New birchbark XML: names in context (NIC)

June 27th 2010
To enable a more interesting proof-of-concept for the birchbark letter XML project, I've spent the last week making a new, limited data set (all documents from 1100-1120, plus some documents with the same names from the 12th century... read more

Early results from a birchbark letter proof-of-concept

June 27th 2010
The frustrating thing about attempting a proof-of-concept for the birchbark letters is that many of the calculations I find most interesting need to be run over the entire corpus-- which means a lot more data preparation than I currently have finished... read more

The state of the birchbark letters XML project

June 19th 2010
I was hoping to delay this until I had the Subversion repository ready to distribute the first versions of the XML, but setting it up is taking a bit longer than I anticipated. I'm working on a proof-of-concept for the kinds of analysis that can be done using the name and date indices together... read more

Installing Cocoon on Ubuntu

April 14th 2010
10/11/10 -- This guide was written for Intrepid, and doesn't work on the latest Ubuntu releases. An updated and working version of the guide is available here [/blog/2010/12/10/installing-cocoon-on-ubuntu-10-04-or-10-10]... read more

Bulgarian Dialect Atlas at the 17th Meeting of the Balkan and South Slavic

April 13th 2010
Andy and I will be demoing the Bulgarian Dialect Atlas on April 17th at the 17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference [http://bss17.osu.edu/program.html] at the Ohio State University. The slides [/assets/files/dombrowski2_2010_slides.pdf] and handout [/assets/files/dombrowski2_2010.pdf] will be posted after the talk... read more