Digital Editions Session Part 1
The presentation of Marie Bisson’s project of a Digital Edition of works by Thomas Le Roy was interesting to me especially because it is still pretty virtual – just like our project, still ringing with...
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Slim Slam
(This is the 1-minute epos I presented in the poster/poetry slam preceding the poster session at the TEI conference in Würzburg) Once upon a time there were six brave girls Working in such caves they...
View ArticleAdios, Würzburg
So here goes, heading beack home (and already dreading the trip with the Deutsche Bahn)! What I will remember of my first TEI conference: 1) Big projects and small projects do not really have the same...
View ArticlePatching Part One: This Edition
While migrating my blog to hypotheses.org, I seem to have lost some of my original posts in the meanders of the world wide web. Here are two of them explaining the big idea of this edition: #1: What’s...
View ArticlePlaces not to be
The first letters I encoded in the past few days are not really representative of the rest of the corpora, but they forced me to deal with interesting problems concerning the architecture of our index...
View ArticleEncoding, indexing, encoding, indexing – blogging
Although I have not even reached the end of Letter 7 (out of 57 for the first corpus and 55 for the other one, and I am still dreaming of having put together something decent in two months…) or, for...
View ArticleFoucault, Jesus and St. Paul
I am proceeding with my encoding of the letters from Adolph von Buch to Louis de Beausobre (you can find a general presentation of that corpus here and an analysis of my first difficulties here and...
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Famous Last Encodings
There are these things in the preparation of the edition that I have been postponing for a year and have to deal with now because all of the other questions are answered. I am really not the postponing...
View ArticleHerr Sommer und Frau Sonne (macrons forever)
After initiating what turned out to be an animated debate on the TEI-list, we had still not settled on anything yet concerning the Geminationsstriche on the m and the n, which still appear in the form...
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Genetics and pdf
I have been reluctant to practice genetic editing so far. Not that I disregard the importance and/or meaning of such editions, but I did not think that we were fit for that. My main worry was that it...
View ArticleWhy I still hate MS Word 18 years later
During the #dhd2016 conference as well as in the course of our study on research practices in the humanities, I could do nothing but note that MS Word remains one, if not the most important digital...
View ArticleOPEN – Contribution to the AGATE Workshop January 16th, 2017
This is the text of my contribution to the Workshop “Open – Connective – Sustainable” Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear President Hatt, Dear Academy Representatives & Guests, I am honored and happy to...
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