It's the 10th 😱 anniversary of my Literature PhD defense (all-DH/no chapters: code, UX, blog...) w/core work=my Infinite Ulysses digital edition for interactive reading/annotating/discussing Joyce's hard novel in public. Static site archive/tour version=currently broken (known fix, no time 🙃) but! + - ThreadSky

literaturegeek.bsky.social • 53 days ago

It's the 10th 😱 anniversary of my Literature PhD defense (all-DH/no chapters: code, UX, blog...) w/core work=my Infinite Ulysses digital edition for interactive reading/annotating/discussing Joyce's hard novel in public. Static site archive/tour version=currently broken (known fix, no time 🙃) but! +

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literaturegeek.bsky.social•52 days ago

So grateful to advisor @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social & committee members @kmkraus.bsky.social @fraistat.bsky.social who mentored me regularly throughout my whole degree (not just at the end!) & for their generosity, kindness, time, enthusiasm, advice—truly exemplary teachers+allies 💜

triproftri.bsky.social•52 days ago

Wow! It was a brilliant culminating representation of how far you pushed those boundaries successfully! I was super jazzed when I saw your work :)

Reminds me that my diss is 20 years old! Best I could do was a 1 chp digital "hypertextual" archive + 10 word chps under the limitations...but shazam!

literaturegeek.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thank you, and congrats on your 20 years of dissertation & post-dissertation innovative scholarship!

literaturegeek.bsky.social•52 days ago

If you've read my recent @jitp.bsky.social piece arguing "rigor" is now a useless+harmful term that fails to build innovative, thorough scholarship & a creative +effective+widening knowledge community for all, my main inspirations are them+SLab colleagues. A+ mentorship can just be a gift w/o harm.

kmkraus.bsky.social•52 days ago

Your dissertation project still serves as a model for others here at UMD! Couldn’t begin to estimate the number of times it’s been invoked over the years.

literaturegeek.bsky.social•52 days ago

💜

mkirschenbaum.bsky.social•52 days ago

Happy disserversary!!

literaturegeek.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thank you! How has it been ten years/how has it only been ten years?!

literaturegeek.bsky.social•53 days ago

I just heard an unexpected +lovely gift: @ilya.webrecorder.net put my 2015-era digipreservation capture into a Webrecorder player on a simple GH site, & now you can see much* of what the interactive Drupal site looked/felt like!: https://infiniteulysses.webrecorder.net

literaturegeek.bsky.social•52 days ago

A huge thank you @ilya.webrecorder.net for this unexpected kindness during a hard time! Now much more likely I'll get https://Infiniteysses.com non-interactive/archival version back up (interactive version is never reopening, I'm a reformed Joycean now lol)

bitarchivist.net•52 days ago

Glad that brought you some joy! With the approach described at https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03-25-govarchive-us-and-mirroring-sites-with-web-archives/ it should even be possible to put it back up at the original domain powered by the web archive so that original URLs resolve again :)

literaturegeek.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thank you!

literaturegeek.bsky.social•53 days ago

* = Some issues (some fixable) from what I captured at the time, eg can't read past 1st page of each chapter; can't log in, save annotations, filter/sort annotations by tags/user/etc—major feature was filtering to just those annotations of use to your own reading: https://literaturegeek.com/2013/12/16/speculative-experiment-useful-here-and-now

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