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Until 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

In September 2015, we launched the O Say Can You See: Early Washington D.C., Law & Family website (OSCYS) [http://earlywashingtondc.org].  The site had an interactive network component, where users could easily see how a petitioner not only had relationships to attorneys and defendants, but to a web of family members and social connections involved in…

Read More Land of Confusion: A Relationship Visualization Experiment

[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