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Maintained by: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 Unported License] About this site: obdurodon.org is the development platform for David J. Birnbaum’s digital humanities projects.

Digital humanities projects hosted on obdurodon.org

The annotated Afanas′ev library ↴
URL: http://aal.obdurodon.org Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) and David Galloway (galloway@hws.edu), with the assistance of Audrey Wood and Maria Rogers Synopsis: Selected Russian fairy tales from the Aleksandr Afanas′ev collection with glosses and linguistic and cultural annotation. Designed to assist students in learning to read Russian fairy tales in the original Russian.
Concordance to Alain de Lille’s Anticlaudianus ↴
Slovo-ASO: towards a digital library of South Slavic manuscripts ↴
URL: http://aso.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Anisava Miltenova (amiltenova@gmail.com). For a list of additional participants see the link at http://slovo-aso.cl.bas.bg/Synopsis: An archive of 140 brief XML-encoded descriptions of medieval Slavic manuscripts.
Bdinski sbornik ↴
URL: http://bdinski.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: Dieter Stern (dieter.stern@ugent.be), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Michel de Dobbeleer (michel.dedobbeleer@ugent.be), Alexandre Popowycz (alexandre.popowycz@ugent.be), and Lara Sels (lara.sels@ugent.be) Synopsis: Digital edition of the Middle Bulgarian Bdinski sbornik
Daniel the Prisoner: A virtual florilegium ↴
URL: http://zatochnik.obdurodon.org Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Robert Romanchuk (rromanchuk@fsu.edu), and Matthew Herrington Synopsis: An XML-based medieval florilegium. Electronic edition of the Slovo i molenie Daniila Zatočnika.
Digenis Akritis: Greek and Slavic ↴
URL: http://digenis.obdurodon.org Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) and Robert Romanchuk (rromanchuk@fsu.edu), assisted by Thuy-Linh Pham, Shaimaa Khanam, and Simon Prado Synopsis: Electronic edition of parts of Digenis Akritis.
Digital humanities: Computational methods in the humanities ↴
URL: http://dh.obdurodon.org Developer: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: Materials for a course entitled “Computational methods in the humanities.”
The e-PVL: An electronic edition of the Rus′ primary chronicle ↴
URL: http://pvl.obdurodon.org Developers: Donald Ostrowski (don@wjh.harvard.edu), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), and Horace G. LuntSynopsis: Electronic edition of the Rus′ Primary Chronicle (Povest′ vremennyx let). Read the text and examine manuscript variants.
Exploring Russian festal icons ↴
Exploring speech in Russian fairy tales ↴
URL: http://ft.obdurodon.orgDeveloper: Gabrielle Kirilloff (gkirilloff@gmail.com) Synopsis: Employs digital humanities techniques to analyze the use of speech in Russian fairy tales from the Afanas′ev collection.
Galician-Portuguese secular lyric: philology and historical linguistics ↴
URL: http://gl-pt.obdurodon.orgDeveloper: Helena Bermúdez Sabel (helena.bermudez@usc.es) Synopsis: The goal of this project is to develop a digital edition which will shed light on the manuscript transmission of medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry, and particularly on linguistic textual variation, which may be crucial for determining the origin of the manuscript tradition.
Rusian genealogy: using technology to showcase medieval familial interconnectivity ↴
URL: http://genealogy.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: Christian Raffensperger (craffensperger@wittenberg.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: XML database for examining Riurikid dynastic marriages.
Lazov font for early Slavic studies ↴
An electronic edition of the 1899 N. P. Lixačev watermark album ↴
Menaion medieval font for early Slavic studies ↴
Electronic collation of medieval Slavic calendars of saints ↴
URL: http://menology.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: Cynthia Vakareliyska (vakarel@uoregon.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: A corpus of medieval Slavic and Greek calendars of saints that can be searched according to specific attributes of the manuscripts themselves and the commemorations they contain. The goal is to provide scholars with a large but manageable corpus of data for comparative study of calendar traditions, determination of the relationships between and among calendars, and analysis of any individual calendar.
Old Church Slavonic glossary ↴
The life of Paul the Simple from the Codex Suprasliensis ↴
URL: http://paul.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Erin Alpert, Hillary Brevig, Drew Chapman, Alyssa DeBlasio, Julie Draskoczy, Yelena Forrester, Olga Klimova, Michelle Kuhn, Raffaele Ruggiero, Oscar Swan, and Elise ThorsenSynopsis: The “life of Paul the Simple” from the Old Church Slavonic Codex Suprasliensis with linguistic commentary, parallel Greek text, and a new English translation.
Karolina Pavlova’s Double life ↴
URL: http://pavlova.obdurodon.org Developers: Sibelan E. S. Forrester (sforres1@swarthmore.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: Tools for studying Karolina Pavlova’s 1848 sketch Двойная жизнь (Double life).
The repertorium of old Bulgarian literature and letters ↴
URL: http://repertorium.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Andrej Bojadžiev (aboyadzhiev@gmail.com), Anisava Miltenova (amiltenova@gmail.com), and Diljana Radoslavova (radoslad@yahoo.com). For a list of additional participants see http://obdurodon.org/repertorium/history.html#participantsSynopsis: An archive of XML-encoded descriptions of medieval Slavic manuscript materials and research tools intended to aid in their study.
Meter, rhythm, rhyme: the computationally assisted analysis of formal features in Russian poetry ↴
URL: http://poetry.obdurodon.org Developers: Elise Thorsen (enthorsen@gmail.com) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: Explorations in the machine-assisted formal analysis of Russian verse
Codex Suprasliensis ↴
URL: http://suprasliensis.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: Anisava Miltenova (amiltenova@gmail.com), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: Digital edition of the Old Church Slavonic Codex Suprasliensis
Tale of the fall of Constantinople ↴
URL: http://arranz.obdurodon.orgDeveloper: Isabel Arranz del Riego (isaarranz@gmail.com) Synopsis: Digital edition of the Повесть о взятии Царьграда (Tale of the fall of Constantinople)
Twitter register variation ↴
URL: http://twitter.obdurodon.orgDeveloper: Janis Chinn (janis.chinn@gmail.com) Synopsis: Corpus-based study of linguistic properties of English-language tweets.

Institutes and workshops

Make your edition: models and methods for digital textual scholarship, Pittsburgh, PA, 2017-07) ↴
URL: https://github.com/Pittsburgh-NEH-Institute/Institute-Materials-2017 Developers: Tara Andrews (andrews@univie.ac.at), Eleanor (Kyri) Bennett (ekb19@pitt.edu), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Hugh Cayless (philomousos@gmail.com) Ronald Haentjens Dekker (ronald.dekker@huygens.knaw.nl), Na-Rae Han (Na-Rae Han), Gabrielle (Gabi) Keane (gabikeane@pitt.edu), Mike Kestemont (mike.kestemont@gmail.com), Leif-Jöran Olsson (leif-joran.olsson@svenska.gu.se), and Kaylen Sanders (kaylensanders@pitt.edu). Synopsis: Three-week NEH-sponsored Institute in Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities.
DiXiT coding and collation workshop (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016-09) ↴
URL: https://github.com/DiXiT-eu/collatex-tutorial Developers: Tara Andrews (andrews@univie.ac.at), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Elli Bleeker (elli.bleeker@uantwerpen.be), Ronald Haentjens Dekker (ronald.dekker@huygens.knaw.nl), Leif-Jöran Olsson (leif-joran.olsson@svenska.gu.se), Catherine Smith (c.j.smith@bham.ac.uk), Elena Spadini (elena.spadini@huygens.knaw.nl), and Joris van Zundert (joris.van.zundert@huygens.knaw.nl). Synopsis: Three-day workshop on the theory and practice of machine-assisted collation, with an intensive introduction to the open source CollateX collation program.
XML and TEI for Slavic philology (Vilnius, Lithuania, 2016-08) ↴
URL: http://vilnius.obdurodon.org Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) and Lou Burnard (lou,burnard@gmail.com) Synopsis: Four half-day workshop sessions on the use of TEI XML for editing and publishing medieval manuscript materials.
Computer-supported collation with CollateX (Sydney, Australia, 2015-06) ↴
URL: http://collatex.obdurodon.org Developers: Tara Andrews (tara.andrews@kps.unibe.ch), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), Ronald Haentjens Dekker (ronald.dekker@huygens.knaw.nl), Leif-Jöran Olsson (leif-joran.olsson@svenska.gu.se), and Joris van Zundert (joris.van.zundert@huygens.knaw.nl) Synopsis: One-day workshop on text collation with CollateX.
XML and TEI for Slavic philology (Varna, Bulgaria, 2014-09) ↴
URL: http://varna.obdurodon.org Developers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) and Andrej Bojadžiev (aboy@uni-sofia.bg) Synopsis: Three half-day workshop sessions on the use of TEI XML for editing and publishing medieval manuscript materials.
Taking TEI further: transforming and publishing TEI data: XSLT for digital humanities (Boston, MA, 2014-03) ↴
URL: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/publishing_2014-03/ Developers: Syd Bauman (s.bauman@neu.edu), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), and Julia Flanders (j.flanders@neu.edu) Synopsis: XSLT is a crucial tool for those working with the TEI, both as a key part of any XML publication system and also as a technology for manipulating and managing XML data. As a programming language that can be used to transform XML data into other formats, it is immensely powerful and also comparatively approachable for those already familiar with XML. For individual scholars and librarians (who may not have access to technical support or programmer time), XSLT can be a remarkably enabling skill, making it possible for them to create usable output in a variety of formats, including HTML, formats used by visualization software, and even PDF. The challenge for digital humanists is not in finding XSLT resources; because it is such an important technology, there are numerous tutorials online and workshops available. However, these materials and events are almost universally aimed at an industry audience, rather than at humanities scholars. What we seek to do in these seminars is provide an approachable introduction to XSLT that is aimed at a scholarly audience, using examples that can be extended and adapted to participants’ own data, and approaching the topic from the perspective of those who may be familiar with the TEI and XML, but not with other programming languages. This seminar will provide participants with an understanding of the essential concepts of XSLT, and also with the opportunity to experiment with some simple XML publishing tools such as XTF and TEI Boilerplate.
Taking TEI further: transforming and publishing TEI data (Providence, RI, 2013-11) ↴
URL: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/publishing_2013-11/ Developers: Syd Bauman (s.bauman@neu.edu), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), and Julia Flanders (j.flanders@neu.edu) Synopsis: This seminar will provide participants with an understanding of the essential concepts of XSLT, focusing on examples and use cases from TEI data in the humanities. We will also help participants learn how to use simple templates to create more complex XSLT stylesheets, and how to reuse and reverse engineer stylesheets from other projects.
The role of XSLT in digital libraries, editions, and cultural exhibits (Valletta, 2013-09) ↴
URL: http://malta.obdurodon.orgDevelopers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) and Violeta Ilik (vilik@library.tamu.edu)Synopsis: Half-day tutorial, under the auspices of the Seventeenth annual conference on theory and practice of digital libraries (TPDL 2013), to explore the role of XSLT in digital library and digital humanities projects.
Historical documents, digital approaches (Ghent, 2013-09) ↴
URL: http://ghent.obdurodon.orgDeveloper: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: Three half-day workshop sessions on the use of TEI XML for editing and publishing medieval manuscript materials.
XML for Slavic philologists (Heidelberg, 2013-06 – 2013-07) ↴
URL: http://heidelberg.obdurodon.orgDeveloper: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)Synopsis: Five-day workshop on the use of XML-related technologies in the study of Slavic languages and literatures.
Introduction to XSLT for digital humanities (Columbia, SC, 2012-05 – 2012-06) ↴
URL: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/sc2013 Developers: Syd Bauman (s.bauman@neu.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: This seminar provides participants with an understanding of the essential concepts of XSLT, focusing on examples and use cases from TEI data in the humanities. Participants also learn how to use simple templates to create more complex XSLT stylesheets, and how to reuse and reverse engineer stylesheets from other projects.
Digital Jumpstart Workshop: XML and XPath (Lawrence, KS, 2013-03) ↴
URL: http://ku.obdurodon.org/2013-03_ku-xml-workshop.htmlDevelopers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) and Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox (rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu) Synopsis: One-day workshop designed to introduce new users to XML and XPath.
Taking TEI further: transforming and publishing TEI data (Providence, RI, 2012-12) ↴
URL: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/publishing_2012-12 Developers: Syd Bauman (s.bauman@neu.edu), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), and Julia Flanders (j.flanders@neu.edu) Synopsis: This seminar provides participants with an understanding of the essential concepts of XSLT, focusing on examples and use cases from TEI data in the humanities. Participants also learn how to use simple templates to create more complex XSLT stylesheets, and how to reuse and reverse engineer stylesheets from other projects.
Visualizing structural similarity with plectograms and XSLT (Lawrence, KS, 2012-09) ↴
URL: http://ku.obdurodon.org/2012-09-21_ku-plectogram.htmlDevelopers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) and Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox (rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu) Synopsis: Half-day workshop focused on using XSLT to transform XML into SVG plectograms.
Introduction to XSLT for digital humanities (Providence, RI, 2012-03) ↴
URL: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/xslt_2012-03 Developers: Syd Bauman (s.bauman@neu.edu), David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com), and Gabrielle Kirilloff (gkirilloff@gmail.com) Synopsis: This seminar provides participants with an understanding of the essential concepts of XSLT, focusing on examples and use cases from TEI data in the humanities. Participants also learn how to use simple templates to create more complex XSLT stylesheets, and how to reuse and reverse engineer stylesheets from other projects.
Analytical methods in XML (Lawrence, KS, 2012-03) ↴
URL: http://ku.obdurodon.org/2012-03_ku-xml-workshop.htmlDevelopers: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) and Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox (rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu) Synopsis: Two-day workshop focused on the use of analytical tools (especially the statistical package R and the topic-modeling toolkit Mallet) and methods (especially Bayesian classification and SVG visualization) to discover and explore information within XML data.
Introduction to XSLT for digital humanities (Providence, RI, 2011-07) ↴
URL: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/xslt_2011-07 Developers: Syd Bauman (s.bauman@neu.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: This seminar provides participants with an understanding of the essential concepts of XSLT, focusing on examples and use cases from TEI data in the humanities. Participants also learn how to use simple templates to create more complex XSLT stylesheets, and how to reuse and reverse engineer stylesheets from other projects.
Introduction to XSLT for digital humanities (Providence, RI, 2011-03) ↴
URL: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/outreach/seminars/xslt_2011-03 Developers: Syd Bauman (s.bauman@neu.edu) and David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Synopsis: This seminar provides participants with an understanding of the essential concepts of XSLT, focusing on examples and use cases from TEI data in the humanities. Participants also learn how to use simple templates to create more complex XSLT stylesheets, and how to reuse and reverse engineer stylesheets from other projects.

Selected publications

2016

2014

Miscellaneous