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TEI Headers and their Meaning
The TEI header has five primary parts: the file description, encoding description, text profile, container element, and revision history. The file description contains a file bibliographical description of the file, and the encoding description entails details about the transcription, analysis and encoding of the file. The text profile classifies and gives context to the text.…
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Not Reading the 19th-Century Novel, and the DH/PH Relationship
This past semester, my course tackled the traditional DH assignment – “(Not) Reading a Nineteenth-Century Novel.” In a class focused on how DH fits within graduate study of English departments, the premise of the assignment made a lot of sense. These are literary scholars looking to understand how these tools fit within their research goals.…
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TEI Headers and Encoding
After encoding the title page and the first 12 lines of Helen Maria Williams’ Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade into an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) document, I recognized the importance of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) header. The TEI Header, in general, has four children – the first of which…
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Willams Poem Transcribed Using TEI
Practicum #3 Prompt What are the main parts of the TEI Header, in general? (This guide will help.) What do these parts, in your TEI file, tell us about the digital object you encoded (Williams’ poem)? What is the relationship between these two parts of the file, the Header and the Body? What do you…
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UX1 Francesca Annunziata GEMA
Welcome to America! The famous American dream came true. After a long flight, i arrived in Philadelphia. It was exciting to see a city in the American style with many skyscrapers and many lights. One of the most beautiful things of USA are the americans because are the most hospitable people I’ve ever met. When…
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Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize
The deadline for the UMPress/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric is fast approaching: February 1st. We encourage submissions of completed or very near completion book-length projects that display critical and rigorous engagement in the field of digital rhetoric. For information about submissions, please visit the Call for Submissions: http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/book-prize/
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Volunteer for the 2017 Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop!
What is the Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop & How Does it Work? Founded in 2013, the Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop is a biannual, online, interdisciplinary workshop for individuals working on feminist-oriented research projects. The workshop is sponsored by HASTAC and James Madison University’s School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication. Throughout the workshop, participants create and set in motion their own…
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Importance of markup Languages. How to use
People are excited by reading attractive parts of a book or an article. Some pieces might be very important. Some articles are too long or not easy to understand all pieces firstly. Most of the time it is not necessary to read entire a blog or a document. We markup some elements which they are more…
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Making the Humanities Digital
Thoughts on the Digital Humanities Impact on Academia When fundamental assumptions change, the product should change as well. The new medium both adds and removes constraints, fundamentally changing the nature of the ‘optimal’ product being delivered. A classic example is how the newspaper is slowly being reworked to take advantage of the internet and remove…
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Encoding Emily Dickinson
A piece of writing that I think is important is Emily Dickinson’s “fascicles,” a term used by her editor Mabel Loomis Todd to describe her 40, hand-sewn booklets of poetry. If I were to encode the 800+ poems that comprise the “fascicles,” I would begin by marking up the stanzas and lines, as well as the marginalia. What…