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This is a version of a paper I presented at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds on July 3, 2018, in the session “The Origins, Effects, and Memory of Caroline Minuscule, II” sponsored by the Network for the Study of Caroline Minuscule.
Continue reading “Reading and Writing Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania LJS 101, c. 850–1100”
For the #madememedieval hashtag currently going around Twitter, here’s the story of how I became a medievalist (although I didn’t realize it until much later). This is part of the Preface to Reactions Medieval/Modern, the catalog for the exhibit I curated at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in Fall 2016.
Continue reading “Reaction, a Mémoire”
This talk was presented as part of a panel at the Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University, March 16-17 2017: ARC Panel: Access, Data, and Collaboration in the Global Digital Humanities
Continue reading “Hosting the Digital Rāmamālā Library at Penn, or, thinking about open licenses for non-Western digitized manuscripts”
My last post was an announcement that I’d posted the University of Pennsylvania’s Schoenberg Collection manuscripts on Google Drive as PDF files, along with details on how I did it. This is a follow-up to announce that I’ve since added PDF files for UPenn’s Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript collection, AND for the Walters Art Museum manuscripts (which are available for download through The Digital Walters).
Continue reading “Manuscript PDFs: Update”
I’m not dead! I’m just really bad when it comes to blogging. I’m better at Facebook, and somewhat better at Twitter (and Twitter), and I do my best to update Tumblr.
Continue reading “It’s been a while since I rapped at ya”
I presented my collaborative project on visualizing collation at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, last week, and it was really well received. Also last week I discovered the Screen Recording function in QuickTime on my Mac. So, I thought it might be interesting to re-present the Kalamazoo talk in my office and record it so people who weren’t able to make the talk could still see what we are up to. I think this is longer than the original presentation – 23 minutes! – so feel free to skip around if it gets boring. Also there is no editing, so um ah um sorry about that. (Watch out for a noise at 18:16, I think my hand brushed the microphone, it’s unnerving if you’re not expecting it)
Continue reading “Disbinding Some Manuscripts, and Rebinding Some Others (presented at ICMS, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2014)”Today was the Day of Digital Humanities 2014, and I spent it blogging on the DayofDH main site. My day was spent in a seminar on medieval manuscripts, which as it turns out is a really fitting way to spend this day.
The individual posts:
Last week I figured out how to batch-download MODS records from the NYPL Digital Collections API (http://api.repo.nypl.org/) using my limited set of technical skills, so I thought I would share my process here.
Continue reading “How to get MODS using the NYPL Digital Collections API”A: You don’t! But you can provide a substantial introduction to the concept of the TEI, and explain how it functions.
On June 4 I participated in PhillyDH@Penn, a day of workshops and unconference sessions sponsored by PhillyDH and held in my own beloved Van Pelt-Dietrich Library on the University of Pennsylvania campus. I was sick, so I wasn’t able to participate fully, but I was able to lead a one-hour Introduction to TEI. I aimed it at absolute beginners, with the intention to a) Give the audience an idea of what TEI is and what it’s for (to help them answer the question, Is TEI really what I need?) and b) explain enough about the TEI so they will know a bit of something walking into their first “real” (multi-hour, hands-on) TEI workshop. I got a lot of good feedback, so hopefully it did its job. And I do hope to have the opportunity to follow this up with more substantial workshops.
Slides (in PDF format) are posted here.
EDIT: Need to add that these slides owe a ton to James Cummings, with whom I have taught TEI and to whom I owe much of what I know about it!
I have a new job! As of April 1, I am the Curator, Digital Research Services, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Special Collections Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Now say that five times fast.
In this role, I’m responsible for the digital initiatives coming out of SIMS. I’m also a curator for the Schoenberg Manuscript collection (as are all SIMS staffers in the SCC), and I manage the Vitale Special Collections Digital Media Lab (Vitale 2). It’s also clear that I will have some broad role in the digital humanities at UPenn, although that part of the job isn’t so clear to me yet. I’m the inaugural DRS Curator, so there is still a lot to be worked out although after three weeks on the job, I’m feeling really confident that things are under control.
I report to Will Noel, Director of the SCC and Director of SIMS. Will may be best known as the Project Director for the Archimedes Palimpsest Project at the Walters Art Museum. Will is awesome, and I’m thrilled to be working for him. I’m also thrilled to be working at the University of Pennsylvania, in a beautiful brand new space, in the great city of Philadelphia.
I plan to blog more in this new position, so keep your eyes here and on the MESA blog.