Eleanor Webb
PhD Candidate, History
Eleanor Webb is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History. She is currently working, along with Prof. Emily Steiner and Emma Dyson, to produce digital editions of two fifteenth-century genealogical rolls held at the Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E201) and Penn’s Kislak Center (UPenn Ms. 1066). These genealogical rolls – which are just two of dozens of surviving examples – are highly complex documents that provoke a number of specific challenges for digitization. In addition to producing historical annotations for the rolls, Eleanor will work hands on with Digital Mappa to improve the accessibility and navigational quality of the digitized editions. She hopes her work will contribute to research into genealogical rolls, and to the digitization of complex manuscript media more broadly.
