Alex Gil is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University. Melina Moe is Curator of Literature at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Jenna Schoen is a Lecturer in Columbia University’s Department of English and Comparative Literature. Dennis Tenen is Associate Professor of English in Columbia University’s Department of English and Comparative Literature. John Tofanelli is the Librarian for British and American History and Literature. This project was a collaboration among the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Digital Scholarship, Humanities & History Librarians, and the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Wax is a minimal computing (minicomp) project led by Marii Nyröp. The project is currently maintained by Marii Nyröp at New York University and Alex Gil at Columbia University Libraries. It uses open source libraries and frameworks including Jekyll, IIIF, OpenSeaDragon, Rake, and ElasticLunr. Wax builds upon work by Peter Binkley, David Newbury, and others.
We welcome and encourage contributors and maintainers. Please get in touch, or fork the project on GitHub. If you encounter any issue with the software, please create an issue on our repository or post a comment on Gitter.
For more on working with Wax, visit our documentation wiki.