Events

Chronological list of our past and present events.


TEI Summer Session 3: Encoding Language


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 […]

TEI Summer Session 2: Encoding Entities: People, Orgs, Time and Place


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), […]

TEI Summer Session 1: Critical Editing and Interpretation in TEI


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 […]

TEI Summer Sessions


Have you ever considered creating a digital edition? Do you want to learn more about how TEI-XML can be used for digital humanities research? Do you want to practice editing-as-analysis with onsite support? The SFU’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, UBC Digital Scholarship in the Arts, Adaptive TEI Network, and UBC Library Research Commons are co-hosting […]

Encoding TEI-XML in Community: A Hands-on Working Session


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. […]

2025 Arts Graduate Student Showcase on Digital and Computational Scholarship


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, […]

Reimagining Learning Spaces for Teaching Technology


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 […]

Graduate Student Gathering


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: […]

Digital Humanities Project Foundations


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 Champions Social


The Digital Scholarship in the Arts (DiSA) initiative hosted a casual get-together focused on those who already participate in digital scholarship.  As engaged faculty in digital methodologies, long-standing champions, and contributors to the area in various ways, the event aimed to open opportunities to learn about and connect with fellow faculty, share ideas, and explore […]