The language of history
Articulating who we have been to influence who we can become
History happened. How it's understood depends entirely on how it gets recorded.
"The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless."
— E.H. Carr, What is History?
Past expressions
The document as it was, not as it was remembered
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Joseph Smith Papers, assistant editor
Served as Assistant Editor at Church Historian's Press, performing documentary editing, substantive editing, copy editing, and proofreading on both online and letterpress editions of historical documents. The work demanded the full range of editorial discipline, from high-level structural decisions about how a document should be presented, down to the precise rendering of individual words against a primary source.
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XML transcription editing
Transcribed and edited historical documents from print to digital using XML encoding, ensuring that every element of the original source was accurately represented in its online form. The work sat at the intersection of editorial precision and technical execution, where a misplaced tag carried the same weight as a misread word.