peter robinson: 5 desiderata for digital editions/digital humanists should get out of textual...
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Talk for DH 2013, Lincoln, Nebraska, 19 July 2013.TRANSCRIPT
Desiderata for Digital Editions
Peter RobinsonUniversity of Saskatchewan
1. The text of both the document and of the work should be encoded;
2. All editorial acts should be attributed;3. All materials should, by default, be available
by a Creative Commons share-alike license;4. All materials should be available independent
of any one interface;5. All materials should be held in a sustainable
long-term storage system, such as an institutional repository
1. The text of both the document and of the work should be encoded
“Traditional” TEI --
“New” TEI (Ch. 11 of P5) --
Overlapping hierarchies? Just deal with it!
Textual Communities:
www.textualcommunities.usask.ca
Anyone for refsDecl? We are…
This tells the processor: the document tree is made of pages containing columns containing lines
Do the same for the entity tree (each <div> is a part of the Tales, containing <l> elements for each line)
Map this to an ontology, put all these chunks into a database, and you are done
View by document
View by entity within document
View by entity and entity part
All editorial acts should be attributed
If you have the‘non-commercial’ restriction you might as well lock it up and throw away the key
Kings College: 47 projects with digital output:•23: “© 2011 Kings College London” or similar•21: Specify restrictions (usually ‘non-commercial’)•3: available without restriction (all from one group of projects)
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/11/16331/0655 (“Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful”)
All materials should be available independent of any one interface
Your interface is everyone else’s enemy
Let everybody take and reuse your data
Solution:CCSA+Smart Data+API=HCE=42
Why digital humanists should get out of textual scholarship
Peter RobinsonUniversity of Saskatchewan
Social, Digital, ScholarlyEditing
Saskatoon, 11-13 July 2013
What I said
Collaboration between textual scholars and digital humanists is a mistake
Digital humanists should get out of textual scholarship; and if they don’t, textual scholars should throw them out
What I did not say
Textual scholars should not use digital methods
NO. The medium has always been central to textual scholarship. We have to know everything there is to know about digital texts – and we have to make digital texts.
The mistakes we have made together
The story of <add> and <del>
BUT
Inferno iii, 9: Riccardiana 1005
NOT
The mistakes we have made together
• Digital scholarly editions are more than TEI encoding
• Alan Galey is wrong. You don’t need to know PHP, grep, Apache, the history of browsers, XSLT …
• Angle brackets are NOT good for you
How we may work
NOT: One Project/One Scholar/One Digital Humanist
INSTEAD:Lots of projects with lots of scholars creating lots of data, open to allLots of other people doing lots of things with thedata – making interfaces, exploring it differentways
Many Projects/Many Scholars/Many Digital Humanists