Fixing a problem with broken stylesheets in OJS 2.3.6
Posted: June 18, 2012 Filed under: Applications, Digital Humanities, OJS, Research, Scholarly publishing | Tags: html, OJS, Open Journal Systems, proofing, scholarly publishing, Tips, workflow Leave a comment »In recent days, we have encountered a problem at Digital Studies/Le champ numérique that has resulted in problems with the display of a number of our articles.
The symptom is that the article breadcrumb and menu bar appear below rather than beside the right navigation bar, as illustrated below.

Screen shot showing layout problem. Article on left shows the broken style; article on the right has had the problem corrected.
After some investigation, we narrowed the problem down to an issue with how OJS handles HTML-encoded articles. Read the rest of this entry »
Disciplinary impact and technological obsolescence in digital medieval studies
Posted: December 15, 2006 Filed under: Digital Humanities, Essays, Preprints and Offprints, Research | Tags: digital humanities, editorial studies, history, html, internet, Research, sgml, sustainability, xml Leave a comment »First posted December 15, 2006 http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/Research/disciplinary-impact-and-technological-obsolescence-in-digital-medieval-studies. Published in The Blackwell Companion to the Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schriebman and Ray Siemens. 2007.
In May 2004, I attended a lecture by Elizabeth Solopova at a workshop at the University of Calgary on the past and present of digital editions of medieval works1. The lecture looked at various approaches to the digitisation of medieval literary texts and discussed a representative sample of the most significant digital editions of English medieval works then available: the Wife of Bath’s Prologue from the Canterbury Tales Project (Robinson and Blake 1996), Murray McGillivray’s Book of the Duchess (McGillivray 1997), Kevin Kiernan’s Electronic Beowulf (Kiernan 1999), and the first volume of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (Adams et al. 2000). Solopova herself is an experienced digital scholar and the editions she was discussing had been produced by several of the most prominent digital editors then active. The result was a master class in humanities computing: an in-depth look at mark-up, imaging, navigation and interface design, and editorial practice in four exemplary editions.