Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Adventurer in Digital Humanities. Builds, analyzes, visualizes, activates w/ #TEI and #XSLT. TEI Technical Council Chair, 2023–. Prof of DH | Program Chair of DIGIT at Penn State Behrend (she/they) Mastodon: epyllia@indieweb.social
- Everyone's learning AI. But who's teaching data prep, output validation, and sustainable infrastructure? Our DHSI course Week 2 June 15-19: "Processing Your XML/TEI" teaches you XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—skills to apply WITH AI tools on your terms. Future-proof your work. bit.ly/dhsi-xpath
- Everyone's learning AI. But who's teaching data prep, output validation, and sustainable infrastructure? Our DHSI course Week 2 June 15-19: "Processing Your XML/TEI" teaches you XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—skills to apply WITH AI tools on your terms. Future-proof your work. bit.ly/dhsi-xpath
- Reposted by Elisa Beshero-BondarThis is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
- Ready to go for the #MLA26 Session 1 tomorrow morning! I'm part of the DHSI workshop panel, talking about our course for June 2026 Week 2, + WHY we care about processing TEI / XML in the age of AI, too. @teiconsortium.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social slides.com/elisabeshero...
- Here's an article for our students! I remember when the WWW, hypertext links, + browsers were new, but to my students it's always been there...The article tells of the web's origins in context w/ the era of Big Tech's AI. That context is urgent for us all just now. web.archive.org/web/20251001...
- Our closing keynote for #TEI2025 is @juliaflanders.bsky.social , who speaks earnestly of TEI’s ongoing relevance in an ethical formulation of our technologies and data structures.
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- Text Encoding is an ongoing Initiative and our annual conference is for all of us who care about “yesterday’s information tomorrow.”—now including born-digital media! Join us as a member! And come to the 2026 TEI Conference in Vancouver! #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social @joeytakeda.bsky.social
- At #TEI2025 the opening keynote Jadwiga Kita-Huber emphasizes the need for universities in Poland to recognize digital scholarly editions as research for the faculty and scholarly community! This is serious research—and this needs to be respected!
- Here, @djakacki.bsky.social and I collaborate in a big thank you statement to the hosts and supporters of #digitalhumanities at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social from the @teiconsortium.bsky.social . We love being here in Kraków for TEI 2025!
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- On 2025-08-15, The #TEI released TEI Guidelines version 4.10.0, "The Olinguito Release” + version 7.59.0 of the TEI Stylesheets. Release notes: www.tei-c.org/release/doc/... On olinguitos: www.si.edu/stories/olin... mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/13/1101oling... @teiconsortium.bsky.social
- At #dh2025 @roopikarisam.bsky.social emphasizes an ethic of care at the heart of minimal computing at every level of our lives’ work in digital humanities. 💜
- Locations for next ADHO conferences: 2026 : Daejeon, South Korea 2027: Galway, Ireland 2028: Capetown, South Africa ! dh2026.adho.org #dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028
- Celebrating the ADHO leadership of Michael Eberle Sinatra fittingly with an iconic gift!
- We are so excited to be presenting shortly at #dh2025 on making a small explainable AI model “DigitAI” w/ our knowledge graph made from the #TEI Guidelines, and the declarative power of XSLT 3 (and 4) in work like this! Here are our slides! 1. bit.ly/digitai-dh25 2. bit.ly/xslt-2025
- Delighted to be learning from Javier Cha (opening keynote at #DH2025) about the RAG modeling we’re exploring now! I love how he tracks the progress from Cytoscape network viz to neo4j graph modeling in small systems for humanities data!
- Excited to learn the latest about Voyant/Spyral the #dh2025 workshops!
- Excited to learn the latest about Voyant/Spyral the #dh2025 workshops!
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- Here's a substack I composed on the road last week somewhere between a campsite and a moving car in pretty wobbly internet, while reflecting on cobblestones reflecting (yes that, and a bit more): open.substack.com/pub/ebeshero... #poetry #digitalhumanities #AI #pedagogy #composition
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- Dining and coding and teaching (did I get that in the wrong order?) at DHSI in Montreal has been lots of fun this week! #dhsi2025 #dhsi25
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- At DHSI, in Montreal and not Victoria this year! It’s the 24th anniversary and Ray Siemens is honored with a special T-shirt reading “A Ray of Sunshine” for his founding and care of our DHSI institute and community all these years! #dhsi2025
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[Not loaded yet] - Our Digit students hold their project showcase today (projects on their way to completion next week). Check out the slate, join over Zoom, feedback welcome! digit-psb.github.io/DIGIT-Works/... #digitalhumanities #digitalarts
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- Finally published! Our article on revising sex and gender in the TEI Guidelines, with some literary encoding experimental examples from V. Woolf’s Orlando and cast lists from early modern drama!
- These days, besides dismay and distress every morning and night in encountering news and news of my friends and colleagues, I feel visceral irony about even everyday university stuff. I can't help but see what we *used to* know and understand 2 yrs / 5 yrs ago. You feeling it too? Examples...?
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- I mean, if Trump is seeking to boot people who are “too slow” and not keeping up, it’s not the Fed chief who ought to go first…
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- TEI Community calls are a new thing this year! Working on TEI project and have questions? Come join and meet some good people!
- Check out/sign up for our DHSI course, Processing Your XML/TEI with the XML Family of Languages, at DHSI Week 1 (May 26-30) in Montreal! ebeshero.github.io/UpTransform Early bird registration ends March 31! bit.ly/2025-dhsireg @teiconsortium.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elisa Beshero-BondarEl Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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- Some days, the word "unconscionable" needs to be applied in multiple sentences. It's a word worth practicing, to hear it resonate. Unconscionable!
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- Revisionist history in a git commit. As Derrida would remind us, we won’t obliterate the trace of the erased in the palimpsest, and nor will they find it easy to revert a git history of thousands of commits. Let’s fork some repos. github.com/CDCgov/prime...
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- Our case study, "Anna Julia Cooper talks back on a 1930 survey of Black college graduates: Digitizing an historic Q & A with #TEI " now published as part of #dariahTeach intro course on Social Justice in DH. teach.dariah.eu/mod/lesson/v... @teiconsortium.bsky.social @dariaheu.bsky.social
- I've just posted my first Substack, on trying to teach "cognitive endurance" in our technocracy. Come follow me here! :-) open.substack.com/pub/ebeshero...
