Samantha MacFarlane worked as a research assistant on the DVPP from 2012 to 2014. She assisted with indexing and scanning poems from The Penny Magazine, All the Year Round, and Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal; helped with identifying authors of unsigned poems in All the Year Round; and completed TEI encoding on selected poems. She received her PhD in English, specializing
in Victorian poetry, from the University of Victoria in 2019. She is now Co-Editor
in Chief of the journal KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies and Special Projects Administrative Officer at the University of Victoria Libraries.
Roles played in the project: metadata indexer, markup editor, transcriber/encoder,
editor/proofer.