This past weekend, I had the pleasure of traveling to Saskatoon to present the Digital Texts 2.0 project at CaSTA 2008 (Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis). This year’s theme was New Directions in Text Analysis. As Digital Texts 2.0 aims to develop new ways of finding, managing, and using digital texts in the context of social networking, and was built with users of the Text Analysis Portal for Resarch (TAPoR) in mind, our application fit this theme quite well. It was also a good opportunity to present our work to an audience that represents many of the characteristics of interaction with digital texts that we have been building the application to cater toward.

Everyone at the conference was very welcoming, and gave valuable feedback on various aspects of the project. Thanks very much to Brent Nelson, who was the primary organizer of the conference at University of Saskatchewan, and to everyone who attended the session.

Here are the slides that I presented:

And the Demo video from the slides, put together by Stéfan Sinclair:

A video of my presentation (forgive the camera angle). This is posted for posterity, and as a record of my very first academic conference presentation (on my birthday nonetheless)! It’s about 33 minutes long including Q&A:

Finally, the poster that accompanied my presentation (click to view larger):