Introduction to Humanities Computing Spring 1999 Lecture Seven

Introduction to Humanities Computing Spring 1999 Lecture Seven

E-Text Project Planning Prototyping Research Publication Scanning or Buying Markup Proofing Interactive Study

Obtaining an E-text s Acquire one from someone else. Oxford Text Archive Search the Internet using WWW Commercial Vendors s Create it yourself Scan it using OCR software OCR = Optical Character Recognition Type it in or hire services for input Markup Validate

Quick Historiography of the Western Word s Oral to Literate Culture 400 BC Athenian Archives s Literate to Publishing Culture 1455 Gutenberg Bible 1702 - Daily Courant (London’s First Newspaper) 1755 - Johnson’s Dictionary Lucien Febvre The coming of the book : the impact of printing 1450 -1800

On the way to hypertext. . . s Publishing s Manuscript s Broadcasting Print s Oratory s Gathering Scholarly Apparatus Publishing Broadcasting Newspapers & Journals s Gathering Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Electronic Developments s s s s 1953 - Computer Printer 1959 - Xerox Photocopiers 1965 - “Hypertext” term coined by Nelson 1977 - Laser Typesetting 1980 - Laserprinter 1985 - Adobe Postscript 1985 - Aldus Pagemaker 1990 - WWW

More on Markup This is true. Style Sheet 1 This is true Style Sheet 2 This is true This gets quite technical in a fascinating fashion.

Show versus Tell s Logical s searchable adaptive customizable s HTML examples

Visual control fixed s HTML examples