Document Analysis Day

Hark a Vagrant!

DH 190: Scholarly Text Encoding

Week 3 // January 26, 2016

Prof. Mackenzie Brooks

"Cracking the Code"

Most of you self-identified as "digital enthusiasts." How do you hold up against Szpiech?

1. Identify three of Ryan's arguments against the "digital."

2. Craft counter-points to those three arguments (bullet points or a couple sentences).

3. Share your choices with your partner/group. Help each other strengthen your defenses, or play devil's advocate.

4. Select your favorite argument to share with the room.

Document Analysis

Equally infinite choices in what to markup. Markup is always interpretation.

• You can markup what is there.
• You can markup what you choose to find there
• You can markup what is only implicitly there (tagging silences)

Document Analysis

• structure
• genre
• audience
• purpose

Document Analysis

• linguistic features
• presentational features
• structural/rhetorical features

Document Analysis

• list all the features of your document 

• why are they significant?

• can you categorize them?

• how do they relate to each other?

• does this document need more contextual information? annotation?

• is there anything weird or difficult?

• are there any overlapping hierarchies? structural challenges?

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Let's try our hand at troubadour poetry...

Oxygen Assignment

1. Download the Oxygen XML editor from https://www.oxygenxml.com/
2. You should be prompted for a license key. This will be in the Sakai assignment. You must paste in all 9 lines of text.
3. Explore the software on your own. Try to learn what all the icons do by clicking on them or reading the documentation.
4. Take a look at this exercise (or this one) and see what you can replicate on your own.