Achieving comity: disciplinary border crossings with Guy Aston

Allegiances

• And what do you do?

This talk

• some graphics
• some bulleted lists
• mostly text

a socio-historical approach

Clever boys/confused students

Holywell Manor, Oxford: May 1967

Preaching in Parma

October 1992: Electronic Resources for Textual Studies

... TLAs to pitch for

• BNC
• TEI
• DRH
• HCU
• etc

Fame at last

Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative meeting, Haiensa, October 1994

BNC goals

BNC goals

The BNC Handbook in production

Oxford: March 1994

(And yes, it was authored in TEI)

and published!

First Forli Workshop, 1997

The survivors

Workshop programme (2004)

The Double Act

The Double Act

The Astonian Method

• explore the data: be open to surprise
• don't simplify the data

The Astonian Method: first example

The Astonian Method

The Astonian Method: serendipitity strikes

The Astonian Method: serendipitity strikes

Second example

Second example

Second example

Second example

Second example

Second example

Millenial wanderings

TaLCs

media/talcSummary.pdf

DDL is stilluseful

ex auctoritate corpus

.... because it still works

(Boulton, Researching data-driven learning: Past, present, future, TaLC 2018)

Thank you for your attention!