The Technical Council of @teiconsortium.bsky.social discussing the issues raised by #TEI community prior to the #tei2025 conference @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social. Thank you to the excellent local organisers for accommodating the Technical Council and organising such a wonderful conference.

Talks during day 1 of the Kula: Library Futures Academy launch were inspiring. Looking forward to day 2!

The HCMC is proud to be supporting the CICR project, which addresses historical injustices in higher education settings focusing on Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. They have a pop-up exhibition in the lobby of the McPherson Library until Sept 14. Come check it out! cicr.uvic.ca

The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project is finally out in its final version!! Thank you to a brilliant team at LEMDO bsky.app/profile/uvic...

Next up is Alison Chapman presenting on the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry (DVPP, based at @uvichcmc.bsky.social) 32% of all DVPP poems are overtly related to another poem She argues that periodicals with high cultural prestige invest in networks of poems #RSVP2025 #BookHistory

- *Once a Week* had gorgeously illustrated monthly poems ("January", "February", etc.) creating a multi-authored and multi-illustrated series #RSVP2025

@uvic.ca scholars—including @uvichcmc.bsky.social director @janellejenstad.bsky.social—are using digital tools to make science accessible through political uncertainty. #DigitalHumanities #LibraryScience 🔗 news.uvic.ca/2025/making-...

Linked Early Modern Drama is on Bluesky! We are housed at @uvic.ca and supported by @uvichumanities.bsky.social. #earlyModernDrama #Shakespeare #digitalEditions #editing #textEncoding

📣 Upcoming Lansdowne public lecture! 📣 In "Renaissance Botany and the Landscapes of Early Printed Books," LEMDO General Textual Editor Dr. Sarah Neville will be speaking on English herbals of the 16th-17th C. 🌱🌿📚 Date: Monday, March 10 Time: 7 pm Where: Clearihue Building A207 Cost: Free!

HCMC will be closed February 17 for Family Day. We will be open again starting February 18 for the rest of reading week. 📚📚

The University of Victoria is officially on Bluesky! What better way to kick things off than with George, our widely adored (though unofficial) mascot.

#HumanitiesWeek has been a blast! We hope you'll join our final event, the annual Unessay Competition, tonight @ 6:30 PST (online). Students will share their research with complete freedom of form, and you'll get to vote on your favourite works! Register: events.uvic.ca/humanities/e...

HCMC developer Martin Holmes has rescued and rebuilt the British Book Trade Index (BBTI) project as a static, Endings-compliant site! 📚🧐 Check it out at hcmc.uvic.ca/project/bbti... You can also find info about the BBTI and links to alternatives for accessing its dataset at bbti.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A snow day doesn't need to stop you from joining the first event of #HumanitiesWeek tonight! ❄️ Join us online for a discussion with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay TONIGHT, February 4 @ 5PM PST, online over Zoom! Register to get the link: events.uvic.ca/humanities/e...

HCMC is closed today due to the winter weather conditions. ☃️❄️

HCMC is delighted to welcome Humanities Co-op student Alexandria Brooks. Based in HCMC, Alex is working for the Past Wrongs Future Choices Archives Cluster.

Looking for Canadian #research organizations and universities? Follow and share our starter packs, and let us know if you'd like to be added! Research organizations and universities in Canada part 1 go.bsky.app/DjqbMNB Research organizations and universities in Canada part 2 go.bsky.app/2i7Qi3E

You're invited to join us for the 7th annual #HumanitiesWeek, featuring four events on the theme Diaspora Stories. Explore exile and return, home and community, empire and loss, and global stories of complex identities and imperial legacies. Details: hcmc.uvic.ca/humanitieswe...

Looking back at the old year and ahead to the New Year! Here's Emma in Special Collections photographing Arthur Rackham's watercolour of "Fafner Guarding Alberich's Ring" in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Can you spot the dragon? #fafner #alberich #arthurrackhamillustration #uvic

Our winter workstation schedule: -Dec. 16-20: Closed for Professional Development -Dec. 23-24: Open for bookings! -Dec. 25-Jan. 1: Closed for UVic's winter break -Jan. 2: Open for the new semester!

"Preserving Digital Humanities Projects Using Principles of Digital Longevity" has just been published in The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities. Many thanks to @gworthey.bsky.social & Isabel Galina Russell, eds. extraordinaire! doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Endings Principle of the Month: 4.2 No boutique or fashionable technologies: use only standards with support across all platforms, whose long-term viability is assured. Our choices are HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. Interested in web standards for your #DH project? See endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

Endings Principle of the Month: 4.1 No dependence on server-side software: build a static website with no databases, no PHP, no Python. For more on how your processing can contribute to the longevity of your #DH project, visit endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

Endings Principle of the Month: 3.3 Code is contingent: while code is not expected to have significant longevity, wherever possible, all code should follow Endings principles for data and products. For more on making #DigitalHumanities projects last longer, visit endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

Hello new followers! 👋 I thought you might be interested in this site I made and continue to develop with the fantastic team @uvichcmc.bsky.social. Please explore. majw.uvic.ca

Endings Principle of the Month: 3.2 Continuous integration: any change to the source data requires an entire rebuild of the site (triggered automatically where possible). Want to learn more making your #DigitalHumanities project last longer? Check out endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

Fall semester is coming up quickly, which means it's time for all the UVic digital humanists to get their September HCMC bookings in!! 🍂🍂📚 Connect with us to reserve your space at an HCMC workstation.

Endings Principle of the Month: 3.1 Relentless validation: all processing includes validation/linting of all inputs and outputs Need a little more validation in your #DigitalHumanities life? Check out endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

Reminder to everyone that uses lab computers in HCMC: We will be closed next Monday, Aug. 5 for BC Day ⛱️🚵‍♂️☀️ We'll see you back again on Tuesday!

This week in HCMC: We've gone old-school with our planning and worked with the LEMDO project management team to map out a critical path model on one of our whiteboards. We may need more whiteboard space 😅

The Map of Early Modern London is a project mapping London as Shakespeare knew it. MoEML uses a digital edition of the c.1561 Agas Map to look at how places and spaces were used in early modern London. Want to see the site in action? Go to mapoflondon.uvic.ca

Endings Principle of the Month: 2.2 All rights and intellectual property should be clearly documented Looking for more about Endings-compliant #DigitalHumanities? Go to endings.uvic.ca/prin...

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month!🏳️‍🌈 One thing that we love about #DH is the chance to explore different identities and queerness in the humanities. DVPP’s student-selected anthology of Queer Poetry is a great example of this! Check it out at dvpp.uvic.ca/queerPoetry....

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! We are grateful today and every day to be working with Indigenous peoples and humanities researchers on projects that celebrate Indigenous histories, cultures, and languages.

Linked Early Modern Drama Online is offering a technical webinar at 8 am PDT, Thurs, Jn 12. Topics: (1) LEMDO's Endings-compliant editions/anthologies; and (2) "Making Editions Accessible." Earn credit for CC:DH/HN certificate. #DH #DigiHums Sign-up link: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/8YQGSVT.

Disappointed you missed #WorldOceansDay over the weekend? You can still take a moment to reflect on the shared history and future of gray whales and people by browsing the DevilFish Project: www.devilfish.site/index.html Photo by Venti Views on Unsplash (unsplash.com/@ventiviews)

Endings Principle of the Month: 2.1 Data models, including field names, descriptions, and controlled values, should be clearly documented in a static document that is maintained with the data and forms part of the products. More on sustainable #DigitalHumanities at endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

Did you know? HCMC has 12 bookable workstations for UVic humanities researchers and their assistants! Contact us to book your spot: www.uvic.ca/humanities/h...

Looking for a bit of 🔥drama🔥 to spice up your Tuesday? 👀 Get your fill by checking out the plays of the Queen's Men Editions! 🎭 You can read the texts and watch the full plays at lemdo.uvic.ca/qme/editions...

Check out what is new on MyNDIR (myndir.uvic.ca)! Thank you @uvichcmc.bsky.social for your assistance with another update 🤓

Congratulations to @myndir.bsky.social on another successful release of the MyNDIR website! This release includes an illustrated title for Ragnarok, a number of PDFs, and links to the project's socials. Check out this awesome resource at myndir.uvic.ca

Did you know that HCMC's predecessor, the Language Centre, periodically published newsletters? Drop by HCMC for a blast from the past and to read the latest and greatest in "humanities computing" news from 1994-1996!

Endings Principle of the Month: 1.3 Data is continually subject to validation and diagnostic analysis. Check out other principles for #DigitalHumanities at endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

Happy #WorldBookDay from our shelves to yours!

✨How many Victorian items can you spot in this illustration of "The Dying Viking"?✨ Thomas Morten's illustration is from the Victorian periodical Once a Week. Want to know more? 🤓 Link in bio! #thedyingviking #viking #norsemythology #thomasmorten #georgethornbury #victorianperiodicals #onceaweek

Congratulations to the three HCMC PIs who have been awarded SSHRC Insight Grants! Project information in the thread 🧵 1/4

Curious about women illustrators of the Victorian period? Check out DVPP's index of women who illustrated the periodical poetry of the era! 👀: dvpp.uvic.ca/womenIllustr...

Great news for those who love #manuscripts or #Shakespeare: the Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project is now available! This release includes editions and facsimiles of Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth. 👀: lemdo.uvic.ca/douai 📷: Douai MS 787, Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Endings Principle of the Month: 1.2 Data is subject to version control. Build your principled #DigitalHumanities skill set by checking out endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

MAJW is a #DigitalHumanities project that compiles and shares information about Jewish women living in medieval England. This work is a valuable resource to support ongoing interdisciplinary research. Learn more about the lives of Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women at majw.uvic.ca 🧵: 1/2