Throughout my college career I have noticed a real difference in the values, preferences, and modes of discourse between my peers in the humanities and those in the Sciences. I had previously thought that only the starkest individuals stood out …
First Blog Assignment
First Blog Assignment
After doing the reading for 7 September, begin to post responses to the readings. You should try to address one or more of the following questions:
- From your perspective, what is the current position of the Humanities,
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“The Garden of Forking Paths”
“The Garden of Forking Paths” (El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan)
by Jorge Luis Borges
On page 22 of Liddell Hart’s History of World War I you will read that an attack against the Serre-Montauban line by …
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21 Sep – Introduction to Text Encoding
Updated on Saturday, 17 September
This will be our first class on text encoding and textual markup.
Reading:
- Textual Markup and the Study of Literature
- (X)HTML and CSS (Read the Introduction, How Web
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28 Sep – Text Encoding Continued
Readings:
Follow the instructions for creating the “hello.html” file and see if you can access it over the internet.
For work in class (hopefully):
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19 Oct – Text Encoding Projects
In this class we will begin by learning about markup validation. Read the definition given here and the explanation here. If you have time, try out the W3C Markup Validator.
We will also begin to learn XML today. …
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Aug 31 – Introduction
Discussion:
- A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities
- A Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
- “Our Commitment to the Digital Humanities” (Official Google Blog)
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26 Oct – TEI
Read the following tutorials from TEI by Example:
You don’t need to learn all of the TEI elements and attributes, but you should feel that you have a good overview of …
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