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Markup as a Constitutive Element of Interpretation
Usually when I think of markup, I think of annotations in text, including highlighting sentences, taking notes, underlining words, and starring passages. Up until this week, I never really questioned the markup process that occurs in editing and publishing. Authors, editors, publishers, and printers all seem to have varying levels of control over…
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What you do not want lost in the fire
Question: The library is burning to the ground, and you have time to save one thing: a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or the book or manuscript digitally transcribed (that is, typed into a computer file or files). Which one would you save and why? Response:…
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Practicum #1: Introduction to HASTAC and Digital Humanities
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) is an online community of digital humanists whose goal is to continue the enriching and innovative field of humanities on to a collaborative online environment. The revolution of the internet and the access of information at our finger tips has changed so much including ways to…
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XML The Bill of Rights
One of the most important historical documents is the original Bill of Rights, its amendments provide American citizens their freedoms and liberties. For this document to be marked up from its original ink and paper to an XML file, multiple codes would need to be used. Due to the document being aged and weathered special notice to the…
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The American Prison Writing Project
The American Prison Writing Project (http://apw.dhinitiative.org/) is an ongoing process to build the “first fully searchable prison-writing archive”. The choice to create an archive of writing by prisoners rather than average citizens was not an arbitrary one, the goal of the project is to amass real, first-hand witnesses to life inside of the United States…
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Musings on the News and on Work
I’m unable to stop reading the news. I told myself a couple of weeks ago that I’d like to try reading more headlines and fewer articles, and I’ve succeeded to some degree, but that’s mostly because Black Twitter is more knowledgeable about what’s going in the American political sphere than some mainstream media outlets are.…
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Music and Sound Studies Reading Group in NYC
For the past four years the Fordham University English department has sponsored the Music and Sound Studies reading group, advised by Andrew Albin and Lawrence Kramer. Each month we meet to discuss a reading in this burgeoning field, and we welcome any scholars in the New York City area to join us. If you’d like to be included in the…
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Blog Post 2
The library is burning to the ground, and you have time to save one thing: a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or or the book or manuscript digitally transcribed (that is, typed into a computer file or files). Which one would you save and why? To make…
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Scenario: Library on Fire?
I am sitting in Dartmouth’s library writing an essay when all of a sudden a fire breaks out. Firefighters run into the building and order everyone to evacuate the premises. It is clear that the building will be demolished by the flames and that there is no chance to save all of the books and…
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The Collaborative Era of Print and Digital Text
Yin Liu’s argument in “Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People,” that we ought not subscribe to a singular notion of “text,” persuaded me and encouraged me to investigate my own presumptions and assumptions about text. Personally, I am predisposed to conceptualizing a text as a stable and…