Coding Community: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada

Constance Crompton @clkcromptonUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan

Coding Community• The LGLC Project• The Text Encoding Initiative •New Interfaces for Human Readers•New Code for Algorithmic Readers

Lesbian and Gay Liberation In Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975

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Text Encoding Initiative• The language of the Text Encoding Initiative, TEI,

is an XML language for representing documents in an intellectually satisfying and responsible way.• TEI markup lets one formalize dates, places,

metaphors, marginal manuscript notes, deletions, additions, decorative drop capitals (etc) within a text.• TEI is software and hardware independent.• TEI is a community-maintained language.• See http://www.tei-c.org/ for more.

TEITEI is the archival standard text markup languages in the Digital Humanities.

• British National Corpus• Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic

Scholarship (NINES)• Library of Congress American Memory Project• ProQuest’s English Poetry’s Full-Text Database • Eighteenth Century Collections Online• Women Writers Online• The Chymistry of Isaac Newton• Oxford Text Archive• Perseus Digital Library• Vincent VanGogh Letters• …and hundreds of smaller projects

• http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Projects/

The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada Project (LGLC)

The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada Project (LGLC)

The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada Project (LGLC)

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The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada Project (LGLC)

The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada Project (LGLC)

Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC)

http://www.cwrc.ca/

Authority Records & Resource Description Framework Documents

With thanks to Michelle Schwartz, Don McLeod, Syd Bauman, Julia Flanders, Susan Brown, Travis White, and Vicki Lemieux.

Keep in touch! @clkcrompton

See you soon?April 14th, 5:00pm. Emerging Visions Series, Green College. “Archive, Edition, or Research Environment? The Perils and Pleasures of Digital Scholarship” with Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Ryerson University).http://www.greencollege.ubc.ca/index/spotlight489.php

April 5th THATCamp Vancouver, SFU’s Halpern Centre and Bennett Library http://vancouver2014.thatcamp.org/