• The Early Web
  • The first Web page (1992)
  • Olia Lialina, “A Vernacular Web: The Indigenous and The Barbarians” (2005)
• HTML Resources & Tools
  • Text editors (e.g., Notepad or Notepad++ for Windows, TextEdit or BBEdit for Mac) & Code editors
  • Early HTML editors (eg., SoftQuad HoTMetaL, Macromedia Dreamweaver)
  • Current “middleware” and template platforms where HTML is written into and out of a database (e.g., WordPress)
    • See diagrams in Alan Liu, “From Reading to Social Computing” (2013)
• TEI Resources & Tools
  • Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) P5 Guidelines
    • Table of Contents
      • Of special interest in P5 Gkuidlines: “prosopography” markup in Seciton 13 on “Names, Dates, People, and Places” (e.g., “Personal Characteristics”)
• Ontologies
  • Simple overview of ontologies and the Web Ontology Language (OWL) for the so-called “semantic web”: Ontotext, “What Are Ontologies?” (n. d.)
  • More advanced overview of ontology and OWL ontology for the web: Jeff Heflin, “An Introduction to the OWL Web Ontology Language” (2007)
• “Linked Data” and “Semantic Web”
  • W3C, “RDF 1.1 Primer” (2014) (Note: ‘RDF’ = “Resource Description Framework”)
    • See esp. “3. RDF Data Model”
• Examples of digital humanities projects working with TEI, ontologies, and linked data
  • Orlando Project
    • Susan Brown et al., “Cultural (Re-)Formations: Structuring a Linked Data Ontology for Intersectional Identities” (2017) — images from paper
• Professional-level tools for TEI and ontology work (examples)
  • Oxygen XML Editor
  • Protégé ontology editor
    • e.g., UCSB English Dept’s “Research + Activism Bibliography” project (directed by Alan Liu), which uses WebProtégé to assist with ontology of its tags.
• Current and future uses of text encoding for scholary and other work — examples
  • WordHoard
  • EVT – Edition Visualization Technology (demo)
  • Stephan Thiel, visualizations of Shakespeare

• Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (English translation, 1968).

• Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects (OHCO) model of text
  • Steven J. DeRose et al., “What Is Text, Really?” (1990)
    • Especially pp. 5-7
  • Susan Hockey, Allen Renear, and Jerome J. McGann, “What Is Text? A Debate on the Philosophical and Epistemological Nature of Text in the Light of Humanities Computing Research” (1999)
  • Wendell Piez, “Balisage Paper: Hierarchies within Range Space (From LMNL to OHCO)” (2014)
• Document Object Model (DOM)

  

• William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798”

Homer, The Odyssey

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy.

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
In the beginning how the heavens and earth
Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed
Fast by the oracle of God, I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th’ Aonian mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all temples th’ upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for thou know’st; thou from the first
Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,
Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss,
And mad’st it pregnant: what in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That, to the height of this great argument,
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.