Events

Celebrating the expansive landscape of digital and computational scholarship in the Faculty of Arts at UBC, we invite students to share their innovative research at our annual end of year showcase. The event bridges academic disciplines within the Faculty through multiple presentation formats; lightning talks, interactive demonstrations, and poster sessions, offering a flexible platform for intellectual exchange and community building. Our conception of digital and computational scholarship is expansive: from computational analysis and digital archives to emerging media, Indigenous knowledge systems, spatial narratives, artificial intelligence, game studies, creative technologies, sound mapping, virtual realities, and beyond. We welcome projects at every developmental […]

DiSA and the Research Commons invite all UBC community members who are working on TEI-XML projects to join us for a number of two-hour co-working sessions over the fall term. If you are looking for a community of practice or just some motivation to keep working on that TEI project, please join us! These are not lecture or workshop-based but rather casual co-working sessions. Various Dates Wednesday, October 1, 12-2 pm Wednesday, October 15, 12-2 pm Thursday, October 30, 12-2 pm Thursday, Nov 27, 12-2 pm Friday, Dec 5, 12-2 pm (CANCELLED) Where Location: Digital Scholarship Lab (497), Koerner Library The […]

The final gathering of our TEI Summer Sessions focused on digital literacy, character sets, and the language of the web (e.g. unicode, XML syntax, etc.); multilingual text encoding practices (including languages that read right to left); and a variety of questions about language-based handling of digital texts encoded in TEI-XML. We recommend installing Oxygen XML Editor, 30 day trial. A limited number of computers in the UBC Digital Scholarship Lab have licensed Oxygen XML installed if you prefer to work on those machines (note: you will need to save your work to cloud storage or a portable device as the computers are […]

Part of the TEI Summer Sessions co-hosted at SFU and UBC, this event focused on encoding, researching, and tagging entities in TEI. Topics included how to encode organizations and people–names, personae, voices, states, traits, etc.–and how to find biographical and prosopographical data about them. We will also discuss locating and encoding places (physical and conceptual), their typology, geographical information, and attributes, and consider the geopolitical aspects of space, place, and location. Participants will also learn how to encode uncertain information about people and places and locate their attributes within time. Coffee and lunch will be provided. July 23, 10 AM – […]

This session offered an introduction to critical digital editing in TEI. In particular, the session provided a hands-on introduction to how the TEI facilitates editorial markup for manuscript and print texts. Topics  included encoding manuscript features–such as additions, deletions, and other revisions in one or more hands–and editorial interventions, such as editorial notes, gaps, and supplied text; marking up interpretations and mechanisms for encoding analysis; and handling of figures, tables, and images. Before attending, we recommend installing Oxygen XML Editor; 30-day trial licenses. A limited number of computers in the UBC Digital Scholarship Lab have licensed Oxygen XML installed if you […]

Are you considering or currently working on a textual project using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) XML? Do you want to work in community with other scholars who are using TEI-XML in their research projects? The Adaptive TEI Network is hosting a hands-on TEI working session for anyone with an upcoming or current TEI project. The goal of this session is to help gather a TEI community of practice and foster a space for shared learning. April 16, 1-4PM in Koerner Library Research Commons

Highlighting the breadth, depth and innovative use of digital and computational scholarship in graduate student research, we invite you to the Arts Graduate Student Showcase on Digital and Computational Scholarship, an end-of-term showcase celebrating graduate student research across the Faculty of Arts. The event will feature lightning talks, posters, valuable community building and networking opportunities, bringing together students and faculty engaged in cutting-edge digital-led research in the creative arts, humanities and social sciences. This is both a showcase and a community building event! The showcase embraces the expansive nature of digital scholarship, where you will see projects that broach several topics […]

Collaboratively visioning the future of UBC Faculty of Arts learning environments, this session focused on the needs for teaching technology in classroom spaces. A hands-on ideation workshop to reimagine our spaces while developing language that advocates for and designs spaces that support teaching digital scholarship. We explored case studies of UBC teaching spaces, labs and study areas that will inform future developments. The session advocated and gave voice to faculty about how to develop innovative learning spaces that consider student engagement, technology needs and outcomes.     Event Details Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 10-11:30 AM Macleod Bldg, Room 3008     […]

This workshop was for those at the beginning stages of a DH project. Specifically, it provided an introduction to best practices and workflows for those embarking on a TEI-based project. Topics included best practices for file naming, organizational and naming practices, version control in Git/GitHub, and setting up a local environment for TEI encoding. Feel free to view the session presentations here. February 11, 2025 “Git Hub”   Instructor: Joey Takeda Joey Takeda is a Developer in the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, Simon Fraser University Library and a member of the TEI Technical Council. Presented in partnership with the Digital Scholarship […]

Digital Scholarship in the Arts invited graduate students with interests and research practices that use digital and computational scholarship to a social mixer. The casual event brought insight as to ways to broaden and deepen research connections across the faculty. Date Friday, February 7, 2025 @ 5pm at Place:  Koerner’s Pub.  Nibbles were provided