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HCMC develops digital projects in collaboration with researchers and instructors from UVic's Faculty of Humanities.
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🎉 Our very own Martin Holmes reached 30 years of service at UVic! His brilliance and expertise are invaluable to not just UVic and the HCMC, but to the whole field of digital humanities. Congratulations on your achievement, Martin!

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October 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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📣 Upcoming Lansdowne public lecture! 📣

In "Renaissance Botany and the Landscapes of Early Printed Books," LEMDO General Textual Editor Dr. Sarah Neville will be speaking on English herbals of the 16th-17th C. 🌱🌿📚

Date: Monday, March 10
Time: 7 pm
Where: Clearihue Building A207
Cost: Free!
Poster for Dr. Sarah Neville's talk. Text reads: Renaissance herbals—sixteenth and seventeenth century printed guides to plants, herbs, and trees, sometimes beautifully illustrated—were among the best-sellers in their time. Yet, the most popular of these books were the least likely to survive readers, making them paradoxically obscure. This talk will explore the phenomenon of the English herbal, showing how botanical knowledge in print came to be seen as a valuable commodity that early modern readers were eager to buy. Dr. Neville is jointly appointed in English and in Theatre, Film, and Media Arts at Ohio State University. She specializes in early modern English literature, bibliography, theories of textuality, and Shakespeare in performance, chiefly examining the ways that authority is negotiated in print, digital and live media. She is an Assistant Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016-17), Co-Coordinating editor of the Digital Renaissance Editions and the New Internet Shakespeare Editions, and General Textual Editor for Linked Early Modern Drama Online. Neville’s latest book, Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany (Cambridge, 2022), demonstrates the ways that printers and booksellers of herbals enabled the construction of scientific and medical authority in early modern England. She is currently editing 2 Henry VI for the Arden Shakespeare. UVic’s Public Lectures Series features accomplished individuals from a vast array of academic and research endeavours. As host of this lecture series, UVic continues its commitment to making a vital impact on people, places, and the planet. For disability accommodation call 250-721-6271
March 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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This week in HCMC: We've gone old-school with our planning and worked with the LEMDO project management team to map out a critical path model on one of our whiteboards.

We may need more whiteboard space 😅
A critical path model made using sticky notes on a whiteboard with arrows drawn between each sticky note in a large tree.
July 26, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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Disappointed you missed #WorldOceansDay over the weekend? You can still take a moment to reflect on the shared history and future of gray whales and people by browsing the DevilFish Project: www.devilfish.site/index.html

Photo by Venti Views on Unsplash (unsplash.com/@ventiviews)
A gray whale near the surface of the water with a rainbow appearing in its spray.
June 11, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Endings Principle of the Month:

2.1 Data models, including field names, descriptions, and controlled values, should be clearly documented in a static document that is maintained with the data and forms part of the products.

More on sustainable #DigitalHumanities at endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...
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June 5, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Did you know that HCMC's predecessor, the Language Centre, periodically published newsletters?

Drop by HCMC for a blast from the past and to read the latest and greatest in "humanities computing" news from 1994-1996!
Four issues of the "Deus ex Machina" newsletter spread across a table. The issue in the front is laid open.
May 8, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Endings Principle of the Month:

1.3 Data is continually subject to validation and diagnostic analysis.

Check out other principles for #DigitalHumanities at endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...
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May 1, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Happy #WorldBookDay from our shelves to yours!
Bookshelf with books published in collaboration with HCMC along with a blue octopus plush on the top shelf and books on XSLT, RelaxNG, Unicode, and MLA style on the bottom shelf.
April 23, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Curious about women illustrators of the Victorian period? Check out DVPP's index of women who illustrated the periodical poetry of the era!

👀: dvpp.uvic.ca/womenIllustr...
A sketch of a woman working on an illustration at a desk with an easel and paints in front of her.
April 10, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Great news for those who love #manuscripts or #Shakespeare: the Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project is now available!

This release includes editions and facsimiles of Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth.

👀: lemdo.uvic.ca/douai

📷: Douai MS 787, Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Facsimile of the first page of Twelfth Night from the MS 787, used by kind permission of the Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Douai. There is a light blue triangle over the top left of the page with text reading: The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project
April 3, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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Endings Principle of the Month:

1.2 Data is subject to version control.

Build your principled #DigitalHumanities skill set by checking out endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...
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April 2, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Can't wait for Take a Walk in the Park Day? Stroll through the history of Moorfields with MoEML! It became a pedestrian destination in the 17 C when the "noysome" water was drained and tree-lined paths were added.

👀: mapoflondon.uvic.ca/MOOR1.htm

🖌️: Faithorne's map of London from Wikimedia Commons
An early-modern map of London that includes a park labelled Moore Fields which is divided into quadrants by tree-lined paths. Text at the bottom of the page reads in all-caps: City of London, 1658. By Faithorne and Newcourt.
March 28, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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A new version of DVPP has been released! This project provides digital access to periodical poetry from the Victorian era.

This release adds a Queer Poetry anthology (selected by RA and JCURA student Braedon Lowey), and an index of poems from the first 30 vols. of the Argosy.

👀: dvpp.uvic.ca
Illustration from The Argosy 2:8, 1866 titled "The Cuckoo", signed by "MEE" (Mary Ellen Edwards). Image depicts a man and a woman walking arm-in-arm outside. The man is holding a basket with flowers in it.
March 18, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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New to the #DigitalHumanities? Curious about what you can do in the field? Check out our project list page! It will tell you about all of the projects that HCMC has supported.

Just don't blame us if you end up down a research rabbit hole...

www.uvic.ca/humanities/h...

📷: www.pexels.com/@shvetsa/
Photo of a white and grey rabbit wearing glasses. It is looking at an open book.
March 13, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Endings Principle of the Month:

1.1 Data is stored only in formats that conform to open standards and that are amenable to processing.

Learn more about this and other principles for
#DigitalHumanities
at endings.uvic.ca/principles.html
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March 7, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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"The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica entry for Mary Tighe sacrifices both substance and nuance in service to brevity, an especially common and unfortunate fate, historically, when it comes to women writers" - S. Behrendt

Read more: eb11.uvic.ca/tighe_mary.h...

📷 G. Romney, National Gallery of Ireland
Oil portrait of Mary Tighe, a white woman with long brown hair wearing a loose cream-coloured dress. She is gazing off into the distance.
March 1, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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Most current formats for digital humanities projects only have an expected lifespan of 10 years. Our answer? The Endings Project!

The Endings Project has developed a set of principles for sustainable digital humanities projects from start to end.
Learn more about this project at endings.uvic.ca
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February 21, 2024 at 7:10 PM