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 25.314 Friday, 11 July 2014
From: Alexa Huang <
Date: July 9, 2014 at 5:55:44 PM EDT
Subject: Shakespeare Digital Challenge
From Alexa Huang, Chair of the MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
Announcement
The New Variorum Shakespeare Digital Challenge: The Second Round
The MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (NVS) is sponsoring its second digital challenge to find the most innovative and compelling uses of the data contained in one of the NVS editions. This year the MLA is making available the XML files and schema for two volumes, The Winter’s Tale and The Comedy of Errors, under a Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 license.
Scholars can freely download the XML files and schema from GitHub: https://github.com/mlaa/nvs-challenge.
The committee seeks entries featuring new means of displaying, representing, and exploring this data in the most exciting API, interface, visualization, or data-mining project. It is especially interested in entries that combine the NVS data with another Shakespearian project, such as Folger Digital Texts, Internet Shakespeare Editions, or Open Source Shakespeare. The goal is to see the possibilities of the NVS in digital form and, in particular, the innovations in scholarly research that might be enabled by opening up the NVS’s code. Projects will thus be judged both on the quality of the interface they provide for the NVS and on the insights produced by the mash-up.
The deadline for entries is 1 September 2014. The committee will assess the submissions and select the winner no later than 1 October 2014. The prize of $500 and an award certificate will be given at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver.
Entries may be sent to
For more information about our partner projects, please contact Michael Best (
Please note that our partners are available to answer questions about the resources, not to provide technical support.
For more info and to see winners of the first round, visit: http://www.mla.org/nvs_challenge