Humanities computing projects and publications hosted on http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu

Location: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/resources/index.html
Maintained by: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu)
Last modified: 2011-03-23

About this site

Unless otherwise specified explicitly, all projects and publications on this server are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. URLs for projects hosted on this site may change during development, but the present page will always contain current project URLs, and the URL of this page itself will remain stable. All projects with active links are at least partially functional, although many are under development and therefore incomplete.

Contents

Humanities computing projects (linked to descriptions below)

• [Afanas′ev] The Annotated Afanas′ev library
• [Anticlaudianus] Concordance to Alain de Lille’s Anticlaudianus
• [Daniil] Daniel the Prisoner: A virtual florilegium
• [e-PVL] The e-PVL: An electronic edition of the Rus′ Primary Chronicle
• [Genealogy] Mapping history: Using technology to showcase medieval familial interconnectivity
• [Icons] Exploring Russian festal icons
• [Lazov] Unicode-compatible font for early Cyrillic studies
• [Lixačev] An electronic edition of the 1899 N. P. Lixačev watermark album
• [Menaion medieval] Unicode-compatible font for early Cyrillic studies
• [Menology] Electronic collation of medieval Slavic calendars of saints
• [OCS] Old Church Slavonic glossary
• [Paul] The Life of Paul the Simple
• [Pavlova] Karolina Pavlova’s Double Life
• [Repertorium] The Repertorium of Old Bulgarian literature and letters
• [Verse] Metrical analysis of Russian verse

Selected books, papers, and conference and workshop presentations on humanities computing

• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu) and Syd Bauman (syd_bauman@brown.edu). Workshop: Introduction to XSLT for digital humanities. http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/xslt_2011-03/.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu). “I say XSLT, you say XQuery: Let’s call the whole thing off.” Presented at Balisage 2010. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/2010_balisage/2010-07-31_birnbaum_balisage.pdf. (PDF of PowerPoint slides only.)
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu). “An XML user steps into, and escapes from, XPath quicksand.” Presented at Balisage 2009. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/2009_balisage/BalisageVol3-Birnbaum01.html.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu). “Sometimes a table is only a table, and sometimes a row is a column.” Presented at eXtreme Markup 2007. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/2007_xml-tables/extreme.html.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu). “A proposal for encoding stemmata codicum in XML.” Presented at eXtreme Markup 2007. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/2007_xml-stemma/2007_xml-stemma.html. Poster: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/2007_xml-stemma/stemma.pdf.
• David Dubin (ddubin@uiuc.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu). “Interpretation beyond markup.” Presented at eXtreme Markup 2004. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/2004_extreme/EML2004Dubin01.pdf.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu). “Computer-assisted analysis and study of the structure of mixed-content miscellanies.” Scripta & e-Scripta 1 (2003):15–54. First presented at the International congress of Slavists, Ljubljana, 2003. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/2003_ljubljana/2003_ljubljana_paper.pdf.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu), Anisava Miltenova (anmilten@yahoo.com), and Sarah Slevinski, eds. Computational approaches to the study of early and modern Slavic kanguages and texts. Proceedings of the Electronic description and edition of Slavic sources conference, 24–26 September 2002, Pomorie Bulgaria. Sofia: Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Boyan Penev Publishing Center. 2003. 328 pp. ISBN 954-8712-25-3. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/repertorium/2002_pomorie/CASEMSLT2003/CASEMSLT2003.html.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu). “The Relationship between general and specific DTDs: Criticizing TEI critical editions.” Markup languages: Theory & practice 3/1 (Winter 2001): 17-53. ISSN:1099-6621. Earlier version presented at the eXtreme Markup 2000 conference: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/sgml/extreme2000/birn0505.html
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu) and Anisava Miltenova (anmilten@yahoo.com), eds. Medieval Slavic nanuscripts and SGML: Problems and perspectives. Sofia: Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Marin Drinov Publishing House. 2000. 372 pp. ISBN 954-430-740-0. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~repertorium/miltenova_birnbaum_2000/MSMAS2000/MSMAS2000.html.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu). “A TEI-compatible edition of the Rus' primary chronicle.” In: Anisava Miltenova and David J. Birnbaum, ed. Medieval Slavic manuscripts and SGML: Problems and perspectives. Sofia: Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Marin Drinov Publishing House. 2000. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/sgml/pvl/article.html.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu) , Mavis Cournane and Peter Flynn. “Using the TEI writing system declaration (WSD).” Computers and the humanities 33/1–2 (1999): 49–57. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/articles/wsd1999.pdf.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu) and David Mundie (mundie@anthus.com). “The Problem of anomalous data: A Transformational approach.” Markup languages: Theory & practice 1/4 (September 1999): 1–19. ISSN:1099-6621. Preprint: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/sgml/invalid.html
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu) and Lawrence Adams. “Perspectives on computer programming for the humanities.” Text technology 7/1 (Spring 1997): 1–17. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/rhyme/tt.html.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu). “Standardizing characters, glyphs, and SGML entities for encoding early Cyrillic writing.” Computer standards & interfaces 18 (1996): 201–52. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/articles/csi1996.pdf.
• David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu), Andrej Bojadžiev aboy@slav.uni-sofia.bg), Milena Dobreva, and Anisava Miltenova (anmilten@yahoo.com).) Proceedings of the First international conference on computer processing of medieval Slavic manuscripts, Blagoevgrad, 1995. Sofia: Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Marin Drinov Publishing House. 1995. 336 pp. ISBN 954-430-417-7. http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~repertorium/1995_blagoevgrad/CPMSM1995/CPMSM1995.html.

About the projects

[Afanas′ev] The Annotated Afanas′ev library

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/tales/aa/
Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt+tales@pitt.edu) and David Galloway (galloway@hws.edu), with the assistance of Audrey Wood
Synopsis: Selected Russian fairy tales from the Aleksandr Afanas′ev collection with glosses and linguistic and cultural annotation. Designed to assist students in learning to read Russian fairy tales in the original Russian.

[Anticlaudianus] Concordance to Alain de Lille’s Anticlaudianus

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu:8080/exist/acl/search.html
Developers: Danuta Shanzer (shanzer@illinois.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu)
Synposis: Online concordance of Alain de Lille’s (Alanus ab insulis) allegorical-philosophical epic, the Anticlaudianus.

[Daniil] Daniel the Prisoner: A virtual florilegium

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/zatochnik/
Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu), Robert Romanchuk (rromanch@mailer.fsu.edu) and Matthew Herrington
Synopsis: An XML-based medieval florilegium. Electronic edition of the Slovo i molenie Daniila Zatočnika.

[e-PVL] The e-PVL: An electronic edition of the Rus′ Primary Chronicle

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/pvl/
Developers: Donald Ostrowski (don@wjh.harvard.edu), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu), and Horace G. Lunt
Synopsis: Electronic edition of the Rus′ Primary Chronicle (Povest′ vremennykh let). Read the text and examine manuscript variants.

[Icons] Exploring Russian festal icons

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/2008_draskoczy-icon/original/00_main.html
Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu), Erin Alpert, Irina Anisimova, Hillary Brevig, Alyssa DeBlasio, Julie Draskoczy, Olga Klimova, and Elise Thorsen
Synopsis: Utility for studying the structure of Russian festal icons.

[Genealogy] Mapping history: Using technology to showcase medieval familial interconnectivity

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu:8080/exist/genealogy/genealogy-form.xql
Developers: Christian Raffensperger (craffensperger@wittenberg.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu)
Synopsis: XML database for examining Riurikid dynastic marriages.

[Lazov] Font for early Slavic studies

URL: (currently off line)
Developers: Rumjan Lazov and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu)
Synopsis: Unicode-compatible font for early Cyrillic. Original design by Rumjan Lazov, updated for Unicode 5.1 compatibility by David J. Birnbaum.

[Lixačev] An electronic edition of the 1899 N. P. Lixačev watermark album

URL: (currently off line)
Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu), Roger Boyle (r.d.boyle@leeds.ac.uk), Quinn Dombrowski (quinnd@uchicago.edu), Predrag Matejić (matejic.1@osu.edu), and Kia Ng (k.c.ng@leeds.ac.uk)
Synopsis: Electronic edition of N. P. Lixačev’s 1899 watermark album.

[Menaion medieval] Font for early Slavic studies

URL: (currently off line)
Developers: Viktor Baranov and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu)
Synopsis: Unicode-compatible font for early Cyrillic. Design by Viktor Baranov, remapped for Unicode compatibility by David J. Birnbaum.

[Menology] Electronic collation of medieval Slavic calendars of saints

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu:8080/exist/menology/
Developers: Cynthia Vakareliyska (vakarel@uoregon.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu)
Synopsis: A corpus of medieval Slavic and Greek calendars of saints that can be searched according to specific attributes of the manuscripts themselves and the commemorations they contain. The goal is to provide scholars with a large but manageable corpus of data for comparative study of calendar traditions, determination of the relationships between and among calendars, and analysis of any individual calendar.

[OCS] Old Church Slavonic glossary

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu:8080/exist/ocs/glossary.html
Developers: Oscar Swan (swan@pitt.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu)
Synopsis: Look up words in a glossary of Old Church Slavonic.

[Paul] The Life of Paul the Simple

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu:8080/exist/paul/data/paul_main.html
Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu), Erin Alpert, Hillary Brevig, Drew Chapman, Alyssa DeBlasio, Julie Draskoczy, Yelena Forrester, Olga Klimova, Michelle Kuhn, Raffaele Ruggiero, Oscar Swan, and Elise Thorsen
Synopsis: The “Life of Paul the Simple” from the Old Church Slavonic Codex Suprasliensis with linguistic commentary.

[Pavlova] Karolina Pavlova’s Double life

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/pavlova/
Developers: Sibelan E. S. Forrester (sforres1@swarthmore.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu)
Synopsis: Tools for studying Karolina Pavlova’s Double life.

[Repertorium] The Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/repertorium/
Developers: Anisava Miltenova (Anisava Miltenova), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu), and Andrej Bojadžiev (aboy@slav.uni-sofia.bg). For a list of additional participants see http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/repertorium/#participants
Synopsis: An archive of XML-encoded descriptions of medieval Slavic manuscript materials and research tools intended to aid in their study.

[Verse] Metrical analysis of Russian verse

URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/tales/aa/verse/
Developer: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@pitt.edu)
Synopsis: Computer-generated representations of the metrical structure of selected Russian poetry.