DHSI-EAST 2022

Second Annual DHSI-EAST 2022: May 2-5, 2022

Join us online for the second annual DHSI-East, hosted by St. Francis Xavier University's Digital Humanities Center, May 2-5, 2022.

"Introduction to Text Encoding"

The event will be 4 full days (roughly 9am-4pm Atlantic time) from Monday 2 May to Thursday 5 May 2022 and will feature a keynote address by Dr. Ken Penner (see below). This will be a free virtual event with limited registration.

Registration is now full--thanks for your interest!

Workshop Description: "Introduction to Text Encoding"

For those new to the field, this is an introduction to the theory and practice of encoding  primary source documents for analysis, display, and preservation. The workshop takes participants through the process of representing original documents in a  in XML (Extensible Markup Language) using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) specifications.  This is an introductory course: no prior experience with XML is required.

Instructors: Dr. Emily Christina Murphy and Dr. Constance Crompton

Dr. Emily Christina Murphy is Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. She is the director of the (Re)Media Lab, currently under construction, that studies cultural memory and remediation from a digital humanities perspective. She has taught TEI and DH Pedagogy across the DH Training Network since 2014. Her work appears in Doing More Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and English Studies in Canada. She lives and works on the unceded territory of the Syilx (Okanagan) peoples.

Dr. Constance Crompton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa and Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities. She directs the University of Ottawa’s Labo de données en sciences humaines/The Humanities Data Lab, and is a member of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS), and Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership (INKE) research teams. She serves as VP English of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques and an associate director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria), North America’s largest digital humanities training institute. She is the co-editor of two volumes, Doing Digital Humanities and Doing More Digital Humanities (Routledge 2016, 2019). She lives and works on unceded Algonquin land.

Keynote: Dr. Ken Penner, “A Toolkit for Humanities Research and Editing Ancient Documents” 

Monday 2 May, 4-5pm Atlantic Time

Register for the keynote here: https://bit.ly/DHSI-East2022Keynote

Note: you do not have to be registered for the workshop to attend this keynote.