Yesterday Travis and I gave a presentation about eComma for the Third Friday series sponsored by UT’s Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services. LAITS has funded the development of eComma since its inception, and the LAITS staff have been enthusiastic supporters and advisers as we’ve proceeded with the project. We were glad to be able to give them a fuller picture of our development history and of our goals for Version 1.0. The Powerpoint presentation that Travis delivered is available here for download; we also performed a short demo using an updated version of our first solid prototype.
Following our presentation, Jim Henson from LAITS described recent updates to the Texas Politics Project, which offers a wealth of polling information about Texas to all interested researchers (and received lots of media attention during the presidential election for that very reason).
At the moment, we’re preparing eComma for its upcoming supporting role in the Ransom Center’s Spring 2009 exhibition The Persian Sensation: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West. The exhibition will feature a Collaborative Rubáiyát powered by eComma, accessible in the gallery and by online visitors. We’re very excited to be working with the Ransom Center to produce this interactive tool.