About Documents Compass
Documents Compass is a non-profit organization. It was 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 librarian/academic publisher who added to their experience pool. They are a part of The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Staff
Susan Holbrook Perdue, Director, was formerly the Senior Associate Editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, where she was 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 ssh8a@virginia.edu.
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 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 a Research Professor, Department of History, at UVA. She can be reached at hcs8n@virginia.edu
Susan M. Q. 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 ss5nq@virginia.edu.
Contact
Documents Compass
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
145 Ednam Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629
Phone: 434-924-4519