Our first research article based on the encoded corpus was published last month in Slavic Review. It came out in the first special Digital Humanities cluster in the journal. This means we're officially the first scholars to have published a piece of code in the main journal for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies! This … Continue reading Our First Digital Dostoevsky Research Article!
Author: Kate Holland
Reencoding Crime and Punishment for Network Analysis
After finishing encoding our corpus at the end of last year, we’ve been working on speech network analysis. Network analysis is a method that creates a visualization of connections between elements such as characters, authors, or places within a given dataset. It’s a great method for analyzing patterns in texts like characters’ relationships to one … Continue reading Reencoding Crime and Punishment for Network Analysis
A Public TEI Edition!
After 5 years of work, our encoded TEI edition of seven of Dostoevsky's works is now publicly available on Github! The monumental process of encoding was carried out by Katherine Bowers, Kate Holland, Braxton Boyer, Lena Vasileva, Anastasiya Gordiychuk, Dmytro Ishchenko, Nadezhda Ivanova, Elijah Sciborowski, Veronika Sizova, Sydney Vermeersch, and Elizaveta Shershneva. Now that we … Continue reading A Public TEI Edition!
We’re Baaack!
We’re back! Actually we didn’t go anywhere and the project has been progressing well in the last couple of years although we’ve clearly been failing to update the blog. I’m writing this entry overlooking the Strait of Georgia from Katia’s office on the stunning UBC campus after doing our first in-person Digital Humanities Summer Institute … Continue reading We’re Baaack!
Spring Developments: A Summary
Digital Dostoevsky has had a very busy spring, with lots of significant project developments. First, we worked with a developer, Simon Wiles, to automate the tagging of our remaining corpus of five novels and one novella for structure as well as speech and names. Simon helped us to put empty TEI headers, <p> tags to … Continue reading Spring Developments: A Summary
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