• Julia Pennlert, research seminar on "Poetryprocesses on the Web: How is web-based poetry 'social'?" Tuesday, Oct 15th at 2:00 pm, Transcriptions South Hall 2509  
• Preview of readings and practicum for Class 4
• Books to buy by next class: Moretti, Jockers
• Liz Shayne on text-analysis tools being made available in SH 2509

Student Text-encoding Exercises

Focal Question  

What is text from the point of view of data; what is data from the point of view of text?

• À + " ÿÄ ¸  !1AQa"2q‘¡±ÁBR#Ñbr3Ⴒsð’¢ÂCSc$4%5³ñ҃ⓣTt&Ãd6D    !1AQqa"2‘±r¡ÁB3ðÑ‚Rb#áñCsƒcÿÚ ? ã “kVœl®¼«"Ö7£1¤·Š½²L’ÉÇ·æ/Æ¥ÓpãÊËŽŸÒÍŒœvß"Ž‡dÝK1û \ÔaÁÈLIT‰ $)$m˜H6^áfKˆþxX©#ì#ÛP+­žd’eÈsºà#ááz¨(JP¤ªØ¶àñ¨é@Èr§ScOVGØ^×¾Š;ûjª¥‰¸E˜ÞB{M]QE¡G*uÕBHã³–Ø©Å58ª$=Eú¼£èèKåÊóèµêDÄezáY}ÎTó+‹QVwS„É‘„à]cKw_…hÖ_TÍýV#¿òYŠÉìÓêã\ÊqŽŒÚ¾åÜÄù¼ÓMß”£áqr-­]—ͻۃe±àF+‘”p÷ÖÜ+ÑæÔV£J{T”xE=«X"HÚœSÚœSB¨—þ];ݾ¥®º|M‘`d ó@¨ÿ Õ ƒô×)ý<ÆßR×s*ÿ Ëà§ü!õ-ý+®âS‹7Ñ£C¥³,f7a­þcTLãh¤à¬ ov•q7&Ü+Š1ž§O#Q\•Ïu¼`ó+pYÔÂç÷¸¡ø×C'*Ìê™±¥|àoOâ]EtpZ,Ž^E)˜=:_#ÿ ¶]oø×ÂÕ‘›†îدõ[QG;ì›Ö^i€ìÝá|j=Z!/    Wmÿ {Š×asAýG4IòãJ|Λ    ýà@5Éã7üŒ‹ÿ ôkb|®‰•Œ5xÂΣ¹Mœ|+F;//SýZâ¿ÛÊÖÒwqònã‡úTO5tyàö¦7t·øï®r?0®—*2ß-¤ido~÷­"R3³†Ÿ‰OË9âü%\{†´CÆŸk‚ìEï}vý•—Ò€Áërb#]ýÖ´²2º|S”’é–Iσ¯Úåâô}Äu;yâÿ n™e*TõéXܪ–ƆOÓ¢ê5yû    ¿„~Ú¿Ñ’r!Ï)Ú=œÏ¸U½Q`‹áãk‘·2ñ±µÖ¹~âÓjчÙñú]µyx%€³ú«LWá#½nCº§"$ÄX÷ÕXxbÚÈE‰ì”UiÅĨ¥û™u÷*Ëöx¿Ž®[ÿ Uº„âû3wd7ÕC#ç¤Ê;'?UQO‡+}lçæοJ"5÷hié¯g·o×R­Q›_ˆÔªW°ï¦¢q°XŒM…þ4©ê­…KÇoáö=ס¸¤“:)ÚXÆÜè9¦hßÒèEÓ´÷û¨—1ê2™ê-«`¦i7F$ôȰе_¶¦Ø¢ëéyIZ2XK),«¨FãôR‰ÙÁ‰4cv‘»7ØwÔo,ÖAr¤Ù¤c«æÚ¼ªèÊï) òÛ°Ú¢µ‡>]í*#YF«:ª‹Ckû*Ç}ºÒ㘞•2HÄܪOçë¥,n6Ü Ikgmi¡”K)f˜´„ÜÙn?MX¶QxõUÓMxqË8èœwqÝzQÊÆÄ)³q[Á¯ÆÝõ+)e5¢Ðc"˜Gå™; ¿žÊ|Y=_Ê–û…É{hSñU/,CòÀ28-½T ¹Ôž§ŒŒÑú…Œe…À6± xÞ¥¼J¹ÊñdF—ÔÛm£jjtNVI¶EדŽ"­‹hM£M¼A7·¼Ô=h#K‚{ÜßsV¡Û™è¹2tÌQ–x„ÇsZÅR>joÏUuÿ £¾¤qvv£†hÖ6Ø̬¶bÅÇe£/£Jïù¸üÈÛPÃú;k-¶Nθãí6šÚ°´fhª"­`B[{*°èdPâïâKq¸½(³qs´Z07ôÉñQ¥U×kn;[™¸î«VVËÌÏk®~ESE#¹!C„ÔÁnÓX’9“–¸uU<«¢cÞ[pYøÛÙ\¸f%ø³®¹ùª³GG¥A_R ×¹‰¬ÃžÖ:ot¬¨X¼*àªp<,Hí®v6#Ö¶»ßÜTŠ;¥8(¿–    Ï ݶÚø{ÏŽCæSGñ7–ß­p~ü`ÿ šÄ}µŸ“ÿ 9˜0¡'Ó´­rˆý‚›©æÉŽË$`܇MÄZêÛuÂ(n‘.C¬‚üÙ^w:*BÌ×Vép`¨ÒÝá¹+bãÂ#¬©ÆöäP«™0ü’q¡?ï<N}Ÿ†¬ÆÅ…G®XÉ)ÐÌünÝä蔕•o_2öUɘ<þ‹±¨r.]˜»7¾ÔÙòÉ+± _ÃpoÇÝD±¢zýTYúÚ/¨½&Æ˹щ9þ *½õ»$Ñšþn

• "Blob" definition
• "Your Paintings" Crowdsourcing Project

• Scriptio continua and Irish monks

• Annotation studies in history of the book (book studies) field:
• e.g., Ann Blair, "Note Taking as an Art of Transmission" Critical Inquiry 31.1 (2004): 85-107 (see for example p. 13 in the PDF)

• Word dividers

• "In the Beginning was the Word: A Visualization of the Page as Interface"

• Presentational, procedural, and descriptive (structural, semantic) markup  (Wikipedia article on "Markup Language")

• Michael Sperberg-McQueen (bio)

• C. M. [Michael] Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard.  "A Gentle Introduction to XML" (2004) 

• TEI (e.g., Folger Digital Texts)
• Example: Macbeth
• (speaker, w = word, c = character, pc = punctuation, lb = line break)

• Cf. vector versus raster graphics
• e.g., D3.js and SVG

• Michael Witmore, "Text: A Massively Addressable Object" (2013)
• Kari Kraus, "Conjectural Criticism: Computing Past and Future Texts" (2009)

---

• Cf. early hypertext theory (e.g.,  George P.  Landow, Hypertext: The Convergence of  Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, 1992)
• Cf. deconstruction

• Cf. Material book studies (history of the book studies)
• e.g.,  Peter Stallybrass, Roger Chartier, et al., U. Penn. Workshop in the History of Material Texts
• history of manuscripts

• Cf.  Media archaeology --e.g.:

• Cf. Platform studies
• e.g.,  MIT Press Platform Studies series

• New Textual Editing/Bibliographical Studies and the Sociology of Texts
• e.g., D. F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts (1999):
  

• Michael Witmore, "Text: A Massively Addressable Object" (2013)

• Steven J. DeRose, David G. Durand, Elli Mylonas, and Allen H. Renear, "What is Text, Really?" [PDF] (1990)
• Susan Hockey, Allen Renear, and Jerome J. McGann, "Panel: What Is Text? A Debate On the Philosophical and Epistemological Nature of Text in the Light of Humanities Computing Research" (ALLC-ACH 1999 conference)
• Attempt at overlapping tags

• Keith Houston, "The Ancient Roots of Punctuation" (2013)
• The "Fluid Ontologies" thesis:
• Ramesh Srinivasan and Jeffrey Huang.  "Fluid Ontologies for Digital Museums."  International Journal on Digital Libraries 5.3 (2005): 193-204.  [Available in proofs; PDF]
• Ramesh Srinivasan, Katherine M. Becvar, Robin Boast, and Jim Enote.  "Diverse Knowledges and Contact Zones within the Digital Museum."  Science, Technology, and Human Values 35.5 (2010): 735-68.  [manuscript available on Ramesh Srinivasan's blog; PDF]

• Simple example of CSS
• Simple example of XLST ("Tracker")

• E.g., WordPress site for The Agrippa Files