Publications and presentations

Our staff present at academic conferences and author peer-reviewed publications. Here is a sample of publications and conference presentations we have been a part of in the past few years:

• Nokhrin, I. (2026). "REED at 50, REED at 100: Envisioning Technology for REED’s Long-term Future." Presented at Records of Early English Drama 50th Anniversary Colloquium, Toronto, Canada. 
• Holmes, M. (2026). "A real class hierarchy for P6 ODDs." Presented at Text Encoding Initiative Annual Conference 2026, Vancouver, Canada.
• Nokhrin, I. (2026). "Navigating a decolonial bibliography." Presented at Text Encoding Initiative Annual Conference 2026, Vancouver, Canada.
• Holmes, M. (2025). "Eye Rhyme in the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project." Presented at Text Encoding Initiative Annual Conference 2025, Krakow, Poland. 
• Holmes, M. and Jenstad, J. (2025). "From Digital Fragility to Resilience: The Future of the BBTI." Presented at The British Book Trade Index: Past, Present, and Future workshop, Birmingham, UK.
• Beshero-Bondar, E.E., Viglianti, R., Bermúdez-Sabel, H. and Jenstad, J. (2025). "Revising Sex and Gender in the TEI Guidelines." Published in Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 17.
• Chapman, A., Holmes, M., Fralick, K., Fukushima, K., Montakhabi Bakhtvar, N., and Pinto, S. (2025).  "Browse, search and serendipity: building approachable digital editions." Book chapter in Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century. Scottish University Press.
• Holmes, M. and Jenstad, J. (2024). "Eliminating Technical Debt in Digital Humanities Projects." Presented at BC Net CONNECT Summit, Vancouver, BC.
• Holmes, M., Huculak, M., and Jenstad, J. (eds.) (2023). Project Resiliency in the Digital Humanities. Special Issue published in Digital Humanities Quarterly 17.1.
• Lukaniec, M. and Holmes, M. (2023). "Modern Wendat Lexicography:Using XML to Reflect the Grammar and Lexicon of an Iroquoian Language." Published in Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 44.2.
• Holmes, M. and Newton, G. (2022). "How big can a static site be? Staticizing a census database." Presented at Digital Humanities 2022 Conference, Tokyo.
• Holmes, M. and Jenstad, J. (2022). "What the Book Got Right, or, Lots of Static Copies Keep Stuff Safe." Presented at Bibliographical Society of Canada, virtual conference.
• Jenstad, J. and El Hajj, T. (2021). "Converting SGML Hybrids to TEI-XML: The Case of the Internet Shakespeare Editions." Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference, Washington D.C., USA.
• Takeda, J. and Holmes, M. (2020). "Nine Projects, One Codebase: A Static Search Engine for Digital Editions." Presented at COLLABORATION Digital Humanities 2020 Conference, UBC.
• Holmes, M. and Takeda, J. (2020). "Static Search: An Archivable and Sustainable Search Engine for the Digital Humanities." Presented at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2020 Colloquium, UVic.
• Jenstad, J., Tomasek, K., and Holmes, M. (eds.) (2019-2020). Selected Papers from the 2017 TEI Conference. Published in Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, July 2019-May 2020.
• Holmes, M. and Takeda, J. (2019). "Beyond Validation: Using Programmed Diagnostics to Learn About, Monitor, and Successfully Complete Your DH Project." Published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford University Press/EADH.
• Smithies, J. Ciula, A. Otis, J., Cheslack-Postava, F., Holmes, M., Arneil, S., Newton, G., and Mulliken, J. (2019). "Clearing the Air for Maintenance and Repair: Strategies, Experiences, Full Disclosure" Panel discussion at Digital Humanities 2019 Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands.
• Arneil, S., Holmes, M., and Newton, G. (2019). "Project Endings: Early Impressions From Our Recent Survey On Project Longevity In DH" Presented at Digital Humanities 2019 Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands.
• Roberts-Smith, J., Kaethler, M., Malone, T., Giffen, L., Holmes, M., Jenstad, J., and Takeda, J. (2019). "Tagging Time and Space: TEI and the Canadian Stratford Festival Promptbooks." Published in Digital Studies/le Champ Numérique 9.1.
• Holmes, M. and Takeda, J. (2019). "The Prefabricated Website: Who needs a server anyway?" Presented at Text Encoding Initiative Annual Conference 2019, Graz, Austria.

For more details on any of these publications, or for more information on our earlier publications and presentations, contact the department or individual members.