February 12, 2015

Upcoming events: Markup Reading Group, February 19th at 4pm, reading "Drawing Inferences on the Basis of Markup" (email me if you would like the .pdf of this article and feel free to invite anyone who might be interested)

Regular Expressions Mini-Workshop, February 26th at 2pm, in 422 Snell Library (taking the place of our regular encoding meeting)

DissCo, hopefully during the last week in February, look out for some potential dates on the DSGGrad Slack site

WWP Documentary: John Melson is working on a documentary of the WWP! If you have any exciting ideas for the documentary, please add them to the Ideas! Trello board. We're also hoping to set up interviews with anyone who wants to be involved in the documentary, hopefully later this term.

Trello Voting: The Ideas! board now has voting, so you can vote for any ideas that you think we should make high priorities (this should be especially helpful for future mini-workshops).

New encoding on <quote>: Sarah Stanley brought in an example of a test case for our new use of @type "paraphrase" from davies.blessing. In this case, Davies rearranged word order and substituted an equivalent term in a renditionally distinct phrase from the Geneva Bible. In our discussions, we decided that the deliberate nature of these changes (in contrast with the kinds of less intentional changes that result from earlier scholarly and citational practices) made this a good candidate for "paraphrase." We also decided to add another value to @type: "parody." Please continue to bring potential uses of this encoding to our meetings, so we can develop a bank of examples and establish a threshold for when this encoding is appropriate.

Subversion: Syd and Sarah Stanley have successfully relocated our Subversion repository on the eight encoding computers, so you can now update and commit on these as usual. If you are encoding on your own computer, relocating is actually a fairly straightforward process; Syd will be sending out more details and instructions so you can relocate the repository yourself or you can just keep on encoding as you have been and ask Sarah, me, or Syd to set you up some time next week.