Brandon Taylor

Digital Projects

My digital work is editorial at its core. I build and maintain open-access editions of early modern texts, and I treat this work as scholarship in its own right—not a supplement to writing, but a form of it.

The Chamberlain Letters

I am the founding editor of The Chamberlain Letters, a TEI-based digital edition of the correspondence of John Chamberlain. Working from McClure’s 1939 edition, the project encodes and annotates over 240 letters for open access. It also serves as a teaching resource—an editorial lab where students contribute to a genuine scholarly project.

TEI Workflows and Editorial Pedagogy

To support contributors, I have developed TEI templates, encoding guides, and version control workflows. The goal is to make the editorial process transparent and teachable—something students can enter, learn from, and contribute to in a meaningful way.

GitHub and Netlify Deployment

The project is managed through GitHub and deployed via Netlify. The architecture is static and lightweight by design—easy to maintain, and built without a CMS or backend dependencies.