Introduction to Humanities Computing

Spring 1999

Lecture Seven

E-Text Project

Planning

Prototyping Scanningor Buying

Proofing

Research

Markup

Interactive Study

Publication

Obtaining an E-text

Acquire one from someone else.Oxford Text ArchiveSearch the Internet using WWWCommercial Vendors

Create it yourselfScan it using OCR software

OCR = Optical Character RecognitionType it in or hire services for inputMarkupValidate

Quick Historiography of the Western Word

Oral to Literate Culture400 BC Athenian Archives

Literate to Publishing Culture1455 Gutenberg Bible

1702 - Daily Courant (London’s First Newspaper)

1755 - Johnson’s Dictionary

Lucien Febvre The coming of the book : the impact of printing 1450-1800

On the way to hypertext...

PublishingManuscript

BroadcastingOratory

GatheringScholarly Apparatus

PublishingPrint

BroadcastingNewspapers & Journals

GatheringDictionaries &

Encyclopedias

Electronic Developments

1953 - Computer Printer 1959 - Xerox Photocopiers 1965 - “Hypertext” term coined by Nelson 1977 - Laser Typesetting 1980 - Laserprinter 1985 - Adobe Postscript 1985 - Aldus Pagemaker 1990 - WWW

More on Markup

<Emphasis>This is true.</Emphasis>

Style Sheet 1 Style Sheet 2

This is true This is true

This gets quite technical in a fascinating fashion.

Show versus Tell

Logicalsearchable

adaptive

customizable

HTML examples<blockquote>

<cite>

<a href=“url”>

Visualcontrol

fixed

HTML examples<b>

<font size=“x”>

<blink>

HTML is but a dialect

SGMLStandard Generalized Markup Language

SGML is a document structure language

DSSLDocument Style Semantics and Specification Language

DSSSL is a document processing language, especially for presentation or transformation

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