My first major XML project, taking data from the printed Български диалектен атлас, marking it up in XML, and using XSLT to group the data in a variety of ways to help bring patterns in the data to light. Dynamic maps using the Google Maps API are also included.
For three years, I've been documenting (and, subsequently, analyzing) graffiti from university libraries, mostly from public study areas. (I prefer to avoid latrinalia.) I've been told this makes me a folklorist.
Since I can't wear geeky t-shirts to work, I now print and sew my own geeky business casual, with inspiration drawn from medieval Slavic, open source, manuscripts, and bizarre alphabets.
This project aims to develop XML resources to facilitate research into the Novgorod birchbark letters. Transforming existing indices such as those found in Zaliznjak 2004 into machine-readable XML enables us to perform statistical calculations on the data, and brings to light statistically significant patterns that would be difficult for a scholar to recognize due to the size of the corpus.
I've been taking at least one picture of something beautiful every day for nearly three years. They're almost all freely available to use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
The Slavic linguistics wiki was conceived of as a specialist Wikipedia, where all the original sources are cited (down to the page), to reduce the scholar's need to comb through bibliographies and references in a pile of printed works or PDFs to see what's been said by scholars.
