A brief history of Manifold
2012
In 2012, the CUNY Graduate Center’s Digital Scholarship Lab collaborated with the University of Minnesota Press and Cast Iron Coding to produce an interactive web edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities at dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu. The open-source platform presented the volume in an attractive, responsive design and allowed readers to comment and highlight passages of interest.
2015
In 2015, based partly on the success and volume of engagement of the Debates site, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the University of Minnesota Press and the CUNY Graduate Center a three-year, $732,000 grant to create an abstracted version of the Debates platform.
2017 — 2018
Minnesota and the Graduate Center, in partnership with development agency Cast Iron Coding, released the beta version of Manifold in April 2017 and the version 1.0 release candidate in April 2018.
2018
In April 2018, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the University of Minnesota Press and the CUNY Graduate Center a two-year grant of $789,000 to support a second phase of development for the Manifold platform.
2020
The Manifold code repository on Github has received over two thousand commits. It has been favorited almost one hundred times.
Credits
Manifold is a collaboration between the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding, and each group brings a unique perspective to the project: publishing, scholarship, and technology. Many people have contributed to Manifold since our project began in 2015.
Cast Iron Coding
- Zach Davis
- Lael Tyler
- Alexa Gray
- Dana Johnson
- Lucas Thurston
- Jen Wardwell
- Blake Mason
- Clark Burns
- Connor Christensen
- Gabe Blair
- Naomi Rubin
City University of New York Graduate Center
- Matthew K. Gold
- Jojo Karlin
- Krystyna Michael
- Robin Miller
- Jeff Binder
University of Minnesota Press
- Doug Armato
- Susan Doerr
- Terence Smyre
- Eric Lundgren
- Daniel Ochsner
- Danielle Kasprzak
- Jason Weidemann
University of Washingon
- Elliot Stevens
- Hadi Rangin
- Zaijen A. Santos
- Sasha Thomas
- Ava Cole
