Events

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 […]

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 […]

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), […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 RSVP: […]

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 […]