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What I envision is parallel transcriptions of all witnesses to the text of the Mishnah (including citations in the Talmuds and the commentaries, although I [...]
It might seem strange to be talking about "beginnings" just as the semester is winding down, but that's exactly where I'm at: taking my very [...]
This past weekend the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) hosted a two-day workshop for BitCurator, a collaboration between UNC Chapel Hill's School [...]
As is generally the case with things intellectual, progress on my digital archive has been quite slow. I have several "handlers" (as I call them) [...]
Thanks to the input of Travis Brown, Assistant Director at MITH and the programmer working on this project, I am now revisiting the organization of [...]
As a professor in the humanities, I've spent a career committed to scholarly research. But I confess to having definite likes and dislikes. Here's what [...]
I've had the good fortune of being the graduate assistant for the Preserving Virtual Worlds (PVW) project for *mumble* years. The project is a partnership [...]
CHAPEL HILL - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has received a grant for $600,000 from [...]
This blog describes my progress on a born-digital critical edition of the Mishnah. For the various audiences who might read this, let me break out [...]
Later this week I will be attending the 2nd International Culture and Computing Conference at the University of Kyoto and presenting the paper "Diggable Data, Scalable Reading, and [...]