Digital Demonstrations

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Digital Restoration Drama

Lauren Liebe

Digital Restoration Drama (DRD) is an open-access database of play texts from the English Restoration. This period is critically understudied and often overlooked in its position between Renaissance drama and the eighteenth century. From this lack of study, ....

FairCopy: A Word Processor for the Digital Humanities

Nick Laiacona

FairCopy is a specialized word processor for studying manuscripts and historical texts. It gives scholars a desktop editing environment to create TEI encoded texts without writing XML code. In this recorded presentation, we will demonstrate the features and functionality of this software. ...

HistSex: Surfacing Histories & Sexualities

Bri Watson

HistSex’s 50 Years On, Many Years Past is an open-source, freely-available digital resource and collection focused on the history of sexuality. It aims to both support the ongoing work of historians and to fill a representational need rooted in the realities and histories of LGBTQIA+ sexual identity, ...

New Variorum Shakespeare at Texas A&M

Laura Mandell and Katayoun Torabi

The Modern Language Association awarded Texas A&M a grant to publish digitally and make available open access the New Variorum Shakespeare, "New" when the first edition in the series was published in 1873! Working with designer Anne Burdick and programmer Bryan Tarpley, ....

The United States of Surveillance

Sebastian Rodriguez

With the help of Congress and a secret court, President George W. Bush planted the seed for what would become a systemic abuse of law and power in the United States. Since the attacks on September 11, a barrage of laws and programs have drastically expanded the country's digital surveillance practices. ...

High-Fidelity Archives Radio: Beats to Migrate To

Elizabeth-Anne Johnson

The University of Calgary Archives and Special Collections, like most memory institutions, stewards many collections that contain born-digital material. Over the past two years, we have been developing workflows for discovering, migrating, and preserving this material. ...