April 2003: The STG project Freedom Now!, An Archival Project of Tougaloo College and Brown University is featured at the Dean of the College's Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantships celebration. STG worked in collaboration with Professor Susan Smulyan, Professor Jim Campbell, and their research assistants to create this online archive of Civil Rights materials from the archives at Tougaloo College. more

May 2002: Kerri Hicks has been appointed to a three-year term on the Rhode Island Council on Assistive Technology (RICAT). more

January 2002: STG releases report on semantic heterogeneity in XML documents for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). more

January 2002: Syd Bauman has been named North American Editor of the TEI and has participated in the first TEI Council in London, UK. more

Fall-Winter 2001-2002: This year's STG Faculty Grant Program started in September and is continuing throughout the winter. "Thinking Technology" the program's associated seminar series meets monthly.

December 2001: The Boccaccio project is expanding. Two new lightly SGML-encoded texts have been released, in collaboration with the Italian Studies department: Corbaccio and Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta.

December 2001: Julia Flanders attended the MLA Annual convention in New Orleans. more

December 2001: The year 2001 STG publications list is now available.

October 2001: Syd Bauman has been named Interim North American Editor of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. more

September 2001: David Reville, former STG Acting Director, has been nominated STG Interim Director

September 2001: the Women Writers project has reached a new licensing milestone with 220 subscribers.

September 2001: the Multimedia Lab website has been completely redesigned.

August 2001: the new STG consulting section has been added to the STG website.

Fall 2000: STG staff are participating in several conferences during the Fall: Archaeology of Multimedia; Attending to Women Conference; CLiP 2000; Electronic Ebook 2000; Oral History (joint OHMAR and AOHE) conference; Multimedia Information Systems 2000. more

October 2000: Allen Renear, STG Director, has accepted a position at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. more

October 2000: STG is a participant in a 5 year grant awarded to Brown University by the National Science Foundation. more

October 2000: STG has been awarded a one year grant to continue research and development of Open Electronic Book standards. more

October 2000: STG is the host for the fourth international Digital Arts & Culture Conference, being held April 26-28, 2001.

September 2000: The Women Writers Project marks the first full year of Women Writers Online, first published in September 1999. The collection now has over 160 institutional subscribers, and includes over 200 texts.

September 2000: The STG website, which was completely redesigned in May 2000, has now a newly organized publications section.

August 2000: The SGML encoded Decameron (in Italian), with its detailed searches on characters, geographic locations and word strings, is now provided with a closely parallel SGML-structured English translation.

Summer 2000: STG staff members are participating in several conferences during Summer 2000, including ALLC/ACH 2000, ALA, Extreme Markup and DRH 2000.

May 2000: The STG website was completely redesigned in May 2000. In addition to the new look and more manageable layout, we have revised our staff pages and have created indexcards for each of STG's projects that provide a brief abstract and critical facts.

May 2000: STG and the Multimedia Lab have coordinated the first virtual reunion and live webcast of Brown University's commencement ceremonies during the weekend of May 26-29, 2000.

March 2000: STG and the Multimedia Lab have sponsored from today, a conference, including workshops and a film festival, that explored the impact of electronic tools on the production and distribution of documentary work.
(March 15-17, 2000 at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island)

January 2000: We participated in the development of the Open eBook Publication Structure, an XML-based specification for hand-held electronic books. Also, in collaboration with Nuvomedia, we have produced an OEB validation service to simplify the creation of documents compliant with these specifications.

January 2000: We designed the website prospect, an anthology of creative nonfiction. It contains works written in classes taught by Catherine Imbriglio and Elizabeth Taylor, Lecturers in the Department of English, Brown University.

September 1999:: The Women Writers Project textbase is now available on-line. It contains approximately 200 works and additional supporting materials. Detailed text encoding (using the TEI Guidelines) and a powerful search interface make the WWP an outstanding research tool as well as a rich source for early women's writing. To subscribe.

Fall 1999: The SGML encoding of the Italian text of Boccaccio's Decameron allows for detailed searches on specific features of characters, geographic locations and word strings in the narrative.

Fall 1999: We created Writing Vietnam, a website that continues and extends the work of the Writing Vietnam Conference held on April 21-23 1999 by Elizabeth Taylor, Lecturer in the Department of English, Brown University.

August 1999: We have redesigned the ACH (Association for Computers and the Humanities) website. It now includes a database of conference abstracts.