Woolf Online

http://www.woolfonline.com/

Woolf Online is a digital archive containing the holograph drafts, proofs, early editions, and contextual materials on the subject of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the site is divided into four major sections of material: (1) Bibliography, which displays an exhaustive list of criticism on To the Lighthouse with respective links to each citation; (2) Contextual, which contains digital scans as well as transcriptions of material about the novel like newspaper reviews, letters, and journal entries; (3) Image, which showcases scans of the original manuscripts, essay drafts, early editions, proofs, etc.; and (4) Text, which contains transcription pages of the aforementioned material.

In relation to our readings this week, the Woolf Online archive displays the true potential of hypermedia in its range and extent. It is a resource I hadn't known about before, but one I will certainly use in my future scholarship on Woolf. Significantly, the site contains digital scans of proofs heretofore solely available for viewing in the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College in Massachusetts. Moreover, the content is organized in a clear and deliberate manner. The resource is now hosted by the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University and, in McGann's words, has the potential to--indeed, the expectation to--be "indefinitely expanded and developed" (470).

Other Sources Consulted:
https://www.smith.edu/news/new-digital-humanities-project-virginia-woolf/