Marking Texts of Many Dimensions

McGann, Jerome J.

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“…25 We find echoes of this difficulty in much of the work of Jerome McGann, another prominent theorist who has had much influence on theoretical thinking in the digital humanities. There is, in fact, a very clear challenge to the assumptions underpinning structuring of data (primarily around markup, with which McGann is most familiar) in his book chapter 'Marking Texts of Many Dimensions' 26 . There the challenge is put in the framework of the scientific challenge presented by physic's quantum mechanics to Newtonian classical mechanisms: But in any context other than SGML and XML, this formulation is a play of wit, a kind of joke -as if one were now to say that the statistical deviations produced by Newtonian mathematical calculations left a 'residue' of 'interesting' matters to be cleared up by further, deeper calculations.…”

Section: Structured Data and Its Dualismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Silk Purses and Sow's Ears: Can Structured Data Deal with Historical Sources?

Bradley¹

2014

IJHAC

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A highly structured representation of materials have been largely neglected by historians as a way to explore historical sources in part because the textual nature of the sources often seems to preclude a structured representation. This paper proposes a place for them in the historian's toolkit and explores through a few examples how, as a way to formally express an historical interpretation of a body of material, they provide a mechanism to potentially enrich the exploration and development of an historian's interpretation of that material. Highly structured data exhibits a kind of classical clarity of approach that does not fit well with current postmodern and post-Enlightenment trends in the humanities, and this article touches on these issues, and suggests a few approaches to them.

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Section: Structured Data and Its Dualismmentioning

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Silk Purses and Sow's Ears: Can Structured Data Deal with Historical Sources?

Bradley¹

2014

IJHAC

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“…Earlier debates often centred on the theories of textuality that underpin it (e.g. DeRose et al, 1997;Renear, 1997;Renear, Mylonas & Durand 1993) and concerns of postmodern criticism, like performativity, that it poorly accommodates (Caton, 2000;McGann, 2007;2004: 193-207). The appropriateness of embedded markup for cultural heritage texts has been questioned (see Schmidt, 2010).…”

Section: Digital Humanities Approachesmentioning

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Digital Humanities in the Memory Institution: The Challenges of Encoding Sir Hans Sloane’s Early Modern Catalogues of His Collections

Ortolja-Baird¹,

Pickering

Nyhan

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Open Library of Humanities

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“…Text encoding and markup permits the representation of all types of textually-based objects; it proved pivotal in the maturation of digital editing and textual scholarship (Pierazzo, 2016; Renear, 2004). Encoding and markup brings together social, historical, and dialogical concerns to identify and then contextualize a document (or its components) (McGann, 2004; Ore, 2012). Most important, the digital optimally allows long dreamt-of possibilities: editors may represent their sources and expand their audiences at once (Pierazzo, 2016).…”

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The conceptual ecology of digital humanities

Poole

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to dissect key issues and debates in digital humanities, an emerging field of theory and practice. Digital humanities stands greatly to impact the Information and Library Science (ILS) professions (and vice versa) as well as the traditional humanities disciplines. Design/methodology/approach This paper explores the contours of digital humanities as a field, touching upon fundamental issues related to the field’s coalescence and thus to its structure and epistemology. It looks at the ways in which digital humanities brings new approaches and sheds new light on manifold humanities foci. Findings Digital humanities work represents a vital new current of interdisciplinary, collaborative intellectual activity both in- and outside the academy; it merits particular attention from ILS. Research limitations/implications This paper helps potential stakeholders understand the intellectual and practical framework of the digital humanities and “its relationship” to their own intellectual and professional work. Originality/value This paper critically synthesizes previous scholarly work in digital humanities. It has particular value for those in ILS, a community that has proven especially receptive to the field, as well as to scholars working in many humanities disciplines. Digital humanities has already made an important impact on both LIS and the humanities; its impact is sure to grow.

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Marking Texts of Many Dimensions

Cited by 18 publications

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Silk Purses and Sow's Ears: Can Structured Data Deal with Historical Sources?

Silk Purses and Sow's Ears: Can Structured Data Deal with Historical Sources?

Digital Humanities in the Memory Institution: The Challenges of Encoding Sir Hans Sloane’s Early Modern Catalogues of His Collections

The conceptual ecology of digital humanities

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