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Class 5 Notes

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Preliminary Class Business

 

  • Enrollment
  • Preview of readings and practicum for Class 6

  • Teams to be formed in Class 6

(continued from last class) Mapping Literature

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


1. Encoding Literature

 

  • Practical question: How can texts be encoded to make them usable in the age of computers? (see Geoffrey Rockwell, "What is Text Analysis?")

 

  • Larger question: What is text in the age of data?

 

  • Foundational (historical) question: What is text?

 

Table 1 from Yin Liu article(Link to Yin Liu article)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


2. The Modernization of Text

 

scriptio continua 

 

 

 

  • "Blob" (Binary Large Object)

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"Blob" definition

 

  • Presentational, procedural, and descriptive (structural, semantic) markup  (Wikipedia article on "Markup Language")

 

 

Descriptive Encoding / Markup

 

  • The idea of a "document" 

Documents and Document Object Model

 


3. Some Problems of Modern Text Encoding

 

The Problem of OHCO - "Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects"

 

The Problem of "Content" vs. "Format"

 

 


5. Student Encoding Exercises

 

 

 

 

 

 

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