Editing Modernism in Canada

Events

ModLab Workshop, Yale University

May 8-11, 2012

Instructors: Dean Irvine, Matt Huculak, Kirsta Stapelfeldt, and Alan Stanley

Sponsored by the Macmillan Center (Yale), the Internet Technology Group (Yale), Beinecke Library (Yale), Editing Modernism in Canada, Islandora/DiscoveryGarden, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Tuesday, May 8th

7-9pm: Cocktail Reception
Linsly-Chittenden Hall 319
Map
Opening remarks and reception

Wednesday, May 9th

All workshop sessions will take place in Bass Library L06
Map

8:30-9am: Coffee and snacks
Bass Library, Thain Cafe

9-9:15am: Opening Remarks
[Dean]

9:15-10:15: Intro to Digital Editing
[Dean]
-digital humanities
-remediation
-born digital
-digital editions (image based, text based)

Rossetti Archive
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/
Whitman Archive
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
Herman Melville’s Typee
http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/melville/
NINES
http://www.nines.org/
The Yellow Nineties Online
http://www.1890s.ca/
Woolf Online
http://www.woolfonline.com/
In Transition: Selected Poems by the Baroness
http://digital.lib.umd.edu/transition/
Modernist Journals Project
http://www.modjourn.org

10:15-10:45am: Break

10:45-noon: Intro to Markup
[Matt]
Gentle Introduction to XML
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/SG.html
TEI by Example
http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/
HTML5
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/default.asp

[Alan]
RDF
http://www.rdfabout.com/quickintro.xpd
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/
OAC
http://www.openannotation.org/
http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/

12-1pm: Lunch
William L. Harkness Hall 309
Map

1pm-1:45pm: Data Gathering
[Matt] Scanning
Optical Character Recognition
Metadata (MODS, METS, etc.)
Entities
Authority Records

1:45-2:15pm: Introduction to Islandora
[Kirsta]
Documentation space: 
http://wiki.discoverygarden.ca/display/EMIC

2:15-2:45pm: Break

2:45-4:00pm: Digital Commons
[Kirsta/Matt]
-How to add/delete/replace images
-How to add/delete/replace born-digital material
-How to renumber pages
-How to update datastreams
-Participants add/delete/replace content

Thursday, May 10th

8:30-9am: Coffee and snacks
Bass Library, Thain Cafe

9-10:15am: Editing Transcriptions
[Matt/Kirsta]
-OCR cleanup
-How to mark up a transcription
-Participants do markup

10:15-10:45am: Break

10:45-noon: Editing Images
[Matt/Kirsta]
-How to mark up image
-Participants do markup

12-1pm: Lunch
William L. Harkness Hall 309

1-2:15pm: Other Content Types
[Kirsta]
-Other supported content types

2:15-2:45pm: Break

2:45-4:00: Versioning and Collation
[Matt]
-Versioning and the Modernist Versions Project
http://modernistversions.com
-Demo of Juxta with Tono-Bungay
http://www.juxtasoftware.org/

Friday, May 11th

8:30-9am: Coffee and snacks
Bass Library, Thain Cafe

9-10:15am: Workshop
Work time for participants

10:15-10:45am: Break

10:45-noon: Workshop
Work time for participants

12-1pm: Lunch
William L. Harkness Hall 309

1-2:15pm: Workshop
Work time for participants

2:15-2:45: Break

2:45-4:00: Demos
[Dean]
-Demos of sample editions

6:30pm: Dinner
Thai Taste
1151 Chapel Street
Map