Mark Twain Project
nA new dimension of CDL’s scholarly publishing initiatives
nNew tools for textual criticism and analysis
nA prototype for responsible and sustainable digital critical editions
nA node of intersection between technology and the humanities
The Mark Twain Project, which I intend to focus on in this talk, is eScholarship’s latest venture into the digital academic publishing world.  In the broadest sense, this project promises an expansion of the critical edition as a scholarly tool, the development of a sustainable publishing model for digital scholarly editions, and a node of intersection between technology and often technologically underrepresented disciplines within the humanities.  I will discuss each of these points in finer detail in the course of this talk.  But first, a little back ground [switch to next slide] on our scholarly publishing initiatives thus far….