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Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
Our editorial and encoding practices are documented in detail in the Praxis section of our website.
News items are individual short stories (
Originally, news stories were all contained in a single file, the news.xml
file,
but of course it eventually became unwieldy and has now been split into separate files, one for
each story. These files appear in the /db/data/news/
folder. News briefs are used to
provide short announcements about major changes in the project, releases, team changes, and so on.
The simplest approach is to take an existing news story, save it with a new filename, and then rework it to create your own story. Then just add it to svn.
A news story file is always named as in these examples, where the date represents the date of the story.
(Note: you can post-date a story if you want it to appear at some future point.)
The only things you need to edit in the file will be:
The changes you need to make should be obvious except for the last case. The story
Don’t forget to make sure the date in the title is correct. Most news stories include a picture, which will also be used on the home page when the story is the most recent one. Keep your story short and punchy. Note that the current approach of providing explicit style to size and place the image will soon be replaced by a more consistent approach based on a set of available style attributes.