• 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”

• WordPress “The Loop”
• SQL qyery — e.g., ““SELECT * FROM Artists ORDER BY LastName, FirstName, Dates, Nation”

• Current and future uses of text encoding for scholary and other work — examples
  • WordHoard
  • EVT – Edition Visualization Technology (demo)
  • Stephan Thiel, visualizations of Shakespeare

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.