Back from Greece, which means, back to the database project! As I've written before, this whole experience is a learning process for me--I'm learning about functions, where they're called, how they hook up with other bits and bobs to display data in specific ways. This should be fairly straightforward, and I'm trying to make it …
Getting by with a little help from sourceforge and twitter
As you can no doubt tell, I don't know a lot about xquery, database applications, or how data is called/manipulated/displayed in eXist--there's a whole host of other "things I don't know" but that I also don't have names for yet. I'll try to explain what I'm doing in laywoman's terms, but if you know what I'm really …
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Proposals!
It's a real pleasure to get back into writing and researching; administration has its rewards, but I think I'd much rather teach, read, and write about the things that inspire and interest me. Since the sabbatical has technically started, I've been working on my Novels in Context database project, but I've also been working up several proposals …
Further adventures in XML
With the help of at least (!) one tech-savvy friend and the samples that come with eXisit-db, I've cobbled together a basic prototype of the Novels in Context project! Here's what I've done and learned so far, in addition to some things that don't work, and which I plan to fix: I was able to …
On constructing an editorial apparatus
How do we go about constructing a thematic editorial apparatus in TEI? The challenge is generating a thematic schema that is flexible and useful but not overly directive or misleading. I've been meditating on how to mark up thematic elements in a small (but growing!) collection of primary source materials for the study and, primarily, …
Working Project: Corpse Humor
I'm currently working on an essay about the way that popular drama addresses the material practices of death in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, entitled "Corpse Humor: Funereal Practices in Early 18th Century Popular Performance." A (very drafty) draft is available online for comment and feedback. I anticipate cutting some sections and foregrounding other …
Innovations 2013: TEI and XML for Humanists
TEI and XML for Humanists: A Report from the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer Seminar How and why do humanists use programming? XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) is an accessible but robust syntax for making texts machine-readable, and the Text Encoding Initiative has developed standards for describing texts through XML. These mark-up syntaxes, in conjunction with XSLT …
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New projects, things left undone (for now)
So, every morning when I get up, I see the copy of the book I'm currently reviewing, and I berate myself for not finishing the thing! I've gotten about 1/4 of the way through, and I've looked over sample reviews from Restoration, but I'm struggling with completion. The book is a collection of essays of …
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Tonya Howe 