I suppose one of many things I pulled out of these sessions was a greater appreciation for distillation in critical work. In an article or chapter or whatever else, you can’t include everything, even though that is always our temptation. Similarly, you can’t encode every single thing you think of; you have to be selective, despite the temptation to tag every name, every place, every event, date and so on. It can be a bit overwhelming at first, but like any learning process, this process of selection and distillation appears to be getting easier with practice. More importantly, the doors opened by such technology are just mind-blowing. I had no idea how many commands would be at our disposal and how much we can tag / trace / annotate and so on. It was very much an eye-opening experience.

I really encourage anyone who hasn’t to check out TEI next year or any of the other excellent workshops that DEMiC and TEMiC have to offer!