A Critical Digital Edition of A General History of The Pyrates
Numerous sections of this project were completed for my M.A. Thesis in the Collaborative Progam in the Digital Humanities with the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University. However, it remains a work in progress that is still being updated.
It is a digital critical edition that consists of a parallel-text reading to visualize the changes in 4 editions of A General History of the Pyrates, printed between 1724 and 1726. The work has been attributed to Daniel Defoe, the author of Robinson Crusoe among many other titles, though this attribution is contested. For more information and to see the most up-to-date version of my work please visit the page about my Thesis by clicking here or on the image of the Title Page below.
(click on the image of the Title Page above or here to view the project)
The UVic's Image Mark-Up tool including my own XML metadata was used to produce a digitized visualization and description of the headpiece ornament from Recto 3 of Daniel Defoe's/Capt. Charles Johnson's A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers &c 2nd Edition (1742).
This project was produced for the Information Workshop: Architectures of the Book
Rated R for Reference: Reference Reform
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This video that demonstrates appropriate reference techniques and uses Camtasia's screen capture software to illustrate how clients navigate the Toronto Public Library website to access large print materials
This group project was created for the course Introduction to Reference produced with colleagues, Brendon Foster, Andrew Halberstadt & Anne-Marie Ricketts
Catalogue Records for Print Specimen Books
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These are three examples of original catalogue records I produced during my practicum at Massey College's Robertson Davies Library that are now available through the University of Toronto's Libraries catalogue. They were produced using Cataloguer's Desktop and SirsiDynix Symphony Workflows software, by applying the AACR2 and using LC authorities subject and genre headings. They required tremendous attention to detail and examining each page of these works, which often exceeded 1000 pages.
Each of the above links will first take you to a screen shoot of the MARC record produced for the work and a link to the UTL record.
Refugee Archive of Canada
As general editor for the Refugee Archive of Canada my responsibilities included compiling, editing, ensuring consistent and proper citation in accordance with the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, and formatting the layout and design of this final report.
This final report was produced for an Information Workshop: 4th World Documentation. It was written by five colleagues, though all twenty-five members of the workshop contributed to different portions of the document.
For a completed list of contributors see page one of the document.
THIS SECTION IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION: I have migrated the database to the server used by my web-hosting company , but am currently reconstructing it using PHP as the cgi script it originally contained will not function with my current web-hosting service. Plus I'm having fun learning PHP!
RIVeting Books is a database for an online bookstore that was created using Python, MySQL, and HTML it was also wrapped a cgi script written by our professor and hosted on the University of Toronto's server. It contains 146 works searchable by title or author. and allows users to place orders, view the number of items in stock, review and rate a work and see other peoples' comments and ratings. It also features a separate manager's interface that allows one to validate orders and shipments and update the stock number for each title.
RIVetting Books was created for the course Data Modeling and Database Design as a group project with Victoria Powell and Richard McKibbon.
A Critical Digital Edition of A General History of The Pyrates
This is a work in progress being constantly updated for my MA Thesis in the collaborative progam English and the Digital Humanities at Carleton University