The PI and the postdoc developed a data model in accordance with Linked Open Data (LOD) principles that formed the backbone of the project database. All team members participated in populating the database; in total, 1,804 names of editors and 1,705 titles of periodicals in 26 European languages were entered. At the end of the project, all project data were transferred to the freely accessible collaboratively edited knowledge base Wikidata. In addition, the team collaborated with developers to build a Wikidata-powered digital storytelling app that plots the data on a map and timeline and presents the data as visually compelling narratives accessible to the wider public.
The PI and the PhD students developed their own subprojects based on the broad thematic lines set out in the original project proposal, focusing on the impact of women editors on particular aspects of modern European societies (including salon culture, deliberative democracy, fashion, and women’s rights). Together, they covered periodicals in Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. An international conference on European women editors in 2019 brought together a wealth of additional perspectives on, for instance, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Slovenian women editors. A special issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies with 11 articles and an introduction by the team appeared in the summer of 2021. In addition, the team regularly published articles in scholarly journals, contributed blog posts to the project website, and spoke about the project on the radio. The four PhD students all successfully defended their doctoral dissertations in 2020; one PhD student secured a contract with an academic publisher for the pubication of her dissertation as a monograph.
The PI is the founding editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed open-access Journal of European Periodical Studies, which was launched in 2016 as one of the objectives of the project, and is now an established voice in the field of periodical studies.
