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!

Tagging Speech in Notes from Underground: a Journey Through Layers of Reality

When I first began working on using XML and TEI to tag Notes from Underground as an inexperienced coder, I was lulled into a false sense of security by the first half of the novel. Sure, I still had plenty of tagging difficulties, including a family of dentists, a mythological bird nobody had heard of, … Continue reading Tagging Speech in Notes from Underground: a Journey Through Layers of Reality