Many thanks to Dr. Susan Schreibman for welcoming us to MITH. I had never visited the space down in the depths of Mount Doom...I mean McKeldin Library (ahh, it reminds me of the old library before the renovation...when McKeldin used to be called the Morgue).

There are some interesting projects going on in MITH. I thought there would be a bit more fanfare to the space. There's only a little teeny sign and really low ceilings. Walking around -- Christina gave us a tour -- it was kind of like being at a little dot.com that could.

Dr. Schreibman talked about MITH, went through a couple of examples of the work done by MITH, did a race through of XML, and ended with a discussion of textarc, which I thought was pretty amazing. I wish there was a share version of textarc -- it would be interesting to plug my own work into it and see what kinds of words, ideas I focus on. It would also be neat to think about a textsphere where words are plotted along three axes.

Thanks for the summary Ed, sounds like it was time well spent.

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