Coding Scholl, Pittsburgh
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We invite you to join members of the Digital Mitford project team from
Saturday June 25 through Monday June 27, 2016 for the Fourth Annual Workshop
Series and Coding School, hosted by the newly established Center for the
Digital Text at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. As featured on
its public website, http://digitalmitford.org, the Digital Mitford project
has two major purposes:
1. to produce the first comprehensive scholarly edition of the works and
letters of Mary Russell Mitford, and
2. to share knowledge of TEI XML and related humanities computing practices
with all serious scholars interested in contributing to the project.
Our editing team meets face-to-face to brush up on project methods and make
major decisions, and we invite participants and prospective new editors to
learn our methods and think with us about project management challenges
during the Coding School. Please join us if you want to learn text encoding
methods and their applications in the Digital Humanities through hands-on
participation in a large-scale digital archive project. We will orient you
to coding by giving you hands-on experience with literary and historical
documents, from the careful encoding of markings on manuscript material to
autotagging enormous and complicated texts with regular expression matching.
And we invite you to think with us about how best to build a site interface
and visualizations to help explore the data we are gathering on
nineteenth-century networks of people, places, and texts.
Our workshops are held at the lovely Pitt-Greensburg
http://greensburg.pitt.edu campus, recently named one of the five most
scenic college campuses near Pittsburgh
<http://www.greensburg.pitt.edu/news/pitt-greensburg-named-one-five-most-scenic-college-campuses>.
This year’s Coding School is part of a series of Digital Humanities events
in the Pittsburgh area, as we are coordinating it to follow immediately
after the Keystone DH Conference http://keystonedh.network/2016/ (from
June 22-24) in Pittsburgh. Our editors will convene in the days preceding
the conference, and the Coding School begins immediately afterwards. We
expect people to arrive on Friday afternoon or evening June 24 and depart on
Tuesday morning June 28, with our Coding School in session from Saturday
morning June 25 through Monday afternoon June 27. Who participates?
Though we draw our active editors from researchers of 19th-century
literature, we hope that all who join the Mitford project (whatever their
primary research field) will find good resources for professional scholarly
research and publication, and gain beneficial experience for individual
projects. Joining our workshop leads to a free first-year membership in the
Text Encoding Initiative, the international consortium establishing best
practices for encoding of digital texts. We anticipate hosting two kinds of
audiences:
1) those who wish to join the Mitford project as active editors, and
2) equally welcome, those who wish to learn our methods to apply them to
their own projects.
What we teach and share:
- Discussion of best practices for preparing digital scholarlyeditions as digital databases
- Textual scholarship and paleography (working primarily with
19th-century manuscript correspondence)
- Participation in an active “dig site” for important data on networks
of women writers, theaters, and publishers from the 18th and 19th centuries
- Hands-on learning of text encoding, including the following:
- TEI XML http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml encoding and best
practices for project sustainability and longevity
- Autotagging and regular expression matching to prepare digital
texts
- Hands-on experience with XPath, code schemas, XSLT, and an XML
database
- Perspective on project management and interface development as we
work on developing our site interface
- Individual and Group Instruction, working with our Explanatory Guides
and Resources http://newtfire.org/dh , organized and led by an elected
member of the TEI Technical Council
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/ .
How to register:
Send me an e-mail (at ebb8 at pitt.edu http://pitt.edu ) by Friday
April 8, 2016, indicating your interest in the Digital Mitford Coding
School. A registration fee is required of all who are not actively
affiliated as editors with the project:
1. Students, Adjunct Instructors, or Independent Scholars: $180
2. Full-Time Faculty Members and Librarians: $300
All registration fees are to be paid by check to the University of
Pittsburgh at Greensburg, and are due by mail by May 16, 2015. Please
mail checks to: The Digital Mitford Project, c/o Elisa Beshero-Bondar, U.
of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, 150 Finoli Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601-5804.
(Donations to the project above and beyond this amount are, of course,
quite welcome.)
Budgeting for the June 2016 Workshops:
- We will cover the costs of residence in suites (with kitchens and good
wireless internet) at the Pitt-Greensburg campus and will arrange for
licenses for an extended (90-day) period to use our XML editing software .
- We cannot cover the costs of travel to Pitt-Greensburg, but we can and
do coordinate rides from the Pittsburgh International Airport, the Latrobe
regional airport, and the Amtrak train stations in Pittsburgh and in
Greensburg.
- We ask each participant to investigate local funding sources to help
cover the costs of travel here.
Thanks, everyone, for reading and sharing with interested parties! We look
forward to seeing many new and familiar faces at beautiful Pitt-Greensburg
in June. Please feel free to write me with any questions in advance of our
application due date of Friday, April 8.
