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06/26/2013

Right now there is a google hangout discussing imageMAT! Click here to join!

University of Waterloo Stratford Campus Hangout on Air

06/26/2013

Check out this introductory video of our web tool imageMAT!

ImageMAT is the markup and annotation tool that enables researchers to closely analyze images, markup, annotate, share and collaborate, all at the same time....

04/26/2013

Today Christine McWebb is doing a Demo of the Image Markup Annotation Tool (ImateMAT) at HASTAC2013, currently taking place at York University! If you are close, stop by an check it out!

04/11/2013

Christine McWebb had a fascinating interview with Rex Murphy on last Sunday's Cross-Country Checkup on the Future of the book in a digital age! Check it out!

Does the book have a future in a digital age?

04/10/2013

We are very excited to share these good news! MARGOT's project "CANTUS for Office and Mass: New Online Tools for Textual-Melodic Input, Search, and Analysis of Mass Chants" has won the 2013-14 SSHRC Insight Grant competition!

03/17/2013

Call for Papers: CMS Conference – Digitizing the Medieval Archive Digitizing the Medieval Archive: An International Conference Centre for Medieval Studies ⋅ University of Toronto ⋅ March 27-29, 201...

03/11/2013

The Duenna's Lessons in The Roman de la Rose: "And if she does not have the leisure to go to his dwelling to speak with him, nor dares receive him at her own because her jealous husband keeps her shut up so much, then, if she can, she should get her husband drunk if she knows no better way to set herself free. And if she cannot make him drunk on wine, she can take a pound of herbs more or less, which, at no danger to herself, she can get him to eat or drink. Then he will sleep so deeply that while he is sleeping he will leave her free for whatever she wants, for he will be unable to deflect her from anything."

02/28/2013

Dear friends, as you know we've been working on a web based image markup and annotation tool for the past two years called ImageMAT. Now we are testing it, so if you would be interested in giving us one hour of your time we would really appreciate it! The test consists in following a short scenario that we will give you. Then you will have to follow it and write down your observations regarding aesthetics and functionality. At the end there will be a short survey that you will have to take. That's it! Who knows? Maybe you will like it and keep using it for academic or private reasons!!! If you would like to volunteer let us know in the comments or by private message. THANKS!!!

12/04/2012

Lady Reason goes on to define love as follows: "It is enraged happiness. Sweet pain, malicious sweetness, ill-smelling sweet perfume. [Love] is a sin tarnished by pardon; pardon tarnished by sin. It is suffering which is too joyous, it is a piteous cruelty. It is a pleasantry which is not secure, a state too powerful and too fickle. It is an infirm force, a strong infirmity that moves all by its efforts. It is foolish reason, it is wise folly; sad and appealing prosperity. It is laughter filled with tears and weeping; rest which constantly labours. It is sweet hell, it is painful paradise,it is the prison which solaces captivity; spring full of cold winter."

11/30/2012

"Love is hateful peace, love is hate in love. It is disloyal loyalty, it is loyal disloyalty; it is fear that is completely confident, it is hope in despair. It is reason completely mad, it is reasonable madness; it is sweet danger of drowning, chagrin easily handled. It is treacherous Charybdis, repellent but lovely. It is healthy languor, it is very sick health; it is hunger drunk with abundance, it is satisfaction always covetous. It is thirst always drunk, drunkenness intoxicated by thirst. It is false delight, it is joyous sadness..." Lady Reason's definition of love. Le Roman de la Rose.

11/23/2012

University of Waterloo Stratford Campus Director of Academic Programs Christine McWebb was a guest of the Digital Humanities Speaker Series on November 22nd, 2012. She shared the new approach to teaching and research being used at the Stratford Campus. Part of it involved discussing the ImageMAT tool being developed under MARGOT for interdisciplinary studies.

11/21/2012

MARGOT is also involved in a long term project along side John Hopkins University to create the Christine de Pizan Digital Scriptorium. Soon scholars will have access to the complete works of Christine de Pizan in a digital format. Detailed codicological information will also be provided!