Digital Intellectuals Blog
As a scientist, I have to live with an unbearable contradiction: while science is producing all the data that show that we find ourselves in the midst of a massive climate and biodiversity crisis – as well as the models that would make it possible for us to avoid worst...
I have spent five months writing a book. It turns out, when you write a book, there remains little time to blog. Then by September my sabbatical ended, and there remained time for about nothing. As I have started rattling around in the wheel of everyday academic madness again, it...
I have always loved the DHd conferences, but this year’s is even better. It’s organized by people that are uniquely dear to my heart, and they have done an amazing job organizing this (now fully online) conference. They have even managed to bring together a long paper session with people...
There are things you think you are going to understand, eventually – and things you have to ask about because after a few months, it is pretty clear you won’t magically seize the big picture well enough to make sense of the details. Ever since I joined ecoinfo last fall,...
Many months ago, I posted an article about the work I had to do to obtain a publishable edition of my corpus. I called it a trinity because it would be divided into three parts: transcription; encoding; annotation. In this article, I developed the first part of the trinity and...
Figuring out what to do It has been a year and a half since I started taking action on what I could do to improve the environmental footprint of my research activities, and encouraging those around me to move in the same direction. The initial event for me was the...
A year ago, almost to the day, I wrote my first post about TEI Publisher, as I began working with it, to execute the ‘publication’ phase of the pipeline I mentioned many times in my posts. I had created the application and it didn’t look like much. Six months later,...