Jeff Barry
Associate Professor & Associate University Librarian, Washington and Lee University
Scholarly Text Encoding
DH 190
Week 1 / January 16, 2015
Jeff Barry
- barryj@wlu.edu
- x8641
- Leyburn M38
- Office hours: T 9-11am
Mackenzie Brooks
- brooksm@wlu.edu
- x8659
- Leyburn 110A
- Office hours: M 9-10am, R 3-4pm
Introductions
Associate Professor & Associate University Librarian
Assistant Professor & Metadata Librarian
how this course is different
- Librarians!
- Digital Humanities
- DH Studio concept
- FREN 341 relationship
This course will last you forever
Not just about creating Web sites for
historical writings
literature
medieval manuscripts
The underlying technologies are part of many careers
skills: XML, TEI
or even a career itself
Master of Information
First three class sessions:
examples
why
how
issues in editing/preparing a digital text for a scholarly audience
Origins and development of textual markup languages
HTML & TEI
It's not magic
It's logic
“In the next fifty years the entirety of our inherited archive of cultural works will have to be reedited within a network of digital storage, access, and dissemination”.
Jerome McGann, A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction 2014.
HTML
Try it!
The Internet
The Web
Group Breakout #1
Examine the WLU TEI WordPress site: tei.academic.wlu.edu
Q: Have you used WordPress before?
Create a WP account on the TEI site
Editing a simple post with text editor
simple page
more complex page
Site Deconstruction
Group Breakout #2
Examine a scholarly site:
Group Breakout #2
Think about...
- What organization(s) are responsible for this site?
- What years were this site produced? Is it still active?
- Describe the type of content.
- Does the site present page images?
- Does the site display the markup text?
- Site navigation
- Search/browse capabilities
- What's the purpose?
Readings for next week
keywords/phrases
McGann
digital illiteracy, scholarly publishing, interdisciplinary, peer-review, interpretational, born-digital, remediation, NINES, book technology, critical reflection
Earhart
scholarly edition, textual studies, facsimiles, data sets, digital literary studies
codex, philology, Google Books
Szpiech
Image sources
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014635606/
"GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689" by Sir Godfrey Kneller http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/art/portrait.html. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Illuminated medical manuscript, first leaf of text, 14th C. Wellcome Library, London
Blue Book Copy of Leaves of Grass [1860]. The Walt Whitman Archive
DH 190: lecture 1
By Jeff Barry
DH 190: lecture 1
After introductions and an overview, we’ll examine various Web sites as a means of demonstrating the functionality of markup languages and the structure of the Web. We’ll progress from ordinary Web pages based on HTML to scholarly sites built on TEI. We’ll also examine the course TEI Web site and get you started on adding content to that site.
