Hankering for a change of some sort--though goodness knows why I think I need even more of that in my life, but that's an existential question best left offline--I decided recently to ditch Windows and commit fully to Ubuntu. I had 11.04 on a computer I didn't really use all that often, sort of an …
DH2015 Poster
For the curious and the interested and anyone else who happens upon it, my Digital Humanities 2015 poster in PDF and an at-a-glance PNG, below.
How-to guide for basic collaborating in GitHub
The summer is upon us, and I have had the great good fortune of a grant to be able to work with three IT students from Marymount on the Novels in Context project. We are all learning about how to collaborate using GitHub for version control, and I found myself in the exciting position of having to teach …
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CEA 2015 Remarks
CEA 2015, Indianapolis, IN March 28, 2015 Novels in Context: A TEI Database for Teachers, Students, and Scholars In Fall 2012, I was teaching my “survey” of World Literature (1500-1800… I know!), a class that I typically teach once an academic year. I use the Norton Anthology, Volumes C and D, because they have a …
Virginia Humanities Conference
One of the things I have been working on for the past several months has been organizing the 2015 Virginia Humanities Conference, on the theme, "The Humanities and/in the Public Sphere." This April, Marymount University will be hosting the conference on its Main Campus, and I am very happy to note that we have a …
EN490: Alexander the Little and the Furious Sappho
This upcoming Spring, I'll be teaching our Major Authors course--organized around Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu, and the material culture of authorship. I've not taught these authors in any extended fashion before, so I'm very excited about the opportunity! Given those butterflies in the stomach, I'm making a draft available on Google Drive--any and all feedback, comments, …
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To theme or not to theme?
After the November EC/ASECS conference and the Thanksgiving holiday--as well as working on other projects, like my Kinski paper--I'm now back to work on the database. While I have a basic working model, I still need to put it online, and there are several other issues I'm trying to work through before I need more …
DH2015 Poster Proposal
Novels in Context: A TEI Database of Primary Resources for Teachers, Students, and Scholars DH 2015 | Poster Proposal Tonya Howe Marymount University thowe@marymount.edu | cerosia.org In this poster presentation, I hope to share the (evolving) product of a recent grant to create a free- and open-source database of curated, excerpted, annotated primary source materials …
Iteration and calling new functions
This past week I think I've had a couple breakthroughs in terms of understanding how xQuery works. The rubicon was when Christian Moser from the eXist forum explained iterative variables to me. I know, of course, what iterative variables are, but I didn't know exactly how they worked in XQL--in my head, creating a variable …
Updating the search and display features
I've been pretty busy this last week on the database, though I haven't committed a lot of it to this blog--I have, however, been updating the project on GitHub, which has been a lot easier to use now that I have a project that needs version control in this specific way. Most of my time has …
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