Shared Deck for 2024 MLA 404: Evaluating Digital Scholarship

Shared Slide Deck for MLA 404 Talks by Elisa Beshero-Bondar and Kandice Sharren. Contains EBB's "Digital Scholarship for Keeps: What Matters and What Lasts?" and KS's "Three CV Lines Walk Into a Bar: Modeling Early Career Research Profiles in the Digital Humanities".

Digital scholarship for keeps: what matters and what lasts?

We who have attained positions in the humanities in higher education at any level must recognize that the opportunities for success and stability in academic careers have been dwindling rapidly. Perhaps we take a stance of resistance to insist that standards of evaluation for merit and promotion must remain stable in the face of pressures to our institutions, but this does not protect our programs, our university presses, our colleagues from dwindling enrollments and positions. While the safety of our programs is by no means secure, we would do well to support experimental work of collaboration across disciplines and ranks, as well as creative scholarship developing alternative media to the traditional domains of academic publishing—the projects of the digital and public humanities. Too much labor in building digital community, projects, and courses goes unacknowledged in our merit and promotion practices to the point of alienating scholars who should be poised to take our disciplines in new directions. Revising evaluation standards within our institutions everywhere may be critical to preserving humanities programs. Supporting and encouraging digital scholarship may also help us to recognize what matters and what lasts in a time marked by digital innovation and evanescence.

video-section-dividers

section dividers for use in Zoom recordings on coding processes

Reconciliation and Interchange: Editing the Page as Text

Presentation for the TEI-MEC conference 2023

Frankenstein Variorum Document Model to Interface

Presentation for the TEI-MEC conference 2023

Thinking about collation

Slides to accompany a workshop at TEI - MEC 2023 Paderborn

Declarative markup in the time of "AI"

Slides on a talk about the significance of declarative markup during a time of AI driven by large language models. For presentation at Balisage: The Markup Conference, 2023.

Locke Anthology in TEI and MEI

Tech Panel for the Worldwide Climate Justice Teach-In at Penn State Behrend

Revising sex and gender in the TEI Guidelines

Survey the Frankenstein Novel Across Five Versions

A chapter or "chunk"-level survey of the novel Frankenstein, showing how chapter, letter, and other structural boundaries align with each other across five different versions. Some versions introduce extra chapters and some portions are longer than others. This is a "bird's eye" view on one screen in SVG of the structural variation. Mouse over the black squares for the text of each edition at that specific point.

Adventures in Correcting XML Collation w/ Python and XSLT

The word by word, comma by comma, and sometimes tag by tag comparison of manuscripts and editions (called “collation”) is notoriously tedious and error-prone. But computer-aided collation is like a power loom that inevitably tangles up threads caught in the machinery. We need new tooling to help us unsnarl the threads. To this point, we aligned variant passages in the Frankenstein Variorum project using a Python script to feed collateX. Now we are experimenting with the Text Alignment Network’s tandiff XSLT to handle the string comparison completely with XPath and XSLT. How far can we take XSLT and Schematron in automating the preparation, collation, and correction of electronic editions?

Processing Tangles in the Frankenstein Variorum

For the DH 2022 conference we seek to share our efforts in the Frankenstein Variorum project (hereafter referred to as FV) to automate corrections to machine-assisted collation and thereby to refine our collation pre-processing and post-processing algorithms.

It's alive! The Frankenstein Variorum and adventures in machine-assisted collation

We have been working on a challenging experiment with automated text-collation to compare and visualize five distinctly different versions of the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley. Working with computer-aided collation involves much testing and refining as the process inevitably does not run smoothly. In our case, the collation process is complicated by our comparison of very differently-encoded digital editions: the Shelley-Godwin Archive's diplomatic TEI edition (encoding page-by-page surfaces and zones as well as marginal insertions and deletions), together with simpler encodings of four other editions mainly representing print publications and their semantic structures (encoded in chapters and letters). I will discuss how we organized the collation process by “chunking” the documents along parallel structures marked in each text, and also how we involve the TEI markup of paragraph and chapter boundaries as well as deletions and insertions in the process to make the markup part of the collated edition. Most importantly, I want to discuss the necessity of good, clear documentation to guide our testing of collation methods and analysis of what can go wrong and how to resolve it.

Coding Mary Behrend's 1909 Calendar: A Digital Humanities Challenge

This presentation shares how a fortunate find of Mary Behrend's loose-leaf 1909 calendar sheets at the Penn State Behrend Library archives helped provide a wonderful teaching on-ramp for students to learn digital humanities over a 100 years later!

AI, Text Analysis, Data Ethics

Anna Julia Cooper Survey Document Modeling

presentation for the 2021 Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH) Conference, also for the 2021 Keystone DH Conference.

Code

An orientation to the shell commands for working with git and GitHub.

Anna Julia Cooper and the TEI

presentation for the 2021 Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH) Conference, also for the 2021 Keystone DH Conference.

AJC-BlackDH-TEI

presentation for the 2021 Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH) Conference, also for the 2021 Keystone DH Conference.

LearningCSS

Slides to help with learning CSS

learningHTML

Slides to help with learning HTML

Extra Slides Copy of AJC-BlackDH-Keystone

presentation for the 2021 Keystone DH Conference

Building University Infrastructure for Digital Art

A Linked-Data Method to Organize an XML Database for Mathematics Education

paper for Balisage 2021 Conference

AJC-BlackDH-TEI

presentation for the 2021 Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH) Conference, also for the 2021 Keystone DH Conference.

Langston Hughes and The Blues: Text Archiving, Analysis, and Black DH for Undergraduates

presentation for the 2021 Keystone DH Conference

Frankenstein Variorum: Orientation to the "Back End"

An orientation to the collation preparation work of the Frankenstein Variorum project.

Thalaba Network Analysis

an exploration of network analysis applied to mythical and mappable locations as placed in scientific epic poems at the turn of the 19th-century. Featuring Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) and Erasmus Darwin's The Temple of Nature (1802).

Getting to the TEI from crowdsourcing?

About a pedagogical experiment introducing the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to my Text Encoding students in Fall 2020.

DH and TEI: Text Encoding Initiative

An orientation to the Digital Humanities via the early history of computing.

commandLineNav

introduction to navigating and organizing computer files at the command line

Text Encoding and Processing as Writing Intensive

slides for Balisage 2020 virtual presentation, 28 July 2020

Frankenstein Variorum: January 2020

Measurement, Translation, and the Values of Computation

An orientation to the Digital Humanities via the early history of computing.

Visual aids for the Frankenstein Variorum project

Document Modeling with the TEI Critical Apparatus

A panel presentation for the 2019 TEI Conference in Graz Austria

MRM Rienzi Prompt Book vs Examiner's Office MS

An attempt to track all changes in image snips.

Tracking Changes in Mary Russell Mitford's Rienzi

a slide presentation on Mary Russell Mitford's Rienzi as it was altered for performance for Drury Lane theater in London in 1828.

The Frankenstein Variorum Challenge: Finding a Clearer View of Change Over Time

slide presentation for the DH2019 conference, July 9-12 2019 at Utrecht University.

Thalaba Locational Network

an exploration of network analysis applied to mythical and mappable locations as placed in scientific epic poems at the turn of the 19th-century. Featuring Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) and Erasmus Darwin's The Temple of Nature (1802).

zenRaising

presentation materials for Balisage 2018

Reinventing our work together: The practice of "Digital Studies" at Pitt-Greensburg

presentation materials for introducing Digital Studies and the Center for the Digital Text at Pitt-Greensburg

FrankensteinCollation

pghPitt_Frankenstein

a presentation for the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh for 2 April 2018

Stitching the Seams of Textual Bodies

presentation on the Pittsburgh-MITH Digital Frankenstein Project for Frankenstein Week at Missouri Southern State University, 5 March 2018

elisaSlidePrepMLA18

draft of slides to be included in roundtable slide deck for the Bicentennial Bits and Bytes: Digital Frankenstein Roundtable Panel at MLA 2018.

Pittsburgh Frankenstein Variorum Project

slides for roundtable presentation on the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Frankenstein project at the MLA convention, 2018.

The Windup Girl

Copy of Teaching TEI as Repurposing; Or, Cooking with Frankenstein, Mary Mitford and Emily Dickinson

presentation for 13 November 2017 at the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) 2017 Conference: http://hcmc.uvic.ca/tei2017/schedule.php