Elisa Beshero-Bondar
@epyllia.bsky.social
Adventurer in Digital Humanities. Builds, analyzes, visualizes, activates w/ #TEI and #XSLT. TEI Technical Council Chair, 2023–. Prof of DH | Program Chair of DIGIT at Penn State Behrend (she/they) Mastodon: epyllia@indieweb.social
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Instructors: Elisa Beshero-Bondar and David J. Birnbaum
a repository for materials related to teaching and writing on technologies of up-conversion and project development with the XML family of languages, featuring regex, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and Schematr...
ebeshero.github.io
Everyone's learning AI. But who's teaching data prep, output validation, and sustainable infrastructure? Our DHSI course Week 2 June 15-19: "Processing Your XML/TEI" teaches you XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—skills to apply WITH AI tools on your terms. Future-proof your work.
bit.ly/dhsi-xpath
bit.ly/dhsi-xpath
Everyone's learning AI. But who's teaching data prep, output validation, and sustainable infrastructure? Our DHSI course Week 2 June 15-19: "Processing Your XML/TEI" teaches you XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—skills to apply WITH AI tools on your terms. Future-proof your work.
bit.ly/dhsi-xpath
bit.ly/dhsi-xpath
Instructors: Elisa Beshero-Bondar and David J. Birnbaum
a repository for materials related to teaching and writing on technologies of up-conversion and project development with the XML family of languages, featuring regex, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and Schematr...
ebeshero.github.io
February 5, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Everyone's learning AI. But who's teaching data prep, output validation, and sustainable infrastructure? Our DHSI course Week 2 June 15-19: "Processing Your XML/TEI" teaches you XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—skills to apply WITH AI tools on your terms. Future-proof your work.
bit.ly/dhsi-xpath
bit.ly/dhsi-xpath
Instructors: Elisa Beshero-Bondar and David J. Birnbaum
a repository for materials related to teaching and writing on technologies of up-conversion and project development with the XML family of languages, featuring regex, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and Schematr...
ebeshero.github.io
February 5, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Everyone's learning AI. But who's teaching data prep, output validation, and sustainable infrastructure? Our DHSI course Week 2 June 15-19: "Processing Your XML/TEI" teaches you XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—skills to apply WITH AI tools on your terms. Future-proof your work.
bit.ly/dhsi-xpath
bit.ly/dhsi-xpath
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This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
January 18, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
Ready to go for the #MLA26 Session 1 tomorrow morning! I'm part of the DHSI workshop panel, talking about our course for June 2026 Week 2, + WHY we care about processing TEI / XML in the age of AI, too. @teiconsortium.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social
slides.com/elisabeshero...
slides.com/elisabeshero...
DHSI Processing XML Feature
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January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Ready to go for the #MLA26 Session 1 tomorrow morning! I'm part of the DHSI workshop panel, talking about our course for June 2026 Week 2, + WHY we care about processing TEI / XML in the age of AI, too. @teiconsortium.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social
slides.com/elisabeshero...
slides.com/elisabeshero...
Here's an article for our students! I remember when the WWW, hypertext links, + browsers were new, but to my students it's always been there...The article tells of the web's origins in context w/ the era of Big Tech's AI. That context is urgent for us all just now.
web.archive.org/web/20251001...
web.archive.org/web/20251001...
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.
web.archive.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Here's an article for our students! I remember when the WWW, hypertext links, + browsers were new, but to my students it's always been there...The article tells of the web's origins in context w/ the era of Big Tech's AI. That context is urgent for us all just now.
web.archive.org/web/20251001...
web.archive.org/web/20251001...
Our closing keynote for #TEI2025 is @juliaflanders.bsky.social , who speaks earnestly of TEI’s ongoing relevance in an ethical formulation of our technologies and data structures.
September 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Our closing keynote for #TEI2025 is @juliaflanders.bsky.social , who speaks earnestly of TEI’s ongoing relevance in an ethical formulation of our technologies and data structures.
Reposted by Elisa Beshero-Bondar
💻The #EpiDoc maintainers will be hosting a monthly online drop-in session (1 hour per month).
📨 Please feel free to come with questions, encoding difficulties, or just to listen in on the conversation.
📅The next session is Wednesday, October 22: 17:00 BST = 18:00 CEST = 19:00 EEST = 12:00 EDT
📨 Please feel free to come with questions, encoding difficulties, or just to listen in on the conversation.
📅The next session is Wednesday, October 22: 17:00 BST = 18:00 CEST = 19:00 EEST = 12:00 EDT
September 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
💻The #EpiDoc maintainers will be hosting a monthly online drop-in session (1 hour per month).
📨 Please feel free to come with questions, encoding difficulties, or just to listen in on the conversation.
📅The next session is Wednesday, October 22: 17:00 BST = 18:00 CEST = 19:00 EEST = 12:00 EDT
📨 Please feel free to come with questions, encoding difficulties, or just to listen in on the conversation.
📅The next session is Wednesday, October 22: 17:00 BST = 18:00 CEST = 19:00 EEST = 12:00 EDT
Text Encoding is an ongoing Initiative and our annual conference is for all of us who care about “yesterday’s information tomorrow.”—now including born-digital media! Join us as a member! And come to the 2026 TEI Conference in Vancouver! #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social @joeytakeda.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Text Encoding is an ongoing Initiative and our annual conference is for all of us who care about “yesterday’s information tomorrow.”—now including born-digital media! Join us as a member! And come to the 2026 TEI Conference in Vancouver! #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social @joeytakeda.bsky.social
At #TEI2025 the opening keynote Jadwiga Kita-Huber emphasizes the need for universities in Poland to recognize digital scholarly editions as research for the faculty and scholarly community! This is serious research—and this needs to be respected!
September 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
At #TEI2025 the opening keynote Jadwiga Kita-Huber emphasizes the need for universities in Poland to recognize digital scholarly editions as research for the faculty and scholarly community! This is serious research—and this needs to be respected!
Here, @djakacki.bsky.social and I collaborate in a big thank you statement to the hosts and supporters of #digitalhumanities at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social from the
@teiconsortium.bsky.social . We love being here in Kraków for TEI 2025!
@teiconsortium.bsky.social . We love being here in Kraków for TEI 2025!
September 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here, @djakacki.bsky.social and I collaborate in a big thank you statement to the hosts and supporters of #digitalhumanities at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social from the
@teiconsortium.bsky.social . We love being here in Kraków for TEI 2025!
@teiconsortium.bsky.social . We love being here in Kraków for TEI 2025!
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On 2025-08-15, The #TEI released TEI Guidelines version 4.10.0, "The Olinguito Release” + version 7.59.0 of the TEI Stylesheets. Release notes: www.tei-c.org/release/doc/...
On olinguitos: www.si.edu/stories/olin...
mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/13/1101oling...
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
On olinguitos: www.si.edu/stories/olin...
mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/13/1101oling...
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
On 2025-08-15, The #TEI released TEI Guidelines version 4.10.0, "The Olinguito Release” + version 7.59.0 of the TEI Stylesheets. Release notes: www.tei-c.org/release/doc/...
On olinguitos: www.si.edu/stories/olin...
mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/13/1101oling...
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
On olinguitos: www.si.edu/stories/olin...
mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/13/1101oling...
@teiconsortium.bsky.social
At #dh2025 @roopikarisam.bsky.social emphasizes an ethic of care at the heart of minimal computing at every level of our lives’ work in digital humanities. 💜
July 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
At #dh2025 @roopikarisam.bsky.social emphasizes an ethic of care at the heart of minimal computing at every level of our lives’ work in digital humanities. 💜
Locations for next ADHO conferences:
2026 : Daejeon, South Korea
2027: Galway, Ireland
2028: Capetown, South Africa !
dh2026.adho.org
#dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028
2026 : Daejeon, South Korea
2027: Galway, Ireland
2028: Capetown, South Africa !
dh2026.adho.org
#dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028
DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
dh2026.adho.org
July 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Locations for next ADHO conferences:
2026 : Daejeon, South Korea
2027: Galway, Ireland
2028: Capetown, South Africa !
dh2026.adho.org
#dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028
2026 : Daejeon, South Korea
2027: Galway, Ireland
2028: Capetown, South Africa !
dh2026.adho.org
#dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028
We are so excited to be presenting shortly at #dh2025 on making a small explainable AI model “DigitAI” w/ our knowledge graph made from the #TEI Guidelines, and the declarative power of XSLT 3 (and 4) in work like this! Here are our slides!
1. bit.ly/digitai-dh25
2. bit.ly/xslt-2025
1. bit.ly/digitai-dh25
2. bit.ly/xslt-2025
DIGIT AI for Localized TEI/XML Assistance
A presentation about a small explainable AI project to fine-tune a language model with a graph RAG built with the TEI Guidelines.
bit.ly
July 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We are so excited to be presenting shortly at #dh2025 on making a small explainable AI model “DigitAI” w/ our knowledge graph made from the #TEI Guidelines, and the declarative power of XSLT 3 (and 4) in work like this! Here are our slides!
1. bit.ly/digitai-dh25
2. bit.ly/xslt-2025
1. bit.ly/digitai-dh25
2. bit.ly/xslt-2025
Delighted to be learning from Javier Cha (opening keynote at #DH2025) about the RAG modeling we’re exploring now! I love how he tracks the progress from Cytoscape network viz to neo4j graph modeling in small systems for humanities data!
July 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Delighted to be learning from Javier Cha (opening keynote at #DH2025) about the RAG modeling we’re exploring now! I love how he tracks the progress from Cytoscape network viz to neo4j graph modeling in small systems for humanities data!
Reposted by Elisa Beshero-Bondar
just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
June 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
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The first doctoral program of its kind, our new Ph.D. in Computational Cultural Studies trains students to combine historical, theoretical, and cultural scholarship with computational methodologies.
To learn more: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/computational-cultural-studies
To learn more: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/computational-cultural-studies
June 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The first doctoral program of its kind, our new Ph.D. in Computational Cultural Studies trains students to combine historical, theoretical, and cultural scholarship with computational methodologies.
To learn more: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/computational-cultural-studies
To learn more: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/computational-cultural-studies
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Right now, I would implore everyone to start generally thinking about readiness and situational awareness in major cities. Link up with neighbors. Who are your trusteds?
If you travel-- what is your plan for international travel/return to the states?
If you travel-- what is your plan for international travel/return to the states?
as things heat up in the streets, it’s really important to turn up with people you trust and *have a plan*
the plan cannot be to just wave signs around and then go home, or to have a few people get arrested for nothing. it’s not enough to just throw yourself into the gears blindly without strategy.
the plan cannot be to just wave signs around and then go home, or to have a few people get arrested for nothing. it’s not enough to just throw yourself into the gears blindly without strategy.
June 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Right now, I would implore everyone to start generally thinking about readiness and situational awareness in major cities. Link up with neighbors. Who are your trusteds?
If you travel-- what is your plan for international travel/return to the states?
If you travel-- what is your plan for international travel/return to the states?
Here's a substack I composed on the road last week somewhere between a campsite and a moving car in pretty wobbly internet, while reflecting on cobblestones reflecting (yes that, and a bit more): open.substack.com/pub/ebeshero...
#poetry #digitalhumanities #AI #pedagogy #composition
#poetry #digitalhumanities #AI #pedagogy #composition
"Rolled round in earth's diurnal course with rocks and stones and trees"
On writing where AI isn't
open.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Here's a substack I composed on the road last week somewhere between a campsite and a moving car in pretty wobbly internet, while reflecting on cobblestones reflecting (yes that, and a bit more): open.substack.com/pub/ebeshero...
#poetry #digitalhumanities #AI #pedagogy #composition
#poetry #digitalhumanities #AI #pedagogy #composition
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"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...
Reposted by Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Holding out for the day when I can afford to buy back all the articles I’ve published
Taylor bought back all of her music! Debut and Reputation (and all the other original recordings) belong to her now! The full letter is on her website.
May 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Holding out for the day when I can afford to buy back all the articles I’ve published