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About Documents Compass
Documents Compass is a non-profit organization, formed in 2007 by two Documentary Editors who recognized the need to provide tools for bringing their works to the Internet in a rapidly changing environment. They established this service provider to create an intermediary between the scholar/editor and the publisher. They were joined in 2008 by a lifelong librarian/academic publisher who added to their experience pool.
Documents Compass will provide for the future of electronic editions by creating a set of standards and practices. It will centralize and regularize those aspects of electronic publication that are most vexing for editors and expensive for publishers. It will save the best of the past for the benefit of the future. They operate under the auspices of The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, which provides support and operational overview to Documents Compass activities.
Sue Perdue, Documentary Editing Consultant, is the Senior Associate Editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, where she has been heavily involved with the development of the project’s content management and tagging systems. She has also worked on the papers of John Marshall and James Madison. She is the co-editor of the third edition of The Guide to Documentary Editing. She can be reached at Sue@DocumentsCompass.org.
Holly Cowan Shulman, Founding Director, is an American historian at the University of Virginia. She is the editor of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition (University of Virginia Press) and the co-editor of the The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison. She is the author or co-editor of three other books and numerous scholarly articles, and has also produced websites on Dolley Madison and women in the civil rights movement. She is Director of Documentary Editions at the Virginia Center for Digital History and Research Professor, Studies in Women and Gender at UVA. She can be reached at Holly@DocumentsCompass.org. .
Susan Severtson,Communications Director, has been Vice President of HarpWeek and President of Chadwyck-Healey. She has over twenty years experience in the realm of digital academic publishing, and worked with standards organizations and service providers in all aspects of the publication process. She can be reached at Susan@DocumentsCompass.org.
