Tuesday, March 20, 2012

How to Apologize

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The latest regrettable spasm of sexism in the programming world played out this afternoon, as a company called Sqoot's announcement of a...
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Sunday, March 04, 2012

A spot of mansplaining

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This is bit of rambling, responding to Bethany Nowviskie's terrific " Don't circle the wagons ", itself a response to Miri...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

TEI in other formats; part the second: Theory

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In my first post on this subject, I poked a bit at how one might represent TEI in HTML without discarding the text model from the TEI docum...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

TEI in other formats; part the first: HTML

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There has been a fair amount of discussion of late about TEI either having a standard HTML5 representation or even moving entirely to an HTM...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Humanities Data Curation

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Last Thursday, I attended the excellent Humanities Data Curation Summit , organized by Allen Renear, Trevor Muñoz, Katherine L. Walter, and ...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Interfaces and Models

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In my last post , I argued that TEI is a text modelling language, and in the prior post , I discussed a frequently-expressed request for TEI...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

TEI is a text modelling language

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I'm teaching a TEI class this weekend, so I've been pondering it a bit. I've come to the conclusion that calling what we do wi...
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Thursday, January 06, 2011

I Will Never NOT EVER Type an Angle Bracket (or IWNNETAAB for short)

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From time to time, I hear an argument that goes something like this: "Our users won't deal with angle brackets, therefore we can...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

DH Tea Leaves

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From reading my (possibly) representative sample of DH proposals, I'd say the main theme of the conference will not be "Big Tent D...
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Sunday, December 05, 2010

That Bug Bit Me

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"I had this problem and I fixed it" stories are boring to anyone except those intimately concerned with the problem, so I'm no...
Monday, May 10, 2010

#alt-ac Careers: Digital Humanities Developer

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(part 1 of a series) I've been a digital humanities developer, that is, someone who writes code, does interface and system design, and r...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Addenda et Corrigenda

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The proceedings of the 2009 Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, at which I was a panelist were recen...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Making a new Numbers Server for papyri.info

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[UPDATE: added relationships diagram] One of the components of papyri.info (a fairly well-hidden one) is a service that provides lookups of...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

#APA2010

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In between shortening my lifespan by doing a crazy yardwork project this week, I've been following with interest the tweets from #MLA09 ...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Converting APIS

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On Monday, I finished converting the APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) intake files to EpiDoc XML. I thought I'd write it...