Publications
Orlando papers and presentations are prepared collaboratively by the Orlando team.
Electronic Textbase
Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge University Press, June 2006. (www.cambridge.org/orlandoonline) 8 million words; twelve hundred writers; 33,000 freestanding and embedded events. Deeply tagged SGML textbase; newly developed delivery system.
Books
In Progress:
The Orlando History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles, three volumes, will be published by Cambridge University Press. Its three volumes are:
Isobel Grundy, Vindicating Their Sex: Pre-Victorian Women’s Writing in the British Isles
Susan Brown, Contradictions and Continuities: Women’s Writing in the British Isles, 1820-1890
Patricia Clements, Jo-Ann Wallace, Rebecca Cameron, FreeWoman: Modern Women’s Writing in the British Isles
Published:
Binhammer, Katherine and Jeanne Wood, eds., Women and Literary History: ‘For there she was.’ Introduction on “Feminist Literary Historiography” by Katherine Binhammer, Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy and Jeanne Wood. University of Delaware Press, 2003.
This volume originated with papers given at the Orlando Project’s early planning conference, “Women and Literary History”.
Contributors: Antonia Forster, Carole Gerson, Elaine Hobby, Kathryn R. King, Sally O’Driscoll, Suzanne Raitt, Betty A. Schellenberg, Bonnie Kime Scott, Ann B. Shteir, Susan Staves, Marjorie Stone, Jo-Ann Wallace.
Articles / Book Chapters
Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker, Jeffery Antoniuk, and Sharon Balazs. “Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in Digital Humanities Research”; in Digital Humanities Quarterly 3:2 (Spring 2009). Available at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/2/000040.html
Ruecker, Stan, Susan Brown, Milena Radzikowska, Stéfan Sinclair, Thomas M. Nelson, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Sharon Balasz, and Jeff Antoniuk. “The Table of Contexts: A Dynamic Browsing Tool for Digitally Encoded Texts”; in The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing. Ed. Lucie Dolezalova. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. pp. 177-187.
Brown, Susan, Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, Matt Patey, Stéfan Sinclair, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Farnel, and Isobel Grundy. “Visualizing Varieties of Association in Orlando”. Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science 1:1 (2009).
“Ink and Air: Computing and the Research Culture of the Humanities,” in Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, ed. Ray Siemens and David Moorman. University of Calgary Press, 2006. 15 – 31.
“Between Markup and Delivery; or Tomorrow’s Electronic Text Today,” in Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, ed. Ray Siemens and David Moorman. University of Calgary Press, 2006. xxxiii – xlii.
“Sorting things in: Feminist knowledge representation and changing modes of scholarly production.” Feminisms and Print Culture special issue. Ed. Maria diCenzo. Women’s Studies International Forum 29:3 (May 2006): 317 – 325.
“Facing the Deep: The Orlando Project Delivery System 1.0.” TEXT Technology 14:2 (2005): 21 – 40.
“Intertextual Encoding in the Writing of Women’s Literary History,” Computers and the Humanities 38 (2004): 191 – 206.
“Dates and ChronStructs: Dynamic Chronology in the Orlando Project,” Literary and Linguistic Computing 15:3 (2000): 265 – 289. Full text available.
“Can a Team Tag Consistently? Experiences on the Orlando Project,” Markup Languages Theory and Practice 2:2 (Spring 2000): 111 – 125.
“Tag Team: Computing, Collaborators, and the History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles,” Technologising the Humanities / Humanitising the Technologies. Special issue of Computing in the Humanities Working Papers, Ed. R. G. Siemens and William Winder. TEXT Technology 8 (1998): 37 – 52. Available at: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/orlando/index.html
“SGML and the Orlando Project: Descriptive Markup for an Electronic History of Women’s Writing,” Computers and the Humanities 31 (1998): 271 – 85.
“The Orlando Project: Building Digital Resources for an Integrated History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles,” The Digital Demotic: Selected Papers from DRH97, Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference. Ed. Lou Burnard, Marilyn Deegan, and Harold Short. London: Office for Humanities Communication (1998): 25 – 38.
Abstracts
“Delivering the Depths: Representing the Orlando Project’s Interpretive Markup,” ALLC/ACH Conference Abstracts. Athens: University of Georgia, 2003, 33 – 35.“Extending the Collaboration,” ALLC/ACH Conference Abstracts. Athens: University of Georgia, 2003, 124 – 25.
“Orlando on the Web: From Development System to Web-based Delivery of a Content-Encoded Textbase,” ALLC/ACH Conference Abstracts. Athens: University of Georgia, 2003, 158 – 59.
“Can a Team Tag Consistently? Experiences on the Orlando Project,” ALLC/ACH ‘99 Conference Abstracts. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1999. Abstract of refereed paper. Available at http://www.ach.org/abstracts/1999/butler.html
“Developing a Dynamic and Complex Chronology within a History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles,” ALLC/ACH ’98 Conference Abstracts. Debrecen, Hungary: Lajos Kossuth University, 1998, 20 – 22. Abstract of refereed paper.“The Orlando Project: Humanities Computing in Conversation with Literary History,” ALLC/ACH ‘97 Conference Abstracts. Kingston: Queen’s University, 1997, 83 – 89. Abstract of refereed paper.
Lectures and Conference Papers
Susan Brown, Blair Nonnecke, Stan Ruecker, and Claire Warwick. “Studying Orlando’s Interfaces.” Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities/ Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference, 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Carleton University. May 25-27, 2009.
“Orlando‘s Digital Literary History: New Ways to Study Authors, Readers, and Publishing” paper at annual conference of SHARP, the Society for the History of Authorship, Readers and Publishing, at Brookes University, Oxford, UK. 26 June 2008.
“Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles: online exploration of women’s lives and works”. Plenary at Aphra Behn Society annual conference. University of New Mexico. 26 October 2007.
“Indexing in an Information Environment.” Presented at NFAIS (National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services) Humanities Roundtable V. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 16 October 2006.
Isobel Grundy. Demonstration of Orlando. Presented at Not Drowning but Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts Conference. University of Alberta, 13 October 2006.
Isobel Grundy. “Encountering Women’s Literary History Online: Orlando, a Newly Published Resource”, at “Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century / Frontières au dix-huitièrme siècle”, annual meeting of ISECS, the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Svartå, Finland. 1 September 2006.
Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy. “Literary History – with a Difference”. Plenary at annual meeting of SDH/SEMI (Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs), Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, York University, Toronto. 31 May 2006.
Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy. “Humanities and Computing: Orlando” at interdisciplinary symposium, “The Computer: The Once and Future Medium for the Humanities and Social Sciences”, at annual meeting of SDH/SEMI, York University, Toronto. 30 May 2006.
Isobel Grundy. “Eighteenth-Century Women and the Digital Turn.” Presented for the annual Clifford Lecture at the annual American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, Montreal. 31 March 2006.
Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy. “Orlando Abroad: Scholarship and Transformation”. Presented at Digital Humanities 2006, Sorbonne, Paris
“Starting from Scratch: the Orlando Project and the Challenges of Literary History,” IC Forum, Computing in the Arts. University of Alberta, 24 January 2005.
“The Orlando Project: the Delivery System.” Image, Text, Sound & Technology: A Symposium on Digital Text Editing. University of Saskatchewan, May 2004.
“Extending the Collaboration,” paper presented to the annual meeting of ACH/ALLC (Association for Computing in the Humanities/Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing), Athens, Georgia, 2 June 2003.
“The Augmented Intelligence,” paper presented to COCH/COSH, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, 27 May 2003.
“Creativity, Culture, and Computing,” keynote address, Brock University Humanities Symposium, 28 April 2003.
“Between Markup and Delivery; or, Tomorrow’s Electronic Text Today.” At plenary session, “Inter/Disciplinary Models, Disciplinary Boundaries: Humanities Computing and Emerging Mind Technologies.” COCH/COSH 2002 Meeting, Toronto, 27 May 2002.
Orlando Session, “Diverse Encoding and Encoding Diversity: Conceptual Markup on The Orlando Project“. Three papers as follows: “The Hard and the Soft: Encoding Literary History,” “Risking E-Race-Sure/Erasure: Encoding Cultural Formations,” and “The Anxiety of Encoding: Intertextuality and Feminist Literary History.” Digital Research in the Humanities Conference, School of African and Oriental Studies, London University, 9 July 2001.
“Text and Intertext in Electronic Documents.” Annual ALLC/ACH Conference, New York, June 2001.
“Between the Lines: Encoding Our Orlando.” The Eleventh Virginia Woolf Conference. University of Wales at Bangor, 14 June 2001.
“Women’s Literary History by Electronic Means: the Creation and Communication of Meaning on the Orlando Project.” 7 June 2001. Annual Donald F. McKenzie Lecture, Oxford University.
“Finding New Pathways Through Literary History.” McKenzie Seminar, 8 June 2001, Oxford University.
“Solutions for the Delivery of Thematically Tagged Text.” Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computing in the Humanities. University of Glasgow, July 2000.
“Electronic Literary History and some Bibliographical Issues.” Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. University of Alberta, June 2000.
“Collaboration and Possibility in the Orlando Project.” Workshop with FACT Group (Feminism and Cultural Texts). University of Calgary, April 2000.
“The End of the Book? Going Electronic.” Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada 28th Annual Conference. University of Victoria, October 1999.
“Electronic Archives: The Orlando Project.” Turning the Centuries: The Ninth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. University of Delaware, Newark, June 1999.
“Developing a Dynamic Chronology of Women’s Writing,” invited panel presentation at Turning the Centuries: The Ninth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. University of Delaware, Newark, June 1999.
“Can a Team Tag Consistently? Experiences on the Orlando Project.” Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computing in the Humanities. Charlottesville, VA, June 1999. Please have a look at the abstract and you can also download our power point conference presentation.
“Smartening Up: The Orlando Project.” Special Session on “Making Electronic Texts Smarter.” 114th Convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1998.
“The Orlando Project: Issues when Moving from SGML to XML for Delivery of Content-Rich Encoded Text” Markup Technologies ’98, Chicago, November 1998.
“Developing a Dynamic and Complex Chronology within a History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles.” Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computing in the Humanities, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary, July 1998.
“The Orlando Project and SGML.” Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computing in the Humanities, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary, July 1998.
“Orlando Furioso.” Symposium on Reading and Teaching Early Modern Women Writers. Brock University, May 1998.
“The Orlando Project: Doing Women’s Literary History Electronically.” Seventh Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, Chapel Hill, March 1998.
“The Orlando Project: Computing and the Collaborative Production of Literary History.” Special Forum titled “Revolution or Evolution?: Electronic Resources in the Humanities.” Modern Language Association, Toronto, December 1997.
“The Orlando Project: Building Digital Resources for an Integrated History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles.” Digital Resources for the Humanities, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, September 1997.
“Describing Orlando.” Women and Literary History Conference, University of Alberta, September 1997.
“The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women’s Writing.” Keynote Address. Breaking the Myths Conference, Open University, London, September 1997.
“Tag Team: Computing, Collaborators, and the History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles.” Plenary at joint session sponsored by the Canadian Consortium for Computing in the Humanities as well as by the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, at the meeting of the Learned Societies of Canada, Memorial University of Newfoundland, June 1997.
“Orlando Project: Humanities Computing in Conversation with Literary History.” Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computing in the Humanities, Queen’s University, June 1997.
“Canadian Women’s Writing: Writing the Country,” as invited Canadian Studies Lecturer, Chiba University, Japan, February 1997.
Orlando Symposium, History Department, University of Alberta, 1996.
Orlando Panel, English Department, University of Alberta, 1996.
“A Textbase for a Literary Critical History: Defining the Elements.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, Brock University, May 1996.
Poster Presentation. Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computing in the Humanities, 1995.
Other Papers Related to Orlando
Isobel Grundy, “‘Everything Interlinked’: Putting Feminist Knowledge In Touch Across Centuries, Across The World.” Feminist Research Speakers Series, University of Alberta, 18 March 2009.
Stan Ruecker, “Conceptual Levels of SGML Tags: a proposed taxonomy based on the tagging in the Orlando Project.” Web Information Systems Engineering 2000 conference. Hong Kong, June 2000. (Article in pdf format. Get Adobe Acrobat Reader – free download)
Isobel Grundy, “Delivering Childbirth: Orlando Project Encoding.” This paper was given, in a shorter version entitled “Childbirth Encoded: Women give birth and write about it,” at the British Eighteenth – and Nineteenth- Century Women Writers conference. Lawrence, Kansas, 16 March 2001.
Isobel Grundy, “Day Jobs for Women Writers.” Annual American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference. New Orleans, 19 April 2001.
Patricia Clements, “New Horizons for the Social Sciences,” discussant in session at a joint SSHRC/OECD Conference on Social Sciences for A Digital World: Building Infrastructure for the Future. Ottawa, 6 – 8 October 1999.
Patricia Clements, “Innovation and the Social Sciences and Humanities,” invited address to the AUCC meeting of Vice-Presidents Research on “Innovation: Same Realities, New Language?”. Montreal, 18 June 1999.
