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- The NVS Receives Funding for Two Undergraduate Professional and Research Experience Program (UPREP) for 2025
- Texas Digital Humanities Symposium, 5-6 September 2024
- NVS Team Update
- Dr. Robert Stagg to Join A&M’s English Department and NVS Team Next Year
- NVS Awarded a Prestigious Strategic Transformative Research Program (STRP) Grant
- NVS Team Update
- NVS Team Hits Transcription Milestone
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The NVS Receives Funding for Two Undergraduate Professional and Research Experience Program (UPREP) for 2025
Dec. 12, 2024Each semester, the Department of English selects 5-7 faculty projects for the UPREP program, which pairs undergraduate English majors with faculty members on selected projects outside of the classroom. The Undergraduate Studies Committee voted on and approved funding for two NVS research proposals. One proposal is titled “XML Encoding and Correcting Ingestion Errors for the New Variorum Shakespeare,” and was submitted by Dr. Kris May. The other proposal is titled “Collation Tool Development and Transcription for the New Variorum Shakespeare,” and was submitted by Dr. Dorothy Todd. Grace Hoelscher and Allie Blue have been selected as NVS UPREP fellows and will begin working on the NVS project in the spring.
Texas Digital Humanities Symposium, 5-6 September 2024
Sept. 5, 2024
Bryan Tarpley presented a paper titled “Corpora: A Dataset Studio for the Digital Humanities” at this year’s Texas Digital Humanities Symposium at Baylor on September 6th. Corpora is a tool for creating, searching, exploring, and transforming digital humanities datasets at any scale and currently serves as the backend for several A&M digital projects, including the NVS. Bryan's paper discussed plans for further developing Corpora and how this tool might be situated in the larger DH ecosystem of technologies. For more information, please see the full conference program.
NVS Team Update
Aug. 1, 2024The New Variorum Shakespeare project welcomes Andrew Hoyt (Applied Mathematics with a Computer Science emphasis, Undergraduate) and Grace Hoelescher (English, Undergraduate) back to the team, along with new team member Allie Blue (English, Undergraduate). All three students will serve as Strategic Transformative Research Program (STRP) Fellows this semester. The NVS applied for a Type-II $10,000 STRP grant for edition gathering, transcription, and collation work for the second phase of the project and were awarded full funding. Also joining the team is Kaitlin Carman as the NVS intern. She is an English major, currently working on her digital humanities certificate at Framingham State University, under the direction of Dr. Kristen Abbott Bennett, Assistant Professor of English at Framingham.
Dr. Robert Stagg to Join A&M’s English Department and NVS Team Next Year
June 20, 2024The New Variorum Shakespeare is happy to announce that Dr. Robert Stagg will be joining Texas A&M University’s Department of English as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and NVS Principal Investigator and Director in the fall of 2024. Dr. Stagg is currently a Leverhulme Early-Career Research Fellow, Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Fellow, and Associate Senior Member at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. At Texas A&M, Dr. Stagg will be joining Dr. Katayoun Torabi (Digital Editor of the NVS and Instructional Associate Professor of English), Dr. Kris L. May (Associate Digital Editor of the NVS), and Dr. Dorothy Todd (Associate Digital Editor of the NVS and Instructional Assistant Professor of English), Please read the full NVS announcement on SHAKSPER.
NVS Awarded a Prestigious Strategic Transformative Research Program (STRP) Grant
June 1, 2024In an effort to support cutting-edge interdisciplinary research activities at A&M, the College of Arts and Sciences launched the Strategic Transformative Research Program. The NVS team applied for a Type-II $10,000 grant for edition gathering, transcription, and collation work for the second phase of the project and were awarded full funding!
NVS Team Update
May 15, 2024The New Variorum Shakespeare project welcomes Grace Hoelescher, who started working on the NVS project as the Undergraduate Professional and Research Experience Program (UPREP) Student Researcher during the Spring 2024 semester. She will join the team as a student researcher beginning this summer. Andrew Hoyt (Applied Mathematics with a Computer Science emphasis, Undergraduate) and Fernando Gonzalez Torres (Industrial Engineering, Undergraduate) will continue work through the summer and Jade Gooden (Anthropology, Undergraduate), who is graduating this spring, will be leaving the project at the end of the month. The NVS team wishes to thank Ms. Gooden for her excellent work and mentorship of other student researchers on the project. She has been a valued member of the NVS team and will be missed!
NVS Team Hits Transcription Milestone
May 10, 2024The NVS team has transcribed 58,000 lines to date for several NVS plays, including Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, and Two Gentlemen of Verona. These clean transcriptions are being used by editors for witness collation and for training the newest version of Tesseract (OCR engine). Each training increases the accuracy of Corpora's integrated OCR engine, so that it will be able to handle the vagaries of early modern print with increasing accuracy. The more Tesseract 5 is trained using clean transcriptions of early modern texts, the more accurately the OCR engine will read these texts. This process will eventually become automated, thus making producing transcriptions by hand unnecessary.
