Tag: Digital Humanities
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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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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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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…
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Cross-Hop!
Though its preliminary successes got a warm reception at the CSECS conference last October on an intimate DH panel (with Alison Muri, coordinator of the Grub Street Project), the Cross-Hopkins Diary Project is still very much a hatchling. I dove into TEI encoding with zero prior knowledge, and have really been learning as I go.…
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THATCamp@QueensU?
Around this time two years ago, I was gearing up with my good friend Ashley Williamson to give a presentation about teapots at Inquiry@Queen’s, an undergraduate research conference. This was my first foray into truly independent research, apart from any assignment or academic guidance. It was a real personal success. I discovered very interesting things…