Episode 011 - Kathryn Tomasek

In this episode, we feature an interview with Kathryn Tomasek, associate professor of history at Wheaton College. Kathryn is interviewed by Cliff Anderson, Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning at Vanderbilt. Last summer, Cliff met several of Kathryn's undergraduate students at a private seminar that she held in the lead up to the 2016 Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations conference in Krakow, Poland. Kathryn’s work focuses on transcription and mark-up of historical texts, and she and her students are active in TEI, the Text Encoding Initiative. In the interview, Kathryn discusses her experiences getting started with text encoding, the value of teaching all students how machines talk to each other, and the role that text encoding can play in helping students engage in the kind of close reading that’s critical for historical analysis. Links: * Kathryn Tomasek's faculty page: http://wheatoncollege.edu/faculty/profiles/kathryn-tomasek/ * Kathryn Tomasek's website: http://kathryntomasek.org/ * @kathryntomasek on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kathryntomasek * Wheaton College Digital History Project: http://wheatoncollege.edu/digital-history-project/ * Encoding Historical Financial Records: http://www.encodinghfrs.org/