News
Fall business meeting
Members of DHIB convened on Monday, November 17th to review proposals for governance, membership categories, and funding opportunities for the coming year. Details and applications to follow on the DHIB wiki.
Inaugural symposium
The College of Arts and Sciences of the University at Buffalo celebrated the launching of its Digital Humanities Initiative with an inaugural symposium on Friday September 19th, 2008 at the Center for the Arts. The keynote address was delivered by Katherine Hayles. The afternoon seminar and discussion were led by Gregory Crane (background reading: "ePhilology: when the books talk to their readers") and Stephen Ramsay (background reading: Book chapter entitled "Algorithmic Criticism" and blog post based on MLA/2006 talk). The roundtable discussion following Kate Hayles' keynote address was led by Debra Burhans and Dave Pape. The video stream is available here. (You'll need to download the RealPlayer to be able to watch.) Click here to watch the PowerPoint slides which were shown during the reception.
Training workshops
- January 8-10 2008: TEI/XML Workshop
Work-in-progress presentations
Humanities Data: Tools for Annotation and Access (April 1st, 3:30-5:00, 930 Clemens Hall)- Carolyn O'Meara, Department of Linguistics: "Introducing the Northeastern North American Indigenous Languages Archive"
The Northeastern North American Indigenous Languages Archive (NNAILA) is a new digital language archive housed at the University at Buffalo within the University Library system. NNAILA is currently in its pilot phase, with a focus on digitizing materials from Onondaga, an Iroquoian language spoken in parts of central New York and in the area near Brantford, Ontario. The archive's primary goals are to preserve recordings of indigenous languages of Northeastern America and to make the data in those recordings accessible to the academic community and to the indigenous communities whose languages are represented in the archive's collections. In order to facilitate access to the archive’s resources by Onondaga community members, especially language teachers and their students, we are developing a web-based toolkit which will allow users to construct and annotate personal digital collections of materials from the archive. - Jeff Good, Department of Linguistics: "Managing contested relationships in the Rosetta Project database using RDF"
- Justin S. Leitgeb, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures: "TEI Rails: A Collaborative, Web-Based System for Preparing and Presenting XML Documents in the Humanities"
TEI Rails is a web-based content management system for documents encoded in [http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml TEI]. The program, released as Free Software under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL], includes advanced features for XML-based content collaboration and annotation. This presentation will provide an overview of the TEI Rails system and demonstrate some of its advanced features including support for document versioning, cloning, and semi-automated annotation of content.
- Ronan Crowley, Department of English. “to be wound up for an afterenactment by a Magnificent Transformation”:
Encoding Joyce’s Draft Material.
This presentation showcases some actual XML-encodings of draft material for the fifteenth episode of Ulysses, "Circe," and proposes some XSLT transformations of the data.
DHIB and steering committee meetings
- January 22 2008: meeting of interested participants in a digital humanities intiative, 12:00 to 1:30 pm, 904 Clemens Hall
- February 19 2008: meeting of DHI steering committee, 3:00 to 4:00 pm, 904 Clemens Hall
- March 4 2008: Meeting of DHI steering committee, 3:30 to 5:00 pm, 904 Clemens Hall
- April 17 2008: Meeting with campus IT and Library leadership to discuss digital humanities support modelsa>, 12:30 - 1:30, 904 Clemens Hall (minutes)
- May 12 2008: Meeting of DHIB Steering Committee (1) to plan the fall event and (2) to review the semester's work and set goals for the coming year.
