After what felt like a very long spring, summer and fall seemed to fly by! Despite the fast passage of time, the CDRH team has quite a bit of news to share with you about our activities of the past few months. Personnel Changes After 40 years at the university, Kay Walter is retiring from…
Read More Summer and Fall 2020 in the CDRHJust as it impacted so many people and organizations this spring, Covid-19 has fundamentally changed how the CDRH team works with each other day to day. In mid-March, carrying houseplants and microfilm readers and in some cases entire desktop computers, we vacated the CDRH and set up home workstations. Despite the new circumstances, we’ve been…
Read More Spring 2020 (not) in the CDRHUntil late 2019, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) had no multilingual sites. Despite creating and maintaining dozens of sites with content spanning disciplines, the only projects that even came close were the Omaha & Ponca Digital Dictionary, and The Good Person: Excerpts from the Yorùbá Proverb Treasury. Though both of these…
Read More Cartas a la Familia: A Lesson in Internationalization[Originally posted by Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, January 5, 2017 on Github Pages] We laid out a fairly ambitious work plan for 6-8 weeks, so it’s unsurprising we could not finish everything we hoped to accomplish. We have a host of features to add, and have laid the…
Read More Lewis and Clark Part 3: Future Goals[Originally posted by Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, January 5, 2017 on Github Pages] Reformatting the HTML The XSLT to transform the TEI into HTML was re-written, to allow for the changes from P4 to P5. We also added new features to the HTML, like terms you can hover…
Read More Lewis and Clark Part 2: Building the Site[Originally posted by Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, January 5, 2017 on Github Pages] In early 2016, Brian Pytlik Zillig ran the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition P4 TEI XML files through his transformation tool Abbot to migrate the documents from P4 to the current P5 standard.…
Read More Lewis and Clark Part I: Migrating XML and Building the Index[Originally posted by Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, January 5, 2017 on Github Pages] The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Press, has recently redesigned and relaunched the award-winning Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This relaunch keeps all of…
Read More Lewis and Clark: Going to the Source