Author: maya
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Under construction
After ten years of sweet slumber, this blog is stretching awake. Next up, I’ll be cutting together a short textual montage of what I’ve been thinking about over the last decade and a teaser trailer of what I’m up to next.
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Conference! Legal Texts and the New Philology
Dear readers! Allow me to introduce you to the conference I am co-organizing with Faculty of Law Professor Simon Stern. Consider this a sneak preview before your inbox is bombarded by the relevant listservs. The conference title is “Legal Texts and the New Philology.” Its focus is on an exciting topic, and one that has…
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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems–the digital object
After a bit of a search-around for a digital edition framework to help me mount the W. D. Jordan Special Collections copy of Lewis Carroll’s Phantasmagoria and Other Poems online, I came across this javascript application that mimics the functionality of a book. I customized the app, loaded in our images, altered the landing page…
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Digital Edition Framework or Boilerplate?
I’m working with Emily Murphy (who organized THATCamp Queensu 2013 with me) to image, transcribe, encode, and provide annotations for a Queen’s University Special Collections copy of the first edition of Lewis Carroll’s Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (check out this edition of the text, or the Gutenberg.org edition, which are in the public domain). It’s…
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Free Queen’s Workshop
This past Wednesday at the Calvin Park Branch of the KFPL, my good friend Elias Da Silva-Powell (@edspowell) and I spoke about social media as part of the workshop series Free Queen’s. We had a great turn-out, possibly thanks in part to an article about the event in the local paper. In the spirit of…
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THATCamp QueensU 2013–a success!
What a great day. Despite the heavy snowstorm– –we had a great turnout. Participants from Toronto and London weren’t able to make it because the 401 highway was treacherous, but our cozy unconference of about 30 participants was fun, exciting, and productive. Here’s a quick shot from one of the sessions, led by Queen’s University…
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Do not adjust your terminal
I’ve decided to dive in and join the throngs of people who are doing a Year of Code. I’ve got 42 points racked up on Codecademy (only one mini-course in; here’s my profile!), and I’m looking forward to the course “Digital Humanities Databases” at DHSI, which starts on Monday in beautiful Victoria, BC. There are…
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For the summer reading list
With two exams in the next two days (Restoration literature and Statistics!), I really don’t have time to be trolling blogs. But A&L Daily, which is one of my faves, linked to a review of Terry Eagleton’s new book, The Event of Literature (not yet released). I love Terry Eagleton, and his Literary Theory: an…
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Serendipity
The word “Serendipity” is one of only a handful of words whose etymologies are clearly documented. Inspired by the tale written by Voltaire, Horace Walpole wrote to Horace Mann in 1754 that he formed the word from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes “were always making discoveries, by accidents and…
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Bootstrapping DH
What a brilliant talk from Dr. Melissa Terras from the Centre for Digital Humanities of University College London: Dr. Melissa Terras: The Vision After the Sermon She offers a great list for those who are interested in setting up a hub for digital humanities: Eat your own dog food – (this includes using best practices…