Constructing the Sacred (Stanford University Press, 2020)
The long-lived burial site of Saqqara, Egypt, has been studied for more than a century. But the site we visit today is a palimpsest, the result of thousands of years of change, both architectural and environmental. Elaine A. Sullivan uses 3D technologies to peel away the layers of history at the site, revealing how changes to sight lines, skylines, and vistas at different periods of Saqqara’s millennia-long use influenced sacred ceremonies and ritual meaning at the necropolis.
I performed full service end-to-end production for this project built in Scalar. I did a cleanup of superfluous code in the pages, a common issue when text is pasted into the platform from Word. I recruited an excellent copyeditor both experienced with the subject and also technically proficient to work directly in Scalar using its editorial layer. i worked with the Scalar developers to create a re-usable script for renumbering notes when we learned we wold need to add in several new notes. My connection with the Scalar developers is an advantage when working on projects built in this scholar-favorite platform.
A unique feature of this project is its linkages to the Stanford Digital Repository as a source for media and reusable geodata and 3d object files. I worked with the author and the library’s repository team to structure, describe, and accession more than a thousand files that serve this publication and allow future researchers to build on the award-winning work of this author.
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