Appendix G: list of activities and publications, 1997-2000

Project Activities

The following is a selected list of the activities of the WWP and its staff during the period July 1, 1997 through June 30, 2000.

September 8-9, 2000, the WWP holds its 2000 Annual Meeting.
"An Altruistic Small Textbase Publishing Strategy," by Julia Flanders and Elli Mylonas, DL 2000, San Antonio, Texas, May 2000.
In March 2000, Paul Caton consults with the Early English Books Online group to develop a tag set for transcription of selected texts from the Wing and STC microfilm series.
"Computing? What have the humanities to do with IT?", by Julia Flanders, presented to the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, February 2000.
"Inside the Black Box: Designing and Understanding Online Research Tools," by Julia Flanders, presented at the conference of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1999.
Women Writers Project hosts an exhibition booth together with the Victorian Women Writers Project and the Dickinson Electronic Archives at the Modern Language Association convention, Chicago, December 1999.
"Between Source and Screen: Considering Textual Integrity in an Electronic Edition," (invited lecture) by Julia Flanders, presented at Biblioteche elettriche: VIII incontro di studi di Informatica Umanistica, Verona, November 1999.
"From Textual to Digital: What difference does text encoding make?", by Julia Flanders, presented at a two-day workshop on Digital Libraries: Individual Needs, Common Concerns hosted at Tufts University, November 1999.
Women Writers Project participates in a special session on Women Writers and Computers at the annual 18th and 19th century British Women Writers Conference, Albuquerque, September 1999.
August 18, 1999, the WWP holds its 1999 Annual Meeting.
Women Writers Project hosts an exhibition booth at the American Library Association convention, New Orleans, July 1999.
"Using in TEI Markup," by Paul Caton, presented at ACH/ALLC 1999, Charlottesville, VA, June 1999.
"Playing with the Guidelines: Topics in Text Encoding at the WWP", by Syd Bauman, poster presentation at ACH/ALLC 1999, Charlottesville, VA, June 1999.
"Encoding Renditional Information in Primary Source Texts", by Julia Flanders and Paul Caton, presented at ACH/ALLC 1999, Charlotteville, Virginia, June 1999.
"Challenges in the Design of Online Full-Text Databases: Creating 'Rich' Text Encoding", by Carole Mah, presented at ACH/ALLC 1999, Charlottesville, VA.
"Real Editions for Real People: Editing and Encoding Women's Theatre Texts and Materials", by Julia Flanders, presented at the conference of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1998.
"Traditional Standards, Innovative Methods: Using and Understanding Electronic Editions", by Julia Flanders and Paul Caton; workshop presentation at the conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, Rhode Island, November 1998.
"Scholarly Habits and Digital Resources", by Julia Flanders, presented at Digital Resources in the Humanities, Glasgow, September 1998.
July 17-18, 1998, the WWP holds its 1998 Annual Meeting.
"Early Women Writers and Postmodern Culture: Creating and Teaching with the Brown Women Writers Project Textbase," by Paul Caton, workshop at Attending to Early Modern Women: Crossing Boundaries, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, November 1997.
"TEI and the Encoding of the Physical Structure of Books", by Syd Bauman and Terence Catapano, presented at the Text Encoding Initiative 10th Anniversary Conference, Brown University, November 1997.
"Keying s: the WWP Approach", by Syd Bauman, presented at the Text Encoding Initiative 10th Anniversary Conference, Brown University, November 1997.
ÒData and Wisdom: Electronic Editing and the Quantification of KnowledgeÓ (invited lecture), by Julia Flanders, presented at Computing the Edition (the 1997 Conference on Editing Problems), Toronto, Ontario, November 1997. Forthcoming in conference proceedings from University of Toronto Press.
ÒIntroduction to Using the TEI,Ó 1-day seminar taught by Julia Flanders at the Ecole thŽmatique ÒCodage et Manipulation de ressources linguistiquesÓ at CRIN, Nancy, France, September 1997.
September, 1997, the WWP participates in a 1-day meeting on best practices for TEI headers, Oxford University. The results are presented as a paper at the TEI10 conference, November 1997, Brown University, and published in Computers and the Humanities 33:1-2 (April 1999).
July, 1997: Syd Bauman teaches a one-week workshop entitled "Making Text Work" at the CETH Summer Workshop on SGML and the TEI.

Publications

Caton, Paul. "Putting Renaissance Women Online," Proceedings of the ICCC/IFIP Working Conference on Electronic Publishing '97. ICCC Press.
Flanders, Julia.ÒGender and the Politics of the Electronic Text,Ó in Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory, ed. Kathryn Sutherland, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Flanders, Julia. "Trusting the Electronic Edition." Computers and the Humanities, vol. 32 (1998).
Flanders, Julia, Paul Caton, and Syd Bauman. "Nouns Proper and Improper: Using the TEI for primary sources," with Sydney Bauman and Julia Flanders. Computers and the Humanities, vol. 32 (1998).