Class 4 (English 238 – Fall 2019)

Class Business

Enrollment
Further thoughts or questions about:
- research proposal?
- blog post (see Assignments)
Readings for next class

Plan for class:

Discussion
- Text
- Digital Data Structures
- Stranger Things
- Back to Digital Data Structures

Text

Chart from Yin Liu, “Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People” (2013)

A text

Digital Data Structures (selected)

Markup
- SGML, HTML
  - XML, XHTML
  - TEI, etc.
- Higher-level concepts
  - Metadata
  - Namespace
  - Schema
  - OHCO (Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects)
Relational database (“table,” “record”)
Objects
- Key-value pairs
- Dictionaries
- Arrays
Linked Data
- RDF (Resource Description Framework)
- Provenance (PROV)

Examples from Wikipedia article on "Data Structures" — Examples from Wikipedia article on “Data Structures”

Stranger Things

Early Modern mortality table from Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things out: Classification and Its Consequences
William Wordsworth, from “Tintern Abbey”
The New Critics (and the “Metaphysical” Poets)
- Cleanth Brooks, “The Heresy of Paraphrase” (from The Well Wrought Urn, 1947)
- John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (c. 1611-12)
Structuralism & Deconstruction

Back to Digital Data Structures

[See above]