New project alert! I'm joining forces with Prof Beliaeva Solomon @mashabelsol at UMD French to work on a digital edition of a 19th c. global antislavery periodical. It'll be #TEI-powered and all-static with long term preservation front and center. More info: https://arhu.umd.edu/news/assistant-professor-french-receives-nhprc-mellon-planning-grant-create-digital-edition-global
Raff Viglianti
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PhD ~ Senior Research Software Developer at MITH, ~ Digital publishing across text and music ~ #globalDH ~ TEI Council Member
Elisa Beshero-BondarIs Minimal Computing the answer, asks @tillgrallert @TEIConsortium : Well, what is the minimum in minimal computing? Not enough to use tech that's open source, but must be tech that's accessible to a local community already suffering from lack of resources.
@tillgrallert identifies minimal computing principles as a way to counter issues such as linguistic imperialism -- but as means to an end: minimal computing as _meaningful_ computing #teimec23
Searching through transliterated text is equally frustrating giving the variety of standards combined with uneven "normalization" to ASCII for indexing. #teimec23
.@tillgrallert explains how there are 32 possible Unicode combinations for writing "Meccan" -- they all look the same to human eyes, but they don't coincide for computers! Searching becomes challenging or impossible. It often depends on the keyboard you have in front of you #teimec23
.@jamescummings has been teaching TEI starting with the "abstract model" and by directing students to https://roma.tei-c.org/ _first_. Someone from the audience highlights how this can help non-English speakers to learn about how the TEI works, before digging into the more intimidating English-only Guidelines chapters #teimec23
Relatedly, Kiyonori Nagasaki points out the need for publishing a _print_ book introduction to the TEI was a necessary step to gain recognition of TEI in the wider Japanese speaking academia #teimec23
Gimena del Rio points out how the problem of multilingualism in global academia and pedagogy must be approached from both a global (shared practices) and a local perspective. There's no single solution #teimec23
The poster slam at #teimec23 is super fun this year -- Syd Bauman would be proud! There were songs, a comedy sketch, poetry, and impromptu group photos :)