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Class 5 Notes

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Preliminary Class Business

 

  • Enrollment
  • Preview of readings and practicum for Class 6

  • Teams to be formed in Class 6

1. Mapping Literature (continued from last class)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


2. Encoding Literature

 

  • Practical question: How can texts be encoded to make them more usable in the age of computers? (see Geoffrey Rockwell, "What is Text Analysis?")

 

  • Philosophical question: What is text in the age of data?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


A. "Blob" (Binary Large Object)

 

 

 


B. The Story of Text as Data

 

scriptio continua 

 

 

 

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

 

  • Michael Sperberg-McQueen (bio)

 

 

  • Descriptive Encoding / Markup 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


C. Document

Documents and Document Object Model

 


D. The Controversy about OHCO - "Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects"

 

 


E. Whose OHCO?

 

 


F. Dirty Code

 

 


G. Student Encoding Exercises

 

 

 

 

 

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