The ETCL was well represented at Carleton University for the SDH-SEMI conference this year. Here are some brief notes on what they did there. Visit the SDH-SEMI site to learn more: http://www.sdh-semi.org/conference2009.php.

  • Ray delivered a paper presentation titled “Understanding the Scope of an Evolving Digital Humanities Community: A ʻViralʼ Experiment in the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium.”
  • Serina (“Medieval Games Online: Representing Medieval Games in a Social, Interactive Environment”), Brett (“Digital Renaissance Editions”), and Ray (“What are the Digital Humanities”) all participated in the Poster Session.
  • Ray was part of a panel discussion on Graduate Education in the Digital Humanities. Also on the panel were Stan Ruecker, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter Organisciak, Jean Guy Meunier, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Alan Galey, and Aimee Morrison.
  • Finally, Brett and Ray presented on “Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) and Professional Reading Environment (PReE), Past, Present, Future: A Study in Academic Process.”