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Volunteer for the 2017 Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop!
What is the Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop & How Does it Work? Founded in 2013, the Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop is a biannual, online, interdisciplinary workshop for individuals working on feminist-oriented research projects. The workshop is sponsored by HASTAC and James Madison University’s School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication. Throughout the workshop, participants create and set in motion their own…
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Importance of markup Languages. How to use
People are excited by reading attractive parts of a book or an article. Some pieces might be very important. Some articles are too long or not easy to understand all pieces firstly. Most of the time it is not necessary to read entire a blog or a document. We markup some elements which they are more…
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Making the Humanities Digital
Thoughts on the Digital Humanities Impact on Academia When fundamental assumptions change, the product should change as well. The new medium both adds and removes constraints, fundamentally changing the nature of the ‘optimal’ product being delivered. A classic example is how the newspaper is slowly being reworked to take advantage of the internet and remove…
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Encoding Emily Dickinson
A piece of writing that I think is important is Emily Dickinson’s “fascicles,” a term used by her editor Mabel Loomis Todd to describe her 40, hand-sewn booklets of poetry. If I were to encode the 800+ poems that comprise the “fascicles,” I would begin by marking up the stanzas and lines, as well as the marginalia. What…
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Markup as a Constitutive Element of Interpretation
Usually when I think of markup, I think of annotations in text, including highlighting sentences, taking notes, underlining words, and starring passages. Up until this week, I never really questioned the markup process that occurs in editing and publishing. Authors, editors, publishers, and printers all seem to have varying levels of control over…
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What you do not want lost in the fire
Question: The library is burning to the ground, and you have time to save one thing: a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or the book or manuscript digitally transcribed (that is, typed into a computer file or files). Which one would you save and why? Response:…
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Practicum #1: Introduction to HASTAC and Digital Humanities
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) is an online community of digital humanists whose goal is to continue the enriching and innovative field of humanities on to a collaborative online environment. The revolution of the internet and the access of information at our finger tips has changed so much including ways to…
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XML The Bill of Rights
One of the most important historical documents is the original Bill of Rights, its amendments provide American citizens their freedoms and liberties. For this document to be marked up from its original ink and paper to an XML file, multiple codes would need to be used. Due to the document being aged and weathered special notice to the…
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The American Prison Writing Project
The American Prison Writing Project (http://apw.dhinitiative.org/) is an ongoing process to build the “first fully searchable prison-writing archive”. The choice to create an archive of writing by prisoners rather than average citizens was not an arbitrary one, the goal of the project is to amass real, first-hand witnesses to life inside of the United States…
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Musings on the News and on Work
I’m unable to stop reading the news. I told myself a couple of weeks ago that I’d like to try reading more headlines and fewer articles, and I’ve succeeded to some degree, but that’s mostly because Black Twitter is more knowledgeable about what’s going in the American political sphere than some mainstream media outlets are.…