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From Archive to Database: Using Crowdsourcing, TEI, and Collaborative Labor to Construct the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project
  • Hilary Havens
  • Eliza Alexander Wilcox
  • Meredith L. Hale
  • Jamie Kramer
  • collaboration
  • transcription
  • metadata
  • markup
  • archives
  • manuscripts
  • semantic web
  • ethics
  • editing
  • crowdsourcing
  • Zooniverse
  • TEI
  • linked open data
  • Maria Edgeworth
  • name authorities
  • digital archives
  • Romantic period
  • long eighteenth century
  • correspondence
  • controlled vocabularies

Our article describes how we are building the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project, an open-access archive containing Maria Edgeworth's correspondence, tracing our steps including image retrieval and processing, metadata generation, transcription, linked open data, and TEI encoding.

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Lilypond Music-Notation Software in the Digital-Humanities Toolbox
  • Andrew A. Cashner
  • access
  • editing
  • markup
  • minimal computing
  • music
  • tools
  • users
  • music notation
  • open-source software
  • free software
  • minimal computing
  • semantic markup
  • conversion and exchange
  • musicology
  • publishing
  • editing
  • music encoding
  • workflow

Lilypond music-notation software as a case study: how to make open-source tools work for us.

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Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Taxonomy development as a site of negotiation and compromise in an interdisciplinary software development project
  • Jennifer C. Edmond
  • Alejandro Benito Santos
  • Michelle Doran
  • Roberto Therón
  • Michał Kozak
  • Cezary Mazurek
  • Eveline Wandl-Vogt
  • Aleyda Rocha Sepulveda
  • collaboration
  • project report
  • interdisciplinarity
  • dh
  • data curation
  • markup

    We discuss how the cross-disciplinary design of a taxonomy of sources of uncertainty in Digital Humanities (DH) became not just an instrument to organise data, but also a tool to negotiate and build compromises between different communities of practice.

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    Hidden in Plain-TeX: Investigating Minimal Computing Workflows
    • Nabeel Siddiqui
    • project management
    • markup
    • tools
    • minimal computing
    • philosophy
    • history
    • publishing

      Drawing on software studies, data feminism, digital rhetoric studies, information science, and the history of computing, this paper foregrounds Markdown as a cultural object to analyze the social, cultural, and political pressures surrounding the digital humanities.  Rather than beginning with contemporary discourse, it draws parallels between Markdown and Donald Knuth's TeX.

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      A Model of Versions and Layers
      • Desmond Schmidt
      • digitization
      • manuscripts
      • markup
      • transcription
      • editing

        Presents a critique of current text-encoding practices centered on difficulties concerning the encoding of multiple versions of individual texts

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