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