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Class 3 Notes

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Preliminary Business

Attendance
DSP Note Taker needed (paid)
Special Assignment due in Class 3: Create your system for working with online readings: Guide to Downloading and Managing Online Readings)
Upcoming readings and assignments: see Schedule
Tech support/help for the course
Getting ready to form into teams (in class 5)

Today's topic: Text in the Digital Age

Today's readings: (red links are to professor's annotated versions)

William Warner, Kimberly Knight, and UCSB Transliteracies History of Reading Group, "In the Beginning was the Word: A Visualization of the Page as Interface"(View the original Flash animation for the best interactive access, or view the MP4 video version (or download the AVI or WMV video versions). On the original Flash page, click "Enter" and wait as the animation starts)
Yin Liu, "Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People" [PDF or HTML] (2013)
Alan Liu, "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse" (2004) (read only pp. 49-57)
Kate Singer, "Digital Close Reading: TEI for Teaching Poetic Vocabularies" (2013)
Practicum: Text Encoding Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

Text Encoding 1 -- The Origin of Writing (and Text Encoding)

The Beginning of Writing (Sumerian "bullas" and tokens):

Classical Greek and Latin writing in "scriptio continua' (until 7th-8th centuries A.D.):

scriptio-continua.pptx

Binary Large Object (Blob):

Your Text Encoding Practicums

Folder for practicums -- selected exercises:

Text Encoding Protocols (SGML, HTML, XML, TEI)

text-encoding.pptx

Yin Liu, "Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People" [PDF or HTML] (2013)
Alan Liu, "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse" (2004) (read only pp. 49-57)
Kate Singer, "Digital Close Reading: TEI for Teaching Poetic Vocabularies" (2013)

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