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[Clicca qui per leggere in Italiano]<\/a><\/p>\n

When I wrote the \u201cRisk Management Plan\u201d of my project, I did not think of including \u201cWorld Pandemic\u201d as a possible risk. Well… my fault. But now that we all are in the middle of Covid-19 Pandemic, which is not exactly what you\u2019re hoping for when you are given your once-in-a-life opportunity to travel around the world to do research and meet people, I had to reschedule my research plans. Entirely.
\nWe still have no idea of what to expect for the future, but after 60 days closed in my house I made a decision. After a first period of hope, in which I thought that Governments would have been able to deal with it and I just had to wait and let it go, and a second period made of stress and black days in which I was getting more and more depressed at the idea that I was wasting THE Opportunity that I was given in my life, I tried to focus and remember one of my motto: fatto \u00e8 meglio che perfetto<\/strong><\/span> (better done than perfect, no rhyme in English, sorry).
\nSo although I am not working as I should and as I would like, I am trying to go on and I am now working on my Database.
\nI am buying all first Italian editions of Woolf\u2019s books I find on eBay; I\u2019m taking pictures of them; I\u2019m collecting the metadata I will need for my Database; and I\u2019m asking friends who own the books I don\u2019t find to take pictures for me and send me the info they\u2019ve got. This reminded me of the meeting I had with Pip Wilcox<\/a>, who led the University of Oxford\u2019s Centre for Digital Scholarship and collaborates as DH advisor with the University of Reading. I discussed the design and structure of my Database with her and she encouraged me and gave me useful advice such as: ask for help<\/strong><\/span>. This is always a good advice, but with DH I think it is simply impossible to work on your own. Together we decided to create the figure of \u2018Contributors<\/strong><\/span>\u2019 for my Database. Students, scholars, readers who want to take part in the \u2018making of\u2019 this big DB will have their role \u2013 not a big one, but still a role, which has been taken in consideration from the very design of the Database.
\nThis idea might save part of my project now, because, not being able to travel around Italy and visit libraries, all I can do is ask for your help.
\nIf you wrote anything on Woolf (scholarly articles, books, reviews\u2026), if you are a collector of Woolf\u2019s works, or if you would like to just collaborate, you might really be of great help with a little effort! So, if you are interested in being part of this, do write me<\/a>, and I will explain how you can help.<\/p>\n