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Elisa Beshero-Bondar

@epyllia.bsky.social

Adventurer in Digital Humanities. Builds, analyzes, visualizes, activates w/ #TEI and #XSLT. TEI Technical Council Chair, 2023–. Prof of DH | Program Chair of DIGIT at Penn State Behrend (she/they) Mastodon: epyllia@indieweb.social

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Scholarships & Bursaries Ray Siemens DHSI Bursaries In honour of DHSI Founder and Director Emeritus Ray Siemens we offer 4 bursaries (2 for Week 1 and 2 for Week 2 of DHSI 2026), reserved for students. These scholarships offe...

DHSI 2026 Scholarship Applications due by 15 February! dhsi.org/scholarships/ We hope you enroll and check out our course in week 2!

05.02.2026 03:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@teiconsortium.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social

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Instructors: Elisa Beshero-Bondar and David J. Birnbaum a repository for materials related to teaching and writing on technologies of up-conversion and project development with the XML family of languages, featuring regex, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and Schematr...

Everyone's learning AI. But who's teaching data prep, output validation, and sustainable infrastructure? Our DHSI course Week 2 June 15-19: "Processing Your XML/TEI" teaches you XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—skills to apply WITH AI tools on your terms. Future-proof your work.
bit.ly/dhsi-xpath

05.02.2026 03:01 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 3
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This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

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DHSI Processing XML Feature A presentation created with Slides.

Ready to go for the #MLA26 Session 1 tomorrow morning! I'm part of the DHSI workshop panel, talking about our course for June 2026 Week 2, + WHY we care about processing TEI / XML in the age of AI, too. @teiconsortium.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social
slides.com/elisabeshero...

07.01.2026 20:35 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for the detailed review! I've been exploring AI in the context of processing informational tree structures (XML and JSON documents) as a coding aid and maybe found something similar: a problem (I think in LLMs under the hood) with coping w/ nested hierarchies, + even simple markup of "...".

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Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

Here's an article for our students! I remember when the WWW, hypertext links, + browsers were new, but to my students it's always been there...The article tells of the web's origins in context w/ the era of Big Tech's AI. That context is urgent for us all just now.
web.archive.org/web/20251001...

06.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We digital humanities people know the TEI as a “scholarly technology” with enormous thanks to @juliaflanders.bsky.social and our community working together intelligently, cooperatively, and imaginatively over the years. We are the #TEI!

19.09.2025 15:34 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Our closing keynote for #TEI2025 is @juliaflanders.bsky.social , who speaks earnestly of TEI’s ongoing relevance in an ethical formulation of our technologies and data structures.

19.09.2025 15:15 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Next TEI Conference: August 10–15, 2026, Vancouver, BC Canada.
@teiconsortium.bsky.social

19.09.2025 15:10 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

💻The #EpiDoc maintainers will be hosting a monthly online drop-in session (1 hour per month).
📨 Please feel free to come with questions, encoding difficulties, or just to listen in on the conversation.
📅The next session is Wednesday, October 22: 17:00 BST = 18:00 CEST = 19:00 EEST = 12:00 EDT

19.09.2025 10:04 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
Text Encoding Initiative

Join the TEI, they said. (For me? My research certainly became more worldly wise.) We are the TEI, indeed—we have a keynote about that coming up. www.tei-c.org

19.09.2025 13:52 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Joey Takeda introduces the TEI 2026 Conference in Vancouver !

Joey Takeda introduces the TEI 2026 Conference in Vancouver !

Text Encoding is an ongoing Initiative and our annual conference is for all of us who care about “yesterday’s information tomorrow.”—now including born-digital media! Join us as a member! And come to the 2026 TEI Conference in Vancouver! #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social @joeytakeda.bsky.social

19.09.2025 13:46 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

@teiconsortium.bsky.social

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Our opening keynote at TEI 2025

Our opening keynote at TEI 2025

Close up of slide calling for greater recognition for digital scholarly editing

Close up of slide calling for greater recognition for digital scholarly editing

17.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

At #TEI2025 the opening keynote Jadwiga Kita-Huber emphasizes the need for universities in Poland to recognize digital scholarly editions as research for the faculty and scholarly community! This is serious research—and this needs to be respected!

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Standing to the side, listening with amusement, is our host and eminent stylometer, Jan Rybicki.

17.09.2025 15:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here, @djakacki.bsky.social and I collaborate in a big thank you statement to the hosts and supporters of #digitalhumanities at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social from the
@teiconsortium.bsky.social . We love being here in Kraków for TEI 2025!

17.09.2025 15:18 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I'm going to guess that the XSLT is run before posting to the website because that's how most of my own projects work. But client-side XSLT in the browser would be an excellent possibility!

07.09.2025 18:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Lol...😅🎶🤣

16.08.2025 14:53 — 👍 2175    🔁 192    💬 122    📌 25

#digitalhumanities #dh

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baby olinguito

baby olinguito

On 2025-08-15, The #TEI released TEI Guidelines version 4.10.0, "The Olinguito Release” + version 7.59.0 of the TEI Stylesheets. Release notes: www.tei-c.org/release/doc/...
On olinguitos: www.si.edu/stories/olin...

mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/13/1101oling...

@teiconsortium.bsky.social

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Can this be enough?

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At #dh2025 @roopikarisam.bsky.social emphasizes an ethic of care at the heart of minimal computing at every level of our lives’ work in digital humanities. 💜

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A gift of sneakers to just the right person

A gift of sneakers to just the right person

Celebrating the ADHO leadership of Michael Eberle Sinatra fittingly with an iconic gift!

18.07.2025 17:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea

Locations for next ADHO conferences:
2026 : Daejeon, South Korea
2027: Galway, Ireland
2028: Capetown, South Africa !

dh2026.adho.org

#dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028

18.07.2025 17:24 — 👍 28    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 2

Likewise, sorry! This conference is enormous!

16.07.2025 23:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DIGIT AI for Localized TEI/XML Assistance A presentation about a small explainable AI project to fine-tune a language model with a graph RAG built with the TEI Guidelines.

We are so excited to be presenting shortly at #dh2025 on making a small explainable AI model “DigitAI” w/ our knowledge graph made from the #TEI Guidelines, and the declarative power of XSLT 3 (and 4) in work like this! Here are our slides!
1. bit.ly/digitai-dh25
2. bit.ly/xslt-2025

16.07.2025 13:08 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Delighted to be learning from Javier Cha (opening keynote at #DH2025) about the RAG modeling we’re exploring now! I love how he tracks the progress from Cytoscape network viz to neo4j graph modeling in small systems for humanities data!

15.07.2025 18:34 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Excited to learn the latest about Voyant/Spyral the #dh2025 workshops!

14.07.2025 13:28 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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