Monday, February 22, 2016

Thank You

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Back in the day, Joel Spolsky had a very influential tech blog, and one of the pieces he wrote described the kind of software developer he l...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

DH Data Talk

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Last night I was on a panel organized by Duke Libraries' Digital Scholarship group. The panelists each gave some brief remarks and the...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Outside the tent

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Yesterday was a bad day. I’m chasing a messed-up software problem whose main symptom is the application consuming all available memory and t...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Missing DH

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I'm watching the tweets from #dh2013 starting to roll in and feeling kind of sad (and, let's be honest, left out) not to be there. ...
Wednesday, February 06, 2013

First Contact

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It seems like I've had many versions of this conversation in the last few months, as new projects begin to ramp up: Client : I want t...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

You did _what_? Form-based XML editing

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My most recent project has been building an editing system for APIS (the Advanced Papyrological Information System—I know, I know) data as p...
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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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