Electronic Text and Electronic Text Centers

David J. Birnbaum

In Progress

• "A proposal for encoding stemmata codicum in XML." To be presented as a poster at Extreme Markup 2007, Montreal.
• Metrical Analaysis of Russian Poetry
• Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters (with Anisava Miltenova, Andrej Bojadzhiev, and others).
• A. A. Zaliznjak's Russian Grammatical Dictionary (with Yulia Chugunova)
• Nineteenth-Century Russian Poetry Project
• Medieval Slavic Menologies (directed by Cynthia Vakareliyska)

Completed

• "Sometimes a table is only a table. And sometimes a row is a column." To be presented at Extreme Markup 2007, Montreal.
• "Interpretation Beyond Markup." With David Dubin. Presented at Extreme Markup 2004. HTML, PDF, and XML source available from Mulberry Technologies Extreme Markup Languages 2004 web site (http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/authors.html).
• The <xsl:key>s to Happiness. Unpublished. 2004.
• "The Relationship Between General and Specific DTDs: Criticizing TEI Critical Editions." Markup Languages: Theory and Practice. Vol. 3, No. 1. 17-53.
• "A TEI-Compatible Edition of the Rus' Primary Chronicle." Medieval Slavic Manuscripts and SGML: Problems and Perspectives, (Anisava Miltenova and David J. Birnbaum, ed), Sofia: Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Marin Drinov Publishing House. 2000.
• "Notes on TEI Support for Formal Public Identifiers." Unpublished. 1998.
• "Using the TEI Writing System Declaration (WSD)." With Mavis Cournane and Peter Flynn. Computers and the Humanities 33/1-2: 49-57 (April 1999). Supporting files only.
• Anomalous SGML
  • "The Problem of Anomalous Data: A Transformational Approach." With David A. Mundie. To appear in Markup Languages: Theory and Practice 1/4 (1999). Considerably revised version of the Markup Technologies conference paper.
  • "The Problem of Anomalous Data." Markup Technologies 1998 Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (plain text) (revised version of "In Defense of Invalid SGML")
  • "In Defense of Invalid SGML." 1997 ACH/ALLC Annual Meeting, Kingston, Ontario. (abstract)
• "Perspectives on Computer Programming for the Humanities." Text Technology 7/1, Spring, 1997, 1-17.
• Serving Non-Latin1 Web Documents in an Eight-Bit World. With Yulia Chugunova. Unpublished. 1996.
• First International Conference on Computer Processing of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 24-28 July 1995)
  • General Conference Report (Cynthia Vakareliyska, University of Oregon, reprinted from the newsletter of the Early Slavic Studies Association)
  • General Conference Report (Winfried Bader, German Bible Society)
  • The Necessity for Processing the Information in Slavic Medieval Manuscripts with SGML and TEI (Andrej Bojadzhiev and Anisava Miltenova, Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Foreword to the Proceedings of the conference (David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh)
  • Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Workshop report (David J. Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh, originally posted on the TEITEACH email list)
• University of Pittsburgh Electronic Text Project (ETP)

General

• Queens University Humanities Computing Repository
• Rutgers and Princeton University Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH)
  • Sample SGML texts, including part of Eugene Onegin (Panorama recommended)
  • The CETH FTP server at ceth.princeton.edu must be accessed with a non-web FTP client.
• Brown University Scholarly Technology Group (STG)
  • Scholarly Technology Resources
  • Refining our Notion of What Text Really Is: The Problem of Overlapping Hierarchies. (Allen Renear, Elli Mylonas, David Durand.) Challenges the authors' earlier claim that "text is an ordered hierarchy of content objects."
• University of Toronto Centre for Computing in the Humanities
• University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)
• Indiana University Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS)
• University of Pennsylvania Educational Technology Services
• Association for Computers and the Humanities ACHWeb
• Humanist discussion group
• Oxford University
  • Humanities Computing Unit
  • Comupters in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Textual Studies
  • Oxford Text Archive
    • Web Page (Oxford)
    • FTP (Oxford)
    • FTP (Michigan Mirror)
  • Center for Humanities Computing
  • The HUMBUL Gateway (International Resources for the Humanities)
  • British National Corpus
• Harry Hahne's Bible Analysis Software Page
• Computers and Ancient Languages (CAAL) Discussion List
• Michael Hart's Project Gutenberg

Multilingual

• Multext
• Multext-East
• Multext Tools, including:
  • MtScript (multilingual text editor, Solaris/Linux, freely distributable)
  • MtRecode: The Multext Character Translation Program
  • SgmlQL: SGML Query Language