1. Text-encoding practicums

        cf., Olia Lialina, "A Vernacular Web" | "One TB of KB Age Photo Op" |  Johanna Drucker, Diagrammatic Writing | Lisa Samuels and Jerome McGann, "Deformance and Interpretation"

• Student text encoding exercises

Materials for Discussion Today

• Focal Readings
• Yin Liu, "Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People" (2013)
• Alan Liu, "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse" (2004) (read only pp. 49-63)
• Wikipedia article on "Markup Language"
• C. M. [Michael] Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard, "A Gentle Introduction to XML" (2004)
• Julia Flanders, "Basic Manuscript and Physical Document Encoding"
• Michael Witmore, "Text: A Massively Addressable Object" (2013)
• William Warner, Kimberly Knight, and UCSB Transliteracies History of Reading Group, "In the Beginning was the Word: A Visualization of the Page as Interface" (Flash animation)

• Other Readings
• Steven J. DeRose, David G. Durand, Elli Mylonas, and Allen H. Renear, "What is Text, Really?" [PDF] (1990)
• Susan Hockey, Allen Renear, and Jerome J. McGann, "Panel: What Is Text? A Debate On the Philosophical and Epistemological Nature of Text in the Light of Humanities Computing Research" (ALLC-ACH 1999 conference)
• cf., Allen Renear, Elli Mylonas, and David Durand, "Refining our Notion of What Text Really Is: The Problem of Overlapping Hierarchies" (1993)
• Kari Kraus, "Conjectural Criticism: Computing Past and Future Texts" (2009) [read through paragraph 21]
• Alan Liu, "Escaping History: New Historicism, Databases, and Contingency" [PDF] (originally published 2004; chap. 9 of Liu, Local Transcendence (2008); manuscript version provided here for open access) (read only pp. 317-23 on origins and theory of the relational database)

2. Text Encoding - History and Theory

class3-powerpoint.pptx

• Discussion 1.a
• Discussion 1.b

3. The Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript

Powerpoint (continued)

• Discussion 2

4. Preview of Next Class

• Class 4 reading assignments
• Class 4 practicum