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Edward Vanhoutte
Universiteit Antwerpen
Universiteitsplein 1 / b-2610 Wilrijk
A 1.13
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CTB - Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie (KANTL)
Koningstraat 18 / b-9000 Gent
tel: +32 (0)9 265.93.51 / fax: +32 (0)9 265.93.49
edward.vanhoutte@kantl.be |
| Time: |
Monday 9-12u.30. - 2nd semester 2006-2007 |
| Room: |
Computer room A9.02 (Library building A) |
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How can we make manuscripts legible and processable by computers? What does the computer mean for the humanities and how can we make true electronic editions? These and many other questions are the focus of the course Humanities Computing: Electronic Text that is unique in the humanities in Belgium.
The use of electronic texts in all areas of current society and all disciplines of both the Humanities and the hard sciences is increasing enormously. Together with this trend, the problems attached to the use and interchange of electronic texts become more prominent: software- and platform-incompatibility, loss of data in converting files, problems of archiving, creation, use, etc. This course addresses these problems and focuses on the problematic position of electronic texts in the humanities. The student can also expect an introduction in the history and evolution of electronic publication media such as the Internet. In lectures, seminars, and workshops, we draw the attention to the creation and publication of electronic texts, and gain hands-on experience in using internationally accepted standards for text-encoding and markup - SGML, XML, (X)HTML, XSL, CSS, TEI... This course introduces tools and techniques which will be used by the students to produce an electronic publication.
This course is not a web-design and web-publishing course. |
| Pre-required knowledge: |
No special computer knowledge is required. However, the students are supposed to have some elementary computer skills (know how to work with multiple windows, work with the mouse, create folders and files, download files from the internet), but an introductory session may be organised for students who are not up to elementary standards.
This course is taught in English. Foreign students are most welcome. |
| Format: |
Seminars and workshops with preparation. |
| Examination: |
Attendance, permanent evaluation (weekly assignments) and group project. Only students who take part in all parts of the assesment will be eligible for credits and marks on this course. |
| Required reading: |
- Willard McCarty (2002). Humanities Computing (Preliminary draft entry for The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, New York: Dekker, 2003.)
- Edward Vanhoutte (2004). 'An Introduction to the TEI and the TEI Consortium. In Mats Dahlström, Espen S. Ore, & Edward Vanhoutte (eds.), Electronic Scholarly Editing – Some Northern European Approaches. A Special Issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19/1 (2004): 9-16. doi:10.1093/llc/19.1.9
- Further required reading will be available in a reader and on this course website.
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| Suggested reading: |
- The Internet, hypertext, and the WWW
- Tim Berners-Lee (1999). Weaving the Web - The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor. London: Orion Business Press / San Francisco: Harper. (Translated as: Tim Berners-Lee (2000). De wereld van het World Wide Web. Het oorspronkelijke ontwerp en de uiteindelijke bestemming van het World Wide Web, beschreven door zijn uitvinder. Amsterdam: Nieuwezijds.)
- James Gillies and Robert Cailliau (2000). How the Web was Born. The Story of the World Wide Web. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Theodor Holm Nelson, (1993). Literary Machines 93.1. Sausalito: Mindful Press.
- The history of computing
- Paul E. Ceruzzi (2003). A History of Modern Computing. Second edition. Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press.
- Humanities Computing
- Susan Hockey (2000). Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Willard McCarty (2005). Humanities Computing. London: Palgrave.
- Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth (eds.), A Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, MA/Oxford/Carlton: Blackwell Publishing.
- Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Nick Montfort (eds.) (2003). The New Media Reader. Cambridge, MA / London: The MIT Press.
- The journals Literary & Linguistic Computing, Computers and the Humanities, Markup Languages: Theory and Practice and Human IT.
- The maillists HUMANIST & TEI-L.
- Further suggested readings will be available in a reader and on this course website.
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| Credits: |
This course counts for 4 ECTS credits, which equals a 120 hour workload. This is organized as follows:
- Lectures: 30h.
- Weekly preparation: 25h.
- Group assignment: 65h.
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Formal lecture |
| Preparation |
- Know how to download files from the internet
- Know how to create folders and save files in folders
- Know how to surf the internet, look and find information
- Know how to email
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| Required reading |
- Susan Hockey (2004). 'The History of Humanities Computing.' In Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth (eds.), A Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, MA/Oxford/Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 3-19.
- McCarty, Willard (2004). 'Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings.' In Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth (eds.), A Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, MA/Oxford/Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 254-270.
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| Further reading |
- Joseph Raben, "Humanities Computing 25 Years Later" Computers and the Humanities 25 (December, 1991): 341-350.
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| Assignment |
- Read the required readings above
- Write a 500 word short essay on "What is Humanities Computing". Hand in the essay in hard copy on 19 February and mail me (edward.vanhoutte@kantl.be) the text as well.
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Seminar |
| Required reading |
- The Computer
- Andrea Laue (2004). How the Computer Works. In Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth (eds.), A Companion to Digital Humanities. Malden, MA/Oxford/Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 145-160.
- Humanities Computing
- Willard McCarty (2002). Humanities Computing (Preliminary draft entry for The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, New York: Dekker, 2003.)
- Susan Hockey (2000). Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- chapter 1: "Why Electronic Texts?": 1-10
- chapter 3: "Text Encoding": 24-48.
- WWW and Hypertext
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| Further reading |
- The computer
- Paul E. Ceruzzi (2003). A history of Modern Computing. Second edition. Cambridge, MA/London: the MIT Press.
- Edward Vanhoutte (2007). International History of Computing. A selective overview (1614-1961). [PDF]
- Humanities Computing
- Espen Aarseth (s.d.). 'The Field of Humanistic Informatics and its Relation to the Humanities.' Human IT, 4/1997
- CETH A Brief Introduction to Humanities Computing and Electronic Text
- Marilyn Deegan (2000). Introduction. in Frances Condron, Michael Fraser & Stuart Sutherland (eds.), Guide to Digital Resources for the Humanities 2000. Oxford: CTI.
- Michael Fraser (1996). A Hypertextual History of Humanities Computing.
- Willard McCarty & Matthew Kirschenbaum (2003) Institutional models for humanities computing.
- Willard McCarty (25 November 2005). 'Tree, Turf, Centre, Archipelago-or Wild Acre? Metaphors and Stories for Humanities Computing.' Literary and Linguistic Computing, doi:10.1093/llc/fqi066
- Michael Sperberg-McQueen (2002). "Geisteswissenschaften und Informatik. Zur aktuellen Situation und zu künftigen Aufgaben." In Thomas Burch, Johannes Fournier, Kurt Gärtner and Andrea Rapp (eds.), Standards und Methoden der Volltextdigitalisierung. Mainz/Stuttgart: Akedemie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur/Franz Steiner Verlag. 27-37.
- WWW and Hypertext
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| Multimedia |
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| Assignment |
- Copy your favourite poem to a plain text file (ASCII) *.txt and bring it with you on a disk on February 26th.
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Week 4 (5 March) Digitization of Images and Textual Resources: Dr. Melissa Terras - University College London.
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| Format |
Public Lecture |
| Required reading |
- H. Besser and J. Trant (2005). Introduction to Imaging. Revised Edition Los
Angeles: The Getty Information Institute, The Getty Center.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/introimages/index.html
- Marilyn Deegan (2006). Surrogacy and the artefact. In G.E. Gorman and Sydney J. Shep (eds.) Preservation management for libraries, archives and museums. London: Facet publishing, pp. 54-63.
- Susan Hockey (2000). Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- chapter 2: "Creating and Acquiring Electronic Texts": 11-23.
- Lorna M. Hughes (2003). Digitizing collections. Strategic issues for the information manager. London: Facet publishing.
- chapter 10: "Digitization of text and images": 255-282
- Stuart D. Lee (2001). Digital imaging. A practical handbook. London: Facet Publishing.
- chapter 3: "How do you digitize?": 35-75.
- Alan Morrison, Michael Popham & Karen Wikander (2000). Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice. Oxford: OTA.
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| Further reading |
- Digitisation Resources
- Marilyn Deegan & Simon Tanner (2001). Digital Futures. Strategies for the information age. London: Library Association Publishing.
- chapter 1: "Digital futures in current contexts": 6-15
- chapter 2: "Why digitize?": 30-57
- Susan Hockey (1999). Making Technology Work for Scholarship: Investing in the Data. In Richard Ekman and Richard Quandt (eds.), Technology and Scholarly Communication. University of California Press. 17-36.
- Stuart D. Lee (1999). Scoping the Future of the University of Oxford's Digital Library Collections. Appendix E: Digitization Methods.'
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| Assignment |
- Complete the questionnaire handed out by Dr. Terras by March 9 and put it in my pigeon hole opposite the secretary's office.
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Seminar |
| Downloads |
- NoteTab Light
- Exchanger XML Lite V3.2
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| Installation 1 |
NoteTab Light is a very complete plain text editor which allows you to create SGML, XML, (X)HTML, CSS etc. documents.
Download the software on your computer and unzip the file with an Unzip program (e.g. WinZip). Double click the Setup.exe file and follow the install shield guidance. Once installed, run the program and select View > Options > File Filters. Select "New", and add the next details
- Description: "xml"
- Wildcards: "*.xml"
- Click the OK button. Now you can save XML instances with the extension ".xml".
Repeat this operation for each file format you want to add to the software, e.g. CSS, XSL.
Select View > Options > HTML Files. Select "Create XHTML Tags" and select "Create Uppercase Tags" till you see a square in the box.
Download teixlite.clb, DALF10.clb, and DALF10META.clb and save (with .clb extension!) in NoteTab Light/Libraries. The Tabs "teixlite", "DALF10", and "DALF10META" will now appear in the tab-bar at the bottom of the programme window. Click to activate the library which will appear in the left margin.
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Exchanger XML Lite V3.2 is a comprehensive Java-based multi platform XML Editor bringing you lots of the great features you have come to expect. The XML Editor facilitates easy editing, browsing, managing and conversion of XML Documents. It features W3C XML Schema, Relax NG and DTD based editing, tag prompting and validation, XPath and regular expression searches, schema conversion, XSLT, XQUERY and XSLFO transformations, comprehensive project management, an SVG viewer and conversion, easy SOAP invocations, and more....
The Exchanger XML Editor requires Java 1.4 or higher and works on all platforms where this Java version is supported
Execute the program install of your choice and follow the install shield guidance.
In order to install the TEI P4 (Lite) extension, unzip http://www.exchangerxml.com/editor/TEI-P4/TEI-P4-v10.zip with an Unzip program to a folder of your choice. Next, import the 'project.xngr' file in the Exchanger XML Editor by selecting the Project > Import Project... menu item and select the 'project.xngr' file. The archive contains 2 example TEI documents (exercise.xml and gentleintro.xml), 2 types to use for tag-completion and validation (TEI P4.type + dtd and TEI P4 Lite.type + dtd), 2 templates for creating new TEI documents (TEI P4.template + TEI.xml and TEI P4 Lite.template + TEI Lite.xml), and 2 scenarios to publish TEI documents as HTML:
- TEI P4 HTML.scenario + xsl: This scenario creates index.htm in the document source directory by default.
- TEI P4 HTML Slides.scenario + xsl: This scenario creates index-slides0.htm in the document source directory by default.
A full manual is located at http://www.exchangerxml.com/editor/library.html.
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| Assignment |
- Design a DTD for email.xml and submit it to me before Saturday 17 March 12 am.
- Study the document TEILite. "TEI U5: Encoding for Interchange: an introduction to the TEI. [html] [xml] [pdf]
- Accompanying slides to TEILite can be found here
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Week 7 (26 March) XSL theory and practice: basics, XPath, functions: Ron Van den Branden
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Seminar |
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| Installation |
- Java Virtual Machine: Install the Java VM by running the self-extracting setup package. Make sure to install in the folder "c:\java" (preferrably not under "program files"!).
- Saxon:
- java version:
- extract the .zip file to the folder "c:\saxon".
- run saxon from anywhere on the command line with the command "java -jar c:\saxon\saxon.jar [options] source-document stylesheet [params].
- binary version:
- extract the .zip file to the folder "c:\saxon".
- run saxon from anywhere on the command line with the command "c:\saxon\saxon [options] source-document stylesheet [params]" (or by setting the environment variable SAXON_HOME to "c:\saxon" and including it in your system's PATH).
- XPath Explorer:
- copy the file "xpe.jar" to the folder "c:\xpe".
- run XPE from anywhere on the command line with the command "java -jar c:\xpe\xpe.jar"
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| Further Reading |
- Jeni Tennison (2002). Beginning XSLT. Birmingham: Wrox Press.
- Michael Kay (2002). XSLT Programmer's Reference, 2nd Edition. Birmingham: Wrox Press.
- Elliotte Rusty Harold (2001). XML Bible, 2nd Edition. New York: Hungry Minds, Inc.
- Doug Tidwell (2001). XSLT. Mastering XSL Transformations. O'Reilly.
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