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The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project is finally out in its final version!!
Thank you to a brilliant team at LEMDO
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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 (magazine) - Wikipedia

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

#RSVP2025

Making science accessible through political uncertainty - UVic News In the digital age, data is the lifeblood of research and discovery. Too much research remains hidden behind paywalls. As the research community calls for

@uvic.ca scholars—including @uvichcmc.bsky.social director @janellejenstad.bsky.social—are using digital tools to make science accessible through political uncertainty.

#DigitalHumanities #LibraryScience

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

Poster for Dr. Sarah Neville's talk. Text reads: Renaissance herbals—sixteenth and seventeenth century printed guides to plants, herbs, and trees, sometimes beautifully illustrated—were among the best-sellers in their time. Yet, the most popular of these books were the least likely to survive readers, making them paradoxically obscure. This talk will explore the phenomenon of the English herbal, showing how botanical knowledge in print came to be seen as a valuable commodity that early modern readers were eager to buy. Dr. Neville is jointly appointed in English and in Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at Ohio State University. She specializes in early modern English literature, bibliography, theories of textuality, and Shakespeare in performance, chiefly examining the ways that authority is negotiated in print, digital and live media. She is an Assistant Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-17), Co-Coordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions and the New Internet Shakespeare Editions, and General Textual Editor for Linked Early Modern Drama Online. Neville’s latest book, Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany (Cambridge, 2022), demonstrates the ways that printers and booksellers of herbals enabled the construction of scientific and medical authority in early modern England. She is currently editing 2 Henry VI for the Arden Shakespeare. UVic’s Public Lectures Series features accomplished individuals from a vast array of academic and research endeavours. As host of this lecture series, UVic continues its commitment to making a vital impact on people, places, and the planet. For disability accommodation call 250-721-6271

📣 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. 📚📚

George, the University of Victoria resident peacock, sits perched on a concrete wall.

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

The Unessay Competition Express your research with complete freedom of form.

#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 Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World: in conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence?

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
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Research organizations and universities in Canada part 2
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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 Lon Academic libraries and archives struggle to preserve Digital Humanities (DH) projects due to the divide between faculty expectations and operational realities

"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...

Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women: Medieval Anglo Jewish Women: Home Page

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
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We'll see you back again on Tuesday!

A critical path model made using sticky notes on a whiteboard with arrows drawn between each sticky note in a large tree.

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....