Thomas Dabbs speaks with Laura Mandell of Texas A&M University and director of the university's Center of Digital Humanities Research or CoDHR. The CoDHR is  the publisher of the New Variorum Shakespeare, a project that is working to provide open Internet access to the full history of Shakespearean editions and annotations, and much, much more: The CoDHR supports a dazzling array of DH projects in the areas of digital development and in multidisciplinary research and publication. Among Laura's many contributions to scholarship, is her monograph, or better, manifesto, entitled “Breaking the Book,” which works to reveal why there remains a resistance to the digital humanities in traditional humanities disciplines. [LINKS] New Variorum Shakespeare: https://newvariorumshakespeare.org Jullia Flanders TEI-c.org: https://tei-c.org IATH: http://www.iath.virginia.edu The Poetess Archive: https://poetess.dh.tamu.edu/index.html Blake Archive: http://www.blakearchive.org ARC: https://arc.dh.tamu.edu [SEGMENTS] 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:36 - The New Variorum Shakespeare (online) 00:13:38 - The advantages of TEI 00:17:24 - Encoding challenges and solutions 00:27:32 - 18th-century, The Poetess Archive 00:30:26 - Searchable databases in literary study 00:32:00 - Shakespeare in the 18th century 00:34:45 - Women in 18th-century literature 00:37:22 - Visualizing digitized literature, William Blake 00:40:22 - IIIF compliance and sharing images 00:43:47 - Keeping women in the digital canon, gender marking 00:51:33 - The value of building digital resources, ARC 01:03:44 - Evaluating digital contributions in the profession 01:08:09 - Closing remarks