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Elisa Beshero-Bondar

@epyllia.bsky.social

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Adventurer in Digital Humanities. Builds, analyzes, visualizes, activates w/ #TEI and #XSLT. TEI Technical Council Chair, 2023–. Prof of DH | Program Chair of DIGIT at Penn State Behrend (she/they) Mastodon: [email protected]

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for the detailed review! I've been exploring AI in the context of processing informational tree structures (XML and JSON documents) as a coding aid and maybe found something similar: a problem (I think in LLMs under the hood) with coping w/ nested hierarchies, + even simple markup of "...".

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 2d

Here's an article for our students! I remember when the WWW, hypertext links, + browsers were new, but to my students it's always been there...The article tells of the web's origins in context w/ the era of Big Tech's AI. That context is urgent for us all just now.
web.archive.org/web/20251001...

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

web.archive.org

Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 19d

We digital humanities people know the TEI as a “scholarly technology” with enormous thanks to @juliaflanders.bsky.social and our community working together intelligently, cooperatively, and imaginatively over the years. We are the #TEI!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 19d

Our closing keynote for #TEI2025 is @juliaflanders.bsky.social , who speaks earnestly of TEI’s ongoing relevance in an ethical formulation of our technologies and data structures.

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 19d

Next TEI Conference: August 10–15, 2026, Vancouver, BC Canada.
@teiconsortium.bsky.social

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Patricia O'Connor @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social · 19d

💻The #EpiDoc maintainers will be hosting a monthly online drop-in session (1 hour per month).
📨 Please feel free to come with questions, encoding difficulties, or just to listen in on the conversation.
📅The next session is Wednesday, October 22: 17:00 BST = 18:00 CEST = 19:00 EEST = 12:00 EDT

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 19d

Join the TEI, they said. (For me? My research certainly became more worldly wise.) We are the TEI, indeed—we have a keynote about that coming up. www.tei-c.org

Text Encoding Initiative

www.tei-c.org

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 19d

Text Encoding is an ongoing Initiative and our annual conference is for all of us who care about “yesterday’s information tomorrow.”—now including born-digital media! Join us as a member! And come to the 2026 TEI Conference in Vancouver! #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social @joeytakeda.bsky.social

Joey Takeda introduces the TEI 2026 Conference in Vancouver !

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21d

@teiconsortium.bsky.social

Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21d

Close up of slide calling for greater recognition for digital scholarly editing

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21d

At #TEI2025 the opening keynote Jadwiga Kita-Huber emphasizes the need for universities in Poland to recognize digital scholarly editions as research for the faculty and scholarly community! This is serious research—and this needs to be respected!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21d

Standing to the side, listening with amusement, is our host and eminent stylometer, Jan Rybicki.

Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21d

Here, @djakacki.bsky.social and I collaborate in a big thank you statement to the hosts and supporters of #digitalhumanities at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social from the
@teiconsortium.bsky.social . We love being here in Kraków for TEI 2025!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Sep 7

I'm going to guess that the XSLT is run before posting to the website because that's how most of my own projects work. But client-side XSLT in the browser would be an excellent possibility!

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · Aug 16

Lol...😅🎶🤣

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Aug 16

#digitalhumanities #dh

Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Aug 16

On 2025-08-15, The #TEI released TEI Guidelines version 4.10.0, "The Olinguito Release” + version 7.59.0 of the TEI Stylesheets. Release notes: www.tei-c.org/release/doc/...
On olinguitos: www.si.edu/stories/olin...

mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/13/1101oling...

@teiconsortium.bsky.social

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Jul 18

Can this be enough?

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Jul 18

At #dh2025 @roopikarisam.bsky.social emphasizes an ethic of care at the heart of minimal computing at every level of our lives’ work in digital humanities. 💜

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Jul 18

Celebrating the ADHO leadership of Michael Eberle Sinatra fittingly with an iconic gift!

A gift of sneakers to just the right person

Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Jul 18

Locations for next ADHO conferences:
2026 : Daejeon, South Korea
2027: Galway, Ireland
2028: Capetown, South Africa !

dh2026.adho.org

#dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028

DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea

dh2026.adho.org

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Jul 16

Likewise, sorry! This conference is enormous!

Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Jul 16

We are so excited to be presenting shortly at #dh2025 on making a small explainable AI model “DigitAI” w/ our knowledge graph made from the #TEI Guidelines, and the declarative power of XSLT 3 (and 4) in work like this! Here are our slides!
1. bit.ly/digitai-dh25
2. bit.ly/xslt-2025

DIGIT AI for Localized TEI/XML Assistance

A presentation about a small explainable AI project to fine-tune a language model with a graph RAG built with the TEI Guidelines.

bit.ly

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Jul 15

Delighted to be learning from Javier Cha (opening keynote at #DH2025) about the RAG modeling we’re exploring now! I love how he tracks the progress from Cytoscape network viz to neo4j graph modeling in small systems for humanities data!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · Jul 14

Excited to learn the latest about Voyant/Spyral the #dh2025 workshops!