Preliminary Business

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):

Binary Large Object (Blob):

Your Text Encoding Practicums

• Folder for practicums  -- selected exercises:
• Karina Lucero
• Rosalie Moreno 
• Kyle Spears 
• Chad Thodos 
• Juliet Way-Henthorne 
• Emily Schwab 
• Kayla Duffey 

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)