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Digital Mitford Coding School: June 22 – 26, 2022
Please join us as we convene in person, June 22 – 26, 2022 in Erie, PA for the Eighth Digital Mitford Coding School! Register here: https://behrend.psu.edu/digitalmitford Digital Mitford’s Coding School is distinctive: you learn methods of text encoding and their applications in Digital Humanities, from the context of an active, ongoing digital edition project.
Digital Mitford Next Week and Next Year
Some of the plants in my garden were uprooted and replanted last summer right along with me, as I moved from my old job at Pitt-Greensburg to my new position at Penn State Erie. Moving and teaching and running a program in a time of global pandemic was fraught enough last year, but gardening has […]
Digital Mitford Coding School: May 20 – 24, 2019: Call for Participants
We invite you to join members of the Digital Mitford project team from Monday May 20 through Friday May 24, 2019 for the Seventh Annual Workshop Series and Coding School, hosted by the Pitt-Greensburg’s Center for the Digital Text and the University of Pittsburgh Library Sytem. Updated Deadline: Registrations (online or check) are due by Friday, May 10. Review […]

Digital Mitford Coding School, June 25-27, 2016
We invite you to join members of the Digital Mitford project team from Saturday June 25 through Monday June 27, 2016 for the Fourth Annual Workshop Series and Coding School, hosted by the newly established Center for the Digital Text at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.
from 900 to 1425 xml:ids: A Mitfordian milestone
The Digital Mitford team coordinated a massive effort last fall to complete a burst of coding, in particular to finish up transcriptions of assigned letters and to research and develop new prosopography entries–that is, entries on our lists of Named Entities: people (and fictional characters), organizations, places (and fictional places), books, serial publications, works of […]

Agenda and New Material Posted for Digital Mitford Workshop and Coding School
Welcome to Greensburg, Digital Mitfordians! We’ve updated our site’s page of training materials for our coding school and editors’ workshops. We’re excited to be orienting over 30 people to the TEI and related coding methods this week!
http://digitalmitford.org: Site Migration!
Followers of our project should bookmark our new site address: http://digitalmitford.org ! We are transitioning our project to new server space hosted by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), and the Digital Mitford project has joined the PSC’s Data Exacell program, a pilot project that deploys supercomputing equipment and processing power to support data analysis projects across disciplines […]
The Digital Mitford Coding School, May 27 – 31, 2015 at Pitt-Greensburg: Our Third Annual Workshop
We call for participants and prospective new editors to join us from Wed. May 27 through Sunday May 31, 2015 for the Third Annual Workshop Series (or Coding School) of the Digital Mitford: the Mary Russell Mitford Archive, at http://mitford.pitt.edu. Please join us if you want to learn text encoding methods in Digital Humanities through hands-on participation in a large-scale digital archive project […]
The Digital Mitford’s Guide to 19th-Century British Postmarks, and How To Code Them in TEI
Here is a colorful, annotated series of powerpoint slides prepared (and recently updated as of 20 May 2018) by Greg Bondar. Greg prepared these from research of TEI coding, our photos of letters from the Reading Central Library (posted with their permission), and information from the canonical reference tome, Alcock and Holland’s The Postmarks of Great Britain and […]
Digital Mitford Site Update, Letter Exhibit, and Twitter Feed
Digital Mitford Site Update, Letter Exhibit, and Twitter Feed I’ve made some major updates to the Digital Mitford site this weekend, including an exhibit on our editing of Mitford’s letters, much more detail on our editing and coding methods, and new orientation materials that we’ll be using with our student assistants and new editors joining […]
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