Editorial Process
CWGK’s editorial work encompasses two distinct phases of work: textual access and intellectual access.
Our textual access work encompasses the digitization, transcription, and formatting of documents so they are available to researchers.
The intellectual phase of CWGK’s work includes the development of annotated biographies about every person, place, and organization that appears within the aforementioned documents.
To explain how CWGK does that work, the links found on this page explain the policies, methods, and editorial decisions that the project has developed to its textual and intellectual work.
Editorial Policy
The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition approaches the documents with a light editorial hand in order to provide the most content with the least interference to the researcher.
Helpful Links
Document Selection
These documents have been pulled from across the offices of all five wartime governors to showcase the diversity of document genres, geographic locations, and nature of interactions they record between the executive branch and citizens, freed people, businesses, government officials, and military officers.
Report on Omeka Classic for Documentary Editions
This report covers the development and design decisions made by the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition project team and distills some observations about the usefulness of Omeka as a digital publication platform for documentary editions.