Sherry Darling asked on SEDIT-L recently about practices used in publishing documentary materials to the web. Here is my response on behalf of Mark Twain Project Online; I wanted also to post anything at all this year to this blog, so I’ve included the response below.
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the state of mark twain project online
Sirens 2012
The fourth occurrence of Sirens, a conference about women in/and fantasy fiction, took place 11–14 October 2012 in Stevenson, Washington, which is about an hour east of Portland, Oregon. I didn’t take my laptop and thus didn’t liveblog any sessions, but I tweeted a bit. See the end of the Storify embedded below for next year’s theme and guests of honor.
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a little light javascript
If you ever need to convert HTML+CSS (such as that created by WordPerfect or Word export) to generic TEI, you can write a JavaScript function that e.g. gathers up all the <span>s and iterates through them one at a time in an array, and then you do something like this to them. (What’s an array? For this purpose it’s a matrix with one row, i.e, an ordered list of things/entities. Looking up “array” itself on Wikipedia only proves the tired axiom: if you have to ask, you don’t know.) Anyway, something like this: Continue reading “a little light javascript”
abstract for “Textual Portability”
Herewith the abstract for “Textual Portability and Its Uses in England, ca. 1250–1330,” my 2006 dissertation, partly so that I can reach it without rooting around in metaphorically dusty folders of my laptop’s backup external hard drive:
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status: mid-june 2012
So much for blogging more regularly; aside from the usual vagaries of life, I’ve been working on a couple of side projects. One is secret till completed. The other involves copy-editing part of a cool forthcoming game by Keith Nemitz called 7 Grand Steps.
Instead of inventing something interesting to write about, therefore, I’ll lay out the pieces of my project quondam futurusque, or more accurately, the current phase of my now wholly self-funded connected experiment concerning Li Rei de Engletere. Continue reading “status: mid-june 2012”