Projects

A web-based TEI rendering engine that transforms TEI XML documents into HTML5 Custom Elements for display and interaction in web browsers.

Scholarly Editing:The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal archived by the U.S. Library of Congress and distributed by the University of Virginia Press.

The content published in the journal includes essays; micro-editions; reviews of print and digital editions, digital projects, and tools that enhance recovery work; teaching materials; and transcripts of interviews and conversations.

Scholarly XML is a VSCode extension with a RELAX NG validator and autocomplete with features typically needed by academic encoding projects. Unlike most XML VSCode extensions, Scholarly XML does not require Java.

The extension builds on a fork of Salve, a TypeScript RELAX NG implementation. This makes Scholarly XML easy to install for use with students, in workshops, and in minimal computing projects.

A Digital Scholarly Edition and Translation of the Revue des Colonies (1834-1842), the first French periodical for and by people of color.

The edition includes digitized images, full text transcriptions, English translations and bilingual annotations emanating from the collaboration of an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars. This critical apparatus situates the journal’s emancipatory rhetoric in the political, material, and cultural contexts of its publication, and belongs to a growing body of scholarship centering the contributions of Black writers to the political and cultural transformations of the nineteenth century.

Roma is a web application to create customization of XML grammars using the TEI ODD (One Document Does-it-all) format for meta-schema documentation.

Roma enables you to create a customization of the Text Encoding Initiative and the Music Encoding Initiative formats. It provides a user-friendly interface to pick and choose Elements, Attribute Classes, Model Classes, and Datatypes used in a schema.

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Community Calls are a monthly virtual meetings that bring together members of the TEI community to discuss various topics related to TEI encoding, best practices, and recent developments in the field.

In this Global Classrooms course (2020–2022), students of the University of Maryland and Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, came together to learn how to create and assess websites from a critical and humanities-focused perspective. Specifically, the course introduced “minimal computing” approaches, which privilege the use of open technologies, ownership of data and code, reduction in computing infrastructure and, consequently, environmental impact.

The course was structured around a group project with students from both universities. They collaborated virtually to create a multilingual (Spanish and English) digital edition of a colonial era text, while learning about Digital Humanities approaches to literary studies, digital publishing, history, and postcolonial studies.

This digital edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein offers a way to explore how the novel changed in its author’s lifetime. Scholars do not agree on a single authoritative text, though the 1818 edition became more available from the 1990s onward in teaching editions, reflecting increasing interest in the earlier versions of the text. Readers can explore not just two but five distinct moments in the novel’s writing and re-writing, and they do not proceed in orderly stages.

The Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI) is a multi-institutional effort that has focused since 2016 on the tasks necessary to build digital capacity in Islamicate studies, including improving Arabic-script optical character recognition (OCR) and handwritten text recognition (HTR).

During the now concluded catalyst phase of the project, we developed a TEI-based data model for texts in the OpenITI corpus as well as import/export pipelines.

The Shelley-Godwin Archive provides some digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers.

This project experimented with early versions of the IIIF image delivery protocol (originally called Shared Canvas) to provide high-resolution images of manuscripts alongside their transcriptions encoded in TEI.