How to write to text pattern
Posted: September 14, 2016 Filed under: Computers, Textpattern Leave a comment »This document is a quick primer on using TextPattern, the Content Management System that controls my web pages. It covers the basics only.
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Log in
After I have made you an account, you should receive login information in an email. Read the rest of this entry »
Lyrics for annotation
Posted: September 13, 2016 Filed under: exercises, Teaching | Tags: a god and yet a man, fleumaticus, good medicine for sore eyen, hypothes.is, i have a gentil cok, i have a newe gardin, levedy fortune, lyric 112, lyric 115, lyric 117, lyric 188, lyric 197, lyric 77, lyric 78, lyric 8, lyrics, medicina, middle english, upon a lady Leave a comment »These are lyrics for the annotation exercises.
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Phonetic spelling exercise
Posted: September 10, 2016 Filed under: Moodle, Teaching Leave a comment »This exercise is an experiment in “phonetic” spelling, that is to say the use of orthography to capture sound.
In doing this, we are trying to get a sense for how people in previous eras might have used one spelling system to transcribe another language—e.g. use French spelling to write Middle English, or adapt Latin letters to spell Germanic languages.
This is not an exercise in the use of modern Phonetic Alphabets (e.g. IPA). If you know phonetic transcription, try to ignore that knowledge here. Read the rest of this entry »
Cædmon Citation Network – Week 14
Posted: September 2, 2016 Filed under: caedmon-citation, digital-humanities | Tags: anglo-saxon england, anglo-saxon studies, bibliographies, caedmon, citation, citation management, citation managers, citation practice, citations, digital humanities, old english, Research, research techniques, student employee, uleth, university of lethbridge, zotero Leave a comment »Hi all!
I spent this week putting information into the newly updated database. It works much faster than it did before, and is very intuitive to use. Dan mentioned that he would like to see some screenshots, so please enjoy the following images:
Here we see the front page of the database, with two text boxes, one for the Source and one for the Reference.
Options will pop up after you begin typing which makes adding sources and references super quick.
Read the rest of this entry »Cædmon Citation Network – Week 14
Posted: September 2, 2016 Filed under: caedmon-citation, digital-humanities | Tags: anglo-saxon england, anglo-saxon studies, bibliographies, caedmon, citation, citation management, citation managers, citation practice, citations, digital humanities, old english, Research, research techniques, student employee, uleth, university of lethbridge, zotero Leave a comment »Hi all!
I spent this week putting information into the newly updated database. It works much faster than it did before, and is very intuitive to use. Dan mentioned that he would like to see some screenshots, so please enjoy the following images:
Here we see the front page of the database, with two text boxes, one for the Source and one for the Reference.
Options will pop up after you begin typing which makes adding sources and references super quick.
Read the rest of this entry »But does it work in theory? Developing a generative theory for the scholarly commons
Posted: September 2, 2016 Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Tags: force11, Methodology, open access, scholarly commons working group, scholarly communication, theory Leave a comment »…It is said that a learned professor of Heidelberg forbade his students the repetition of a certain experiment.
“But,” they protested, “it has always been successful.”
“Nevertheless,” he said, “its position among experiments is absolutely untenable from an intellectual point of view.”
The boys stared.
“The thing may answer very well in practise,” said the professor, “but it is not sound in theory.”
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But does it work in theory? Developing a generative theory for the scholarly commons
Posted: September 2, 2016 Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Tags: force11, Methodology, open access, scholarly commons working group, scholarly communication, theory Leave a comment »The “Scholarly Commons Working Group”
I am part of the Scholarly Commons Working Group at Force11. The goal of this working group is to “define and incubate” a “Scholarly Commons”—something we define as being a set of “principles, best practices, interfaces and standards that should govern the multidirectional flow of scholarly objects through all phases of the research process from conception to dissemination” in any discipline.
As part of this work, we have been working on developing the actual principles that can be said to… well, this is a bit of an issue, actually—govern?, describe (?), organise (?), define (?). Let’s just say, right now, “develop a set of principles that will help in some way identify and establish the Scholarly Commons in some useful, non-trivial fashion.”
Read the rest of this entry »Cædmon Citation Network – Week 12+13
Posted: August 23, 2016 Filed under: caedmon-citation, digital-humanities | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, bibliographies, caedmon, citation, citation management, citation managers, citation practice, citations, database, digital humanities, humanities, humanities research, old english, publication patterns, publishing patterns, Research Leave a comment »Hi all!
Summer is winding to a close, and our project continues to progress. The database is working, and is currently being made faster for even easier use. Books and articles are still being collected and scanned, and I am trying to split my time between scanning sources and collecting data.
At our last meeting Dan and I went over the exact specifications for the references I am collecting. Information is sorted into four types:
Text Quotes (TQ)
Text Mentions ™
Read the rest of this entry »Cædmon Citation Network – Week 11
Posted: August 5, 2016 Filed under: caedmon-citation, digital-humanities | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, caedmon, citation, citation management, citation practice, citations, digital humanities, research techniques, uleth, university of lethbridge Leave a comment »Hi all!
I have a very short blog post this week, as the week itself was very short. I spent the last few days collecting more sources, doing some scanning, and preparing to begin data collection.
The database should be up and running this weekend, meaning data collection can officially start next week. I will see Garret on Sunday and we will be able to do some test runs on the database to make sure it is working properly. We have been discussing its functions over video conference several times throughout the week, and it seems to be coming along very well!
Next week I will be splitting my time between continuing to collect sources and beginning data collection, a suggestion made by Dan during our last meeting. Read the rest of this entry »
Cædmon Citation Network – Week 10
Posted: July 25, 2016 Filed under: caedmon-citation, digital-humanities | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, bibliographies, caedmon, citation, citation management, citation practice, citations, digital humanities, digital medievalist, humanities, humanities research, old english, Projects, publication patterns, publishing patterns, researc, Research Leave a comment »Hi all,
It is week 10 already, and I feel like I am nowhere near where I thought I would be with regards to this project. While the list of the sources we need for our data collection on Zotero are as complete as we can know at present, not everything on the list has been collected yet. I was in high spirits at the beginning of last week thinking that the collection of sources was nearly complete, however I realised later on that I had missed a good chunk of the list. It turned out that I had some filters set that were omitting a portion of the 700-ish books and articles. To make a long story short, more collection is still needed!
This will mean more inter-library loan books will need to be ordered and scanned, and more articles will need to be transferred to the GLOBUS folder. Thankfully the book scanner is back up and running again! If it holds out it should make the process painless and a good deal quicker than scanning things on the photocopier. Read the rest of this entry »
Auschwitz I and II (Birkenau): Some thoughts on a tour
Posted: July 23, 2016 Filed under: miscellaneous, Research-and-comment Leave a comment »Last week, I was in Krakow for DH 2016. Because it is so close to Auschwitz, I took a day trip to visit the camp.
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Mixed feelings about “touring” a concentration camp
I had very mixed feelings about the whole idea. On the one hand, it seems almost an obligation. As I’ve written of the Diary of Anne Frank: “the enormity of Nazi crimes requires documentation. We want and need first-person accounts of what happened to keep reminding us that it in fact did happen” (54). Read the rest of this entry »
Cædmon Citation Network – Mini Update (Week 9)
Posted: July 22, 2016 Filed under: caedmon-citation, digital-humanities | Tags: anglo-saxon england, book scanning, caedmon, citation, digital humanities, libraries, scanners, technology, uleth, university of lethbridge Leave a comment »Hi all!
Just thought I would post a short update for you, as I was meant to have started reading and collecting data by this point. Unfortunately my efforts have been sabotaged by the library’s book scanner which has been refusing to work properly for me.
At the beginning of the week it worked beautifully for two batches of scanning, however on the third batch it kept kicking me out and deleting my work, saying that it did not have enough memory. The library staff was quick to look at it, but as the “book scanner expert” was not available that day, I had to wait for it to be fixed.
I busied myself with other work (it turns out that I was not quite finished collecting sources, there was a sizeable chunk that had escaped my notice!), and came back this morning with even more books to scan, but a new issue has arisen:
Read the rest of this entry »Cædmon Citation Network – Week 9
Posted: July 18, 2016 Filed under: caedmon-citation, digital-humanities | Tags: anglo-saxon england, anglo-saxon studies, blogging, caedmon, citation, citation management, citation practice, citations, database, digital humanities, humanities, humanities research, old english, publication patterns, publishing patterns, Research, student blogs Leave a comment »Hi all!
I finally get to start reading this week!!! While I am still not 100% complete in my sourcing of all the books and articles, it is looking as though I will definitely be able to start reading by Wednesday if not earlier.
I also have a bunch of books from inter-library loans that I need to scan portions of. That will be part of my job today.
The database will be ready this week as well. Garret says that there will be a few improvements that he will want to make, but I will be able to start using it this week. Read the rest of this entry »
Cædmon Citation Network – Week 8
Posted: July 11, 2016 Filed under: caedmon-citation, digital-humanities | Tags: anglo-saxon england, anglo-saxon studies, bibliographies, blog, caedmon, citation management, citation practice, citations, dh, digital humanities, old english, publication patterns, publishing patterns, university of lethbridge, zotero Leave a comment »Hello!
Just a quick blog post this morning to give you an update of what’s to come this week:
I am continuing to gather all of the articles/books needed for the project, and hope to complete the search this week. There may be a few inter-library loans that we will be waiting on, but I would like everything else to be ready to go!
Not all the articles will be accessible on GLOBUS right away, as the transfers do not work on the university network and I am currently living without internet at my apartment (The horror! The horror!). I will be transferring them when I can, as free wi-fi will allow. Read the rest of this entry »
But does it work in theory II
Posted: September 3, 2016 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Research-and-comment, research-communication | Leave a comment »(A very inside baseball posting. Probably not of interest to anybody but me and a couple of people on the committee I refer to below).
Yesterday, I published some principles and rules that I thought might govern a “Scholarly Commons,” the topic of a Helmsley-funded Force11 Working Group that I am a part of.
Here they are again: