Monthly Archives: July 2008

The Walter Havighurst Special Collection in King Library at Miami University (Ohio) holds a copy of Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Himalayan Kingdom. It was lauded in the New York Times as the “largest commercial book ever published.” The … Continue reading →

The term scholarly editing can be used as a catch-all term for a reprint of a culturally significant work with an introduction by a scholar. Such editions usually include, in addition to a reprinted text, an introduction that surveys scholarly … Continue reading →

In the WWP seminar (see previous post), the presentation includes a slide on information gain [IE does not support this page, so use FireFox], one to which I’d like to add a small caveat. I’d like to note here that … Continue reading →

The Women Writers’ Project course on TEI encoding is well worth the attention of any scholar who is already involved in digital humanities or who is considering taking a leap into a project that includes encoding a text. While it’s … Continue reading →

Syd Bauman has again rescued me from faulty encoding, an encoding issue that dates from the preparation of my dissertation edition. I used a workaround to resolve an issue of display, but it turns out that an alternate fix (a … Continue reading →

Syd Bauman’s enthusiasm for the RELAX.NG schema is infectious. So I decided to use the schema instead of the P5 DTD I prepared in Roma application. He has almost convinced me that I can discard my DTD and use only … Continue reading →