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Thursday Oct 15, 16:00 UK = 17:00 CET
Convenors: Jonathan Blaney & Gabriel Bodard (University of London), Charlotte Tupman (Exeter), Irene Vagionakis (Bologna)
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/6p7kUH9th_U
Slides: Jonathan's HTML pages; Gabby's slides; Charlotte's slides
In this session we will introduce the concepts of markup and annotation, both in traditional (including ancient) practice and through digital encoding. Simple examples using HTML and Markdown or Wikitext will be used to demonstrate the principles of using markup to encode historical texts or editions, and then the Extensible Markup Language (XML) will be introduced. Finally we will set an exercise for participants to try out some of the principles we have shown, and to spark discussion of the issues and problems with the possible approaches.
For discussion in this thread.
- Nyhan, J. (2012). “Text encoding and scholarly digital editions”. In Digital Humanities in Practice, edited by C. Warwick, M. Terras, J. Nyhan. London: Facet Publishing. Pre-proof available: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julianne_Nyhan/publication/284178309_Text_encoding_and_digital_scholarly_editions/links/564e2b2f08aefe619b0fad83/Text-encoding-and-digital-scholarly-editions.pdf
- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (2016). "The Battle We Forgot to Fight: Should We Make a Case for Digital Editions?" In Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices, M. J. Driscoll and E. Pierazzo (eds.). Pp. 219-238. Available https://www.openbookpublishers.com/htmlreader/978-1-78374-238-7/ch12.xhtml#_idTextAnchor029
- Coombs, J.H. et al. (1987). "Markup systems and the future of scholarly text processing". Communications of the ACM. ACM. 30 (11): 933–947. Available: http://xml.coverpages.org/coombs.html.
- Franz Fischer (2019). "Digital Classical Philology and the Critical Apparatus." In ed. Berti, Digital Classical Philology: Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution, pp. 203–219. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599572-012
- Renear, Allen H. (2004). "Text encoding." In A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell. Available: http://digitalhumanities.org:3030/companion/view?docId=blackwell/9781405103213/9781405103213.xml&chunk.id=ss1-3-5&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ss1-3-5&brand=9781405103213_brand
- Sahle, Patrick (2016). "What is a Scholarly Digital Edition?" In Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices, M. J. Driscoll and E. Pierazzo (eds.). Pp. 19-39. Available: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/htmlreader/978-1-78374-238-7/ch2.xhtml#_idTextAnchor009
[If you have any technical issues with this exercise, you may ask for help here]
- Install Sublime Text Editor or Atom Editor and use it to create XML files for three short texts of your choice from the sources listed below, devising your own XML elements as appropriate (or following the examples shown during this session).
- Possible sources of the texts/extracts:
- Open Greek and Latin Perseus Digital Library (A couple of suggestions: Caesar’s De Bello Gallico; Herodotus’s Histories)
- Project Gutenberg (A couple of suggestions: English translation of Caesar’s De Bello Gallico; English translation of Herodotus’s Histories)
- British History Online (A couple of suggestions: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 1, Eburacum, Roman York; An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Volume 3, Roman London)
- Syllogisms from Artis Logicae (1696) (screenshot of page)
- Possible sources of the texts/extracts:
- Add the files that you have created into the Git repository that you have initialised for the exercise of session 1. Commit and push these files.
- Share with other members of your group, and discuss the decisions you have made, the features you have tagged, and the elements you have chosen to mark them. How do the differences between your choices reflect different agendas or backgrounds?
