About

The David Jones Digital Archive (DJDA) is a constellation of digitized collections of material (letters, poetic manuscripts, visual art) taken from various archival deposits of the British poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974). Each has its own funding scheme and set of institutional partners, but all are facilitated, and in some cases partly funded by, the David Jones Research Center. With a few exceptions, the DJDA is hosted on the Cambridge Digital Library, a large public-access database and website maintained by Cambridge Digital Humanities under the auspices of Cambridge University Library. A core editorial team, largely trained in the TEI training workshops we have organized with Cambridge Digital Humanities, meets regularly to discuss ongoing work with transcription and encoding of the digitized collections described in these pages. With sufficient funding and sponsorship, we hope in future to have our own central hub that will display more detailed versions of all these editions and their interrelationships in one place.

If you’d like to learn more about the archive or would like to help with transcription or encoding as part of the editorial team, write to us at: djresearch@wau.edu

Project coordinators:

Dr. Thomas Berenato (University of Virginia) — Co-Director

Dr. Anna Svendsen (Franciscan University of Steubenville) — Co-Director

TIMELINE

2018 — Origins

$20,000 from private donor

2020 — Kettle’s Yard Collection (Kettle’s Yard Museum) and Book of Balaam’s Ass (National Library of Wales) digitized

$14,000 from Cambridge Humanities Research Grant Scheme (Cambridge University and David Jones Research Center)

$7,000 from SPIRE Grant (University of Bergen, Norway)

2022–2023 — Papers of Jones and René Hague digitized (University of Toronto)

2023–2024 — Letters of Jones to Vernon Watkins digitized

$2,500 from Institute of Liberal Arts Minor Grant (Boston College)

$10,000 from Academic Technology Innovation Grant (Boston College)

2024–2025 — Painted Inscriptions of David Jones digitized (National Library of Wales)

£23,000 from Open Societal Challenges Grant (The Open University)