Case Study: Legacy Poetry Database for a University Press

Our client aimed to supplement two successful print publications with websites that would reach a far wider audience than had access to the paper volumes. One of them was a long the trusted source for information on anthologized poems, which now serves researchers, librarians, writers of verse, students, teachers, and poetry lovers all over the globe with its highly cross-linked, interactive site.

Content Imperative

OBS designed, built, and hosted the first versions of this website in the 1990s.

The site features innovative business models; regular data updates made by the Press’s authors and editors; and administrative interfaces that help our client manage subscriptions, distribute usage reports, and otherwise serve its worldwide reference market.

OBS’s Role

  • Creative consult
  • Business model development
  • Engineering legacy, proprietary, and open source code
  • Production management
  • Information design
  • Programming
  • Managed hosting  

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