Category: Code

  • An “I’m Not Sure” option in WonderCat

    It’s tricky to create a relational database organized around taxonomies that can grow with user-proposed terms. But this always-growing taxonomy is the point. WonderCat is not about surveying people. It’s not about gathering data for statistical analysis. It’s about finding a way for scholarly expertise about literature to help real readers better understand their experiences…

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  • Editing in the Open

    This presentation was given at MLA 2023 for a panel called “Innovative Approaches to Editions and Edition Building in the Classroom.” Ever since I started learning about scholarly editing, I have appreciated that editing was a way of knowing. Presenting a text was the best way of studying it and understanding it more fully (even…

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