“Does the World Need Another Website? An Insider’s View of Starting a DH Project”
Dr. Laura Estill, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, ETCL
Wednesday, March 28th
12 – 1 p.m.
Clearihue C108
The ETCL invites you to attend the seventh and final meeting of the 2011-12 Brown Bag Speaker Series. This is a series of informal lunchtime seminars for faculty and graduate students in the Faculty of Humanities and across the university to discuss issues in digital literacy, digital humanities, and the changing face of research, scholarship, and teaching in our increasingly digital world. For an hour once per month, we meet to hear from an invited speaker, share ideas, and build knowledge.
On Wednesday, March 28th, from 12 until 1 p.m., Laura Estill (Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, ETCL) will be presenting a talk entitled, “Does the World Need Another Website? An Insider’s View of Starting a DH Project.” Details are below. Please share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in attending.
Abstract: In this talk, Laura introduces a variety of both print and online resources that are invaluable to the study of early modern manuscripts. The urge to organize and categorize early modern miscellanies predates the digital, but it is only with the creation of online tools that scholars can effectively channel these impulses. Laura presents the inchoate stages of her digital project, “DEx: An Database of Dramatic Extracts in English Manuscripts,” which will, in its release version, be an online searchable database encoded in TEI and presented using XSLT. This talk discusses the challenges of starting a new DH project (including genre, context, and audience) as well as the rewards (from currently working on the project and for future users).
Bio: Laura Estill earned her PhD in English Literature and Culture before 1700 from Wayne State University in Detroit (2010). Laura’s work on Renaissance drama and early modern print and manuscript culture has appeared in Studies in English Literature, Shakespeare, Early Theatre, and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare. Laura is glad to be at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, where she is gaining valuable DH skills.
Bring your lunch and join us to discuss the future of digital research!