Traversing_the_Tree/: Exploring Ontological and Pragmatic Approaches to Markup Theory in Digital Humanities

Authors

  • Gabrielle Kirilloff

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/forbes5.2012.26

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References

“A Companion to Digital Humanities,” ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. http://www. digitalhumanities.org/companion/

To view multiple versions of Songs of Innocence and Experience go to “The William Blake Archive”: http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

Also, to compare the different punctuation used in versions of The Night see: http://www.gk.obdurodon.org/Blake.html

XML was intended as a type of descriptive markup. For more information on the different types of markup, see: Coombs, James H., Allen H. Renear, and Steven J. DeRose. “Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing.” Association for Computing Machinery. 30. November 1987.

This example is from my own research, “Exploring Speech in Russian Fairy Tales,” which is documented at: http://gk.obdurodon.org/projectLog.xhtml

This idea can be tied into practice theory. For more information see: Scifleet, Paul and Susan P. Williams “Practice Theory and the Foundations of Digital Document Encoding.” Association for Computing Machinery.

Often in XML tag names camel case is used. In creating tag names spaces cannot be used, so words are often joined.

See: http://donne.obdurodon.org/poetry.html This site contains a project under development by a student in the course, “Computation Methods in the Humanities” (ENGLIT 1610) at the University of Pittsburgh.

“SGML: The Reason Why and the First Published Hint:” http://www. sgmlsource.com/history/jasis.htm. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 48.7 (July 1997).

“Practice theory & the foundations of digital document encoding.” SIGDOC 2009 Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 213-220.

Danielewski, Mark Z. House of Leaves. New York: Pantheon, 2000. 98-99, Print.

For the source of this image see: http://onjava.com/onjava/2001/02/08/dom.html

For more information see: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p4- doc/html/SG.html

Renear, Allen, Elli Mylonas, and David Durand, “Refining our No tion of What Text Is.” Research in Humanities Computer, N. Ide and S. Hockey (eds.), 1996.

Lederer, Richard. A Man of My Words: Reflections on the English Language. New York: St. Martin’s, 2003. 108. Print.

Ibid.

Derose, J. Stephen, David G. Durand, Elli Mylonas, and Allen H. Renear “What is Text, Really?” Journal of Computing in Higher Education. 1.2 (1990): 3-26.

Renear, Allen, Elli Mylonas, and David Durand, “Refining our Notion of What Text Is.”

Ibid.

Danielewski, House of Leaves.

A few particularly strong examples of this are: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne, The Prague Cemetery, by Umberto Eco, and Spring and All by William Carlos Williams.

For a discussion of previous text encoding approaches, see: Derose, J. Stephen, David G. Durand, Elli Mylonas, and Allen H. Renear “What is Text, Really?”

Renear, Allen, Elli Mylonas, and David Durand, “Refining our Notion of What Text Is.”

Ramsay, Stephen. “On Building”: http://lenz.unl.edu/papers/2011/01/11/on-building.html

For more information on CONCUR, see: http://conferences.idealliance.org/extreme/html/2005/Witt01/EML2005Witt01.xml and Renear, Allen, Elli Mylonas, and David Durand, “Refining our Notion of What Text Is.”

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2012-04-01

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