"We Think Them Worthy": A Digital Collection of Poetry from New York's Nineteenth-Century Black Periodicals

ABSTRACT:The essays in this forum explore the potentials and pitfalls of computational approaches to periodical studies. Moving beyond the medium of digitization, our "Computational Periodicals" forum celebrates the computational opportunities of technical processes like term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), digital curation tools such as Omeka, and the metadata resources of repositories like Proquest. The introductory essay to this forum highlights important questions guiding the forum by inviting our reflection on the ethical implications for periodical research in the digital age.