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Seminar 7 Worlds of Dante and Tibet
Introduction to the Digital Liberal ArtsMDST 3703 / 7703
Fall 2010
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Business
• Midterms are available on Collab– In the Resources tree
• About Tuesday …– As a result, synthetic posts not due this week– You may write a post for extra credit
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Review
• Text and Image– Contextual mass achieved through juxtaposition of
text and image• Classification and the role of categories– Connecting– What else?
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Parker and Germano want their sites to
evoke worlds.
What do they mean by “world”?
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Hermeneutics, the Study of Wor(l)ds
• We’ve mentioned the hermeneutical circle– Grammatical vs. Psychological meanings
• More generally: human beings inhabit worlds, not just environments– Worldview
• Origins in interpreting the Bible and Roman Law– The “records left by man [sic]” bear the imprint of these
worlds• Scholarship is about remembering these worlds to
our contemporaries– Remembering them, rearticulating them
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness.”
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Texts “contain” worlds
Is this idea found in hypertext?
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Operationalizing the concept
• Worlds consist of “symbols and meanings”• Symbols and meanings– Encode categories – Are expressed by both words and images– Are created and “owned” by communities and
societies• We can represent these in the digital medium
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Symbol Sign
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Let’s look at how worlds are
represented for Dante and Tibet
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World of Dante
• Third Generation IATH project• Deborah Parker, Italian• Focuses on putting the Divine Comedy in
context—evoking the world– Dante is like Blake and Milton in this respect
• How does the site accomplish this?– Visit site and begin reading …– Ask: who is Beatrice?
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Maps
Music
Timeline
Resources
SEARCHText, Category LIST
Gallery
IMAGERECORD
CATEGORYRECORD
Inferno | Purgatorio | Paradisio
CANTO VIEWER
English, Italian, Categories
Submenu Main MenuCore Content
Information Architecture of WOD
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World Views
• Maps categories onto text• Maps images onto categories
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Tibetan & Himalayan Library
• Third Generation IATH project• David Germano, Religious Studies• Builds on UVAs position in Tibetan Studies• Focuses on putting Tibet in context– Also takes advantage of context—how?
• Built around the library metaphor (alas)– Projects, Collections, Places (Map room),
Encyclopedias, Reference, Community, Tools
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Key Elements
• Media– Images, video, etc.
• Categories (Knowledge Maps)– Rituals, Economics, etc.
• Maps– Interactive Maps, Place Dictionary
• Literature– Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Translator, etc.
• Community– Projects, How to Contribute, etc.
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Exercise
• Group A: Compare the representations of Virgil and Beatrice in the text. Who are they and how many times does each appear in the text?
• Group B: Compare image representations of Virgil and Beatrice
• Group C: Locate the Tibetan city of Lhasa and learn about it place in Tibetan culture
• Group D: use the Knowledge Maps to find out how many kinds of Tibetan rituals there are. Do any have images associated with them?