The Rochester Institute of Technology Vertically Integrated Project brings together students, faculty, librarians, and curators to create a digital edition of the William Townsend & Sons ledgers, combining archival transcription with interactive maps, multimedia, AI-generated art, and linked data. By encoding the late-19th-century Sheffield account books in XML-TEI and integrating GIS and historical datasets, the project situates bookbinding within the broader context of geo-humanities, metallurgy, and labor history. This VIP model emphasizes interdisciplinary, student-driven research and sustainable digital workflows—reshaping how “unconventional” texts are edited, presented, and published.

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