Class Business
- Reading for Next Class
- Ryan Heuser and Long Le-Khac, “A Quantitative Literary History of 2,958 Nineteenth-Century British Novels: The Semantic Cohort Method” (2012)
- Practicum 3 (by class 7 next Thursday): Text Analysis Exercise
- Due Oct. 20th: Project Concept Proposal 1 (Text Analysis Project Proposal)
Practicum 2: Text Encoding Exercise
Student outputs
HTML exercise
- Anya Macomber
- Angeleen so
- Jake Houser
- Benjamin Behle
- Stella Jia
E. E. Cummings, “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r” (1935)
TEI exercise
- 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”)
- Table of Contents
- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) P5 Guidelines
- 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”
- W3C, “RDF 1.1 Primer” (2014) (Note: ‘RDF’ = “Resource Description Framework”)
- 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
- Orlando Project
- 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
Discussion of Text Encoding
Alan Liu, “Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse” (2004) (read only pp. 49-57)
William Blake, “The Sick Rose” (from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789)
- Facsimile Reproduction
“The Sick Rose”
(Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789, 1794 ; Copy C; The Blake Archive, object 37) - Transcription
O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy. - Markup
William Blake, “The Sick Rose” (1794) — simplified example of text-encoding markup.
- 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)
- Steven J. DeRose et al., “What Is Text, Really?” (1990)
Document Object Model (DOM)
Document Object Model (DOM diagram (from Alan Liu, Friending the Past, figure 5.8) - William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798”
“Data Pours”
- WordPress “The Loop”
- SQL qyery — e.g., ““SELECT * FROM Artists ORDER BY LastName, FirstName, Dates, Nation”
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.
