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By Dana Wheeles on February 26, 2013
[Cross-posted at juxtasoftware.org] Every now and then I like to browse the project list at DHCommons.org, just to get an idea of what kind of work is being done in digital scholarship around the world. This really paid off recently, when I stumbled upon Digital Thoreau, an engaging and well-structured site created by a group from SUNY-Geneseo. This […]
Posted in american studies, collation, digital humanities, juxtacommons, scholarship, text, text encoding | Tagged tei, thoreau |
By Sarah Storti on February 20, 2013
A long, long time ago I wrote a blog post about how this year’s NINES Fellows were going to be working on a digital project called The Shelley-Godwin Archive. Back then we were particularly excited about the project because it was going to be a collaborative one–we needed to figure out how (or whether!) two groups […]
Posted in romanticism, scholarly projects, scholarship, text encoding | Tagged collaboration, SGA |
By Sarah Storti on October 1, 2012
Hello there, dear reader. It feels strange to be writing to you on the NINES site, instead of on the UVa Scholars’ Lab blog where I spent all of last year as a fellow in the brand-new Praxis Program. It feels particularly déjà vu-ish to be writing about collaboration, because that was pretty much all […]
Posted in scholarship, text encoding | Tagged collaboration, project management, SGA |
By Dana Wheeles on May 18, 2011
Course offerings for Rare Book School at the University of Virginia have been listed, including “Digitizing the Historical Record,” taught by NINES Director Andrew Stauffer (Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia) and Senior Advisor Bethany Nowviskie (Director of Digital Research & Scholarship for the University of Virginia Library). Other available courses include: […]
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By Dana Wheeles on July 13, 2010
It’s the last day of classes at the DHO/NINES Summer Workshop, and things are beginning to wind down. I assisted Laura Mandell in leading the XSLT class, in which we threw out a dizzying amount of material and hoped to help some projects get their XML transformations in order. Teaching an XSLT class was a […]
Posted in digital humanities, text encoding, workshop | Tagged xslt |
By Dana Wheeles on June 18, 2010
The Text Encoding Initiative, in partnership with Apex Covantage and with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has launched AccessTEI, a program for digitizing texts (whether printed or manuscript, in any language). The program provides bulk-pricing on the transcription and (structural) xml encoding of text, for those at institutions that are members of the […]
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By Dana Wheeles on September 11, 2008
As the number of projects contributing to NINES grows, more and more I find myself answering questions about structured data. Why XML? How does one choose between formats like that of the Text Encoding Initiative and other databases? These are good … Continue reading →
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