Data versus Text: 30 years of confrontation

Data vs. Text: 40 years of confrontation Lou Burnard

Plan ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Digital Text vs. Digital Data ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Digital Text ,[object Object],Is “going digital” only about producing cheaper or more accessible simulations of printed pages and finding new markets for their distribution?.

Three simple truths ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Irrevocable digitality ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Literary & Linguistic Computing

1949-1980 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

A few pioneers ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Authorship issues From A.Q. Morton Paul, the man and the myth (1966)

In LLC, what counts is counting ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

LLC is also a journal, and an annual conference ,[object Object]

LLC is alive and well and living in France ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

1980-1994 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The rise of the HC centre

Communities ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Institutionalization ,[object Object],http://www.allc.org/imhc

The re-appearance of quellenkritik ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The challenge for HC * 1999: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/hcs/

It's all about modelling, stupid

Resources digital resources encoding analysis abstract model

The problem with digital resources (c. 1989) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],There are too many mutually incomprehensible markup formats

A classic example... L oomings “ CALL me Ishmael. Some years ago --- never mind how long precisely--- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world”

A classic example... L oomings |chap1 <C 1> Loomings hapter hapter[1]{Loomings} :h1.1. Loomings MOBY001001LOOMINGS |C1 .chapter Loomings .cp;.sp 6 a;.ce .bd 1. Loomings ~xi Good news: there is software capable of translating amongst 400 different encoding formats  Bad news: there ARE 400 different encoding formats…

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Transmitting our interpretations Hence the importance of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) http://www.tei-c.org

TEI: the main achievement of HC? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

For example: the tablets of Vindolanda

TEI in practice ,[object Object],[object Object]

1995 - ? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The rise of the digital library ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

An alternative model ,[object Object],When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. When developers can access, redistribute, and enhance the digital resources underlying a digital application, new applications can evolve. People can add value, people can adapt it, people can fix bugs.

Digital humanities manifesto 2.0 Digital Humanities is not a unified field but an array of convergent practices that explore a universe in which: a) print is no longer the exclusive or the normative medium in which knowledge is produced and/or disseminated; instead, print finds itself absorbed into new, multimedia configurations; and b) digital tools, techniques, and media have altered the production and dissemination of knowledge in the arts, human and social sciences. http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/digitalhumanities/2009/05/29/the-digital-humanities-manifesto-20/#0

Les manifestes, ç a on les connait...

ibid... Digital Humanities implies the multi-purposing and multiple channeling of humanistic knowledge : no channel excludes the other. Its economy is abundance based, not one based upon scarcity .... though notions of humanistic research are everywhere under institutional pressure, there is (potentially) plenty for all. And, indeed, there is plenty to do.

The importance of not reading ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/hownot2read.html

How to not read ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Escaping from the text ,[object Object]

What's that noise in the digital library? ,[object Object],[object Object]

What makes this possible? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Rethinking the digital edition ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Components of the “uncritical” edition ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The textual trinity ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Convergence ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

A key role for the Humanities ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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