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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 […]
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 […]
Digital Mitford 2014 Poster
possibly also a T-Shirt design? Created by Greg Bondar
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 […]
Updated Codebook and Workflow for the Digital Mitford Project
We’ve updated our workflow for editing the Digital Mitford project, as we discussed in our coding hangout today in Google+. For those of you who could not attend, or those who had wonky network connections, or for anyone who needs to review what we discussed today, I’ve posted all the new information and instructions in […]
Project Update: Headnotes for the Digital Mitford
We’ve not had a blog update from the Digital Mitford in a while, but our project team has been busy! We’ve been working on grant writing and conference talks, not to mention semester and job activities, our energies diverted in many directions. We need a Coding Refresher Hangout, so project-team members, please check your e-mail […]
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