Software designer Erik Mueller-Harder is visiting this week to help to build the system for digitally navigating the manuscripts of The Lord of the Rings. Here Erik collaborates with Ed and Brendan from Library IT to complete phase 2 of 7 in this ambitious project. We are calling the system Anduin in honor of the great river of Wilderland. The manuscripts represent a river of sub-creativity that flowed out of Tolkien over many years. Researchers who visit Marquette will be able to follow the main current or investigate side channels and eddies. Overall, a vast improvement over the old way of providing access to the collection.
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Software designer Erik Mueller-Harder is visiting this week to help to build the system for digitally navigating the manuscripts of The Lord of the Rings. Here Erik collaborates with Ed and Brendan from Library IT to complete phase 2 of 7 in this ambitious project. We are calling the system Anduin in honor of the great river of Wilderland. The manuscripts represent a river of sub-creativity that flowed out of Tolkien over many years. Researchers who visit Marquette will be able to follow the main current or investigate side channels and eddies. Overall, a vast improvement over the old way of providing access to the collection.
