It’s been an eventful month here at VHL HQ. Guyda and I have just submitted a paper proposal to a publication, and separately from that I’ve submitted a couple of others, for conferences. We’ve set up people with encoding, which for now seems to be going well. Have met with Rala and Matt regarding Villani – I’ll let them expound on that. Esposizioni work seems to be going well too: I have repeatedly met with Roberto, who is kicking pretty seriously on the encoding; and Cristiana, Guyda and Mike have been researching aspects of the text.

Paul and I have started talking about the overall structure of the interface. For now, we’re focusing on the seminar room features, which will be the most widely used; he is thinking about back-end architecture and I am playing with layouts. For now, there’s a lot of preliminary dirty work on this front; as soon as there’s something concrete to share, we’ll post.