Coding Codices

Series 2, Episode 1: Digital Publishing

After a hiatus, Coding Codices is back with a new series!In this first episode, Julia Pelosi-Thorpe and Suzette van Haaren speak to Cosette Bruhns Alonso about digital editing and publishing, and visual art and media.Since the recording of this episode in May 2024, Cosette Bruhns Alonso has been appointed Assistant Editor of Brown University Digital Publications. In this role, she guides the creation of born-digital scholarship that presents research in ways not achievable in conventional print format, intended for publication with university presses.Cosette has published several articles and lectured widely on born-digital publishing, and has significant teaching, curatorial, and digital humanities experience. She received her Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Chicago, and served as BUDP's inaugural Diversity in Digital Publishing Postdoctoral Research Associate. She previously held the position of Contemporary Publishing Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Press and Penn Libraries, and as Assistant Editor of Book and Style Publications at the Modern Language Association. She is the Managing Editor of Dante Studies, the annual journal of the Dante Society of America.Music credits: Intro/outro music by TeknoAXE, "Chiptune Nobility" (CC BY 4.0).Image credits: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français, 24432, fol. 86r, image and text ed. by Sebastian Dows-Miller.

Episode 14: Book Structures and Fan Cultures

In this episode, Aylin and Caitlin speak with Dot Porter on book structures, manuscript studies, and transformative works in fandom. Dot Porter is Curator of Digital Research Services at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies. Music credits: Intro/outro music by TeknoAXE, "Chiptune Nobility" (CC BY 4.0), interludes by Aaron Kenny, "Yonder Hill and Dale" (CC0) Transcript and more information at https://codingcodices.wordpress.com/2023/03/02/episode-14-book-structures-and-fan-cultures/. Recorded 21 November 2022. Edited by Aylin Malcolm.

Episode 13: Accessibility

In this episode, Aylin, Hannah, James, and Seb discuss a recent article by Emily C. Francomano and Heather Bamford and the questions it raises about the accessibility of digital resources for medieval studies. Music credits: Intro/outro music by TeknoAXE, "Chiptune Nobility" (CC by 4.0), interludes by Random Mind, "The Bard's Tale" (CC0) Transcript and more information at https://codingcodices.wordpress.com/2023/01/13/episode-13-accessibility/. Recorded 12 December 2022. Edited by Aylin Malcolm.

Episode 12: Public Digital Humanities

Dr. Margaret Smith from the IRIS Center (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) speaks about her projects focused on bridging gaps between DH studies and the St. Louis community. Her digital medieval work, Submission Strategies, maps, the spatial and social networks captured in the Irish submissions to Richard II, using these and contemporary materials to create a rich and nuanced depiction of the alliances, hostilities, and spheres of influence that shaped the interconnected social networks of England and Ireland. Music credits: Intro/outro music by TeknoAXE, "Chiptune Nobility" (CC by 4.0), interludes by Random Mind, "Market Day" (CC0) Transcript and more information at https://codingcodices.wordpress.com/2022/05/06/episode-12-public-digital-humanities/. Recorded 12 April 2022. Edited by James Harr.

Episode 11: Multispectral Imaging

In this episode Katie Albers-Morris, Helen Davies, and Alex Zawacki talk about recovering palimpsests and erased texts with multispectral imaging. All three are, or have been, PhD candidates at the Lazarus project at the University of Rochester, an initiative that was designed with the educational purpose of training students in the field of multispectral imaging and image processing techniques for cultural heritage objects. During the episode we discuss MSI in general, their experiences as (grad) students and program coordinators at the Lazarus project, MSI in the classroom, and the challenges of dissertation projects in the digital humanities. Transcript and more information at https://codingcodices.wordpress.com/2022/03/04/episode-11-multispectral-imaging/. Music credits: theme music: TeknoAXE, “Chiptune Nobility” (CC BY 4.0); interludes: Random Mind, King’s Feast” (CC0). Recorded 2 August 2021. Produced and edited by Hannah Busch (@cesare_blanc).