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Products

In addition to developing an archive of primary and related print culture materials, our project will result in three different types of products: six print publications or MLA CSE-approved volumes; an electronic scholarly edition that expands the print version but is also searchable and supplemented by multimedia features; and, finally, a selection of Category "A" texts from both the electronic edition and the archive that will be deposited in a larger digital library collection at the University of Virginia.

- The print volumes will contain a selection of the most compelling works by Brown (for further scholarly use); this selection will include only texts in Category "A" of attribution. The print volumes will come with an MLA CSE-conformant scholarly apparatus and will be published by Kent State University Press.

- The electronic scholarly edition will include not only the texts in the print edition but all Category "A" texts. Its architecture and features will emerge from extensive planning and experimentation over the twelve-year span of our project. The texts in this edition will also receive full scholarly editorial treatment relative to the principles and procedures currently specified by the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions (CSE) for electronic editions. The electronic edition will be fully searchable, integrated with Kent State's planned digital version of the Bicentennial Edition of Brown's novels, and usable by scholars in a variety of ways that exceed those currently in place at the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.

- The texts we publish electronically and provide the University of Virginia Library will be a subset of the electronic scholarly edition aimed specifically to support the Early American Fiction Collection's interests in Brown's "fiction," e.g., short stories, historical fiction, etc., and related materials. The Electronic Text Center version of our texts, with a less developed markup and less elaborate apparatus than the future electronic scholarly edition, will therefore be fully available to the public after the print edition is published, and it will remain available in perpetuity. In terms of chronological development, these texts will follow the print scholarly edition but precede, as texts are verified by the Editorial Board, the fully treated electronic version of the edition.

During all three phases of the project, the working website will reside on a dedicated server at the University of Central Florida, and the electronic edition will be generated there, in collaboration not only among the various editors and contributors affiliated with the project, but also with our colleagues at Virginia (IATH and the Electronic Text Center) and with scholars at the Kent State University's Institute for Bibliography and Editing (IBE). Kent State University Press's Bicentennial Edition of Brown's novels and related works emerged from IBE and will be digitized there. Our goal is to develop a common interface with Kent State digital initiatives for the Bicentennial Edition and, ultimately, an electronic scholarly edition of all of Brown's work.