Required Reading:
David Birnbaum, “What is XML and why should humanists care?” 2011.
Meredith Hindley, “The Rise of the Machines: NEH and the Digital Humanities: The Early Years.” Humanities. 34:4 (2013)
Required Reading:
David Birnbaum, “What is XML and why should humanists care?” 2011.
James Cummings, "The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature". In A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
Steven DeRose, et. al. "What Is Text, Really?" ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation 21:3 (1997), 1 - 24. (off campus)
Kevin S. Hawkins, “Introduction to XML for Text” 2013.
Meredith Hindley, “The Rise of the Machines: NEH and the Digital Humanities: The Early Years.” Humanities. 34:4 (2013)
Matthew Kirschenbaum, "What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?" In Debates in the Digital Humanities, ed. Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Optional Reading:
James Cummings, “Self Study (part 1): Introducing XML and Markup” 2012.
George Kiraz, “Forty Years of Syriac Computing.” Hugoye: The Journal of Syriac Studies 10.1 (2007): 37-60.
TEI Consortium, eds., TEI P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, Version 2.5, “A Gentle Introduction to XML” 2013.
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Optional Reading:
Joe Fawcett, et. al. eds., "What is XML?" (Chapter One). In Beginning XML, Fifth Edition. Hoboken, N.J.: Wilely, 2012.
Recommended Exercises:
Required Reading:
In Class Exercise:
Optional Response Paper: Review of Moretti, Distant Reading.
Required Reading:
Joe Fawcett, et. al. eds., Extracting Data from XML (Chapter Seven). In Beginning XML, Fifth Edition. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2012.
Priscilla Walmsely, XQuery. Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly, 2007. Chapter Four.
In Class Exercises:
Required Response Paper: Identify and review an XML based digital humanities project relevant to your research or vocational interests.
To help you find a repository, you might want to look at the data we have collected here (and trace it back to its source): https://github.com/paralipomena
There is also an excellent repository curated by Hugh Cayless of Duke University here: https://github.com/TEI-examples/tei-examples
Next you should look over these list of links:
You could also search the index of:
You could also search the archives of a mailing list or join and ask about projects relevant to your interests:
Required Reading:
Optional Reading:
Optional Response Paper: From your own academic perspective, define "digital humanities".
Required Reading:
Optional Reading:
Priscilla Walmsely, XQuery. Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly, 2007. Chapters Seven.
Optional Response Paper: Review an example of scholarly usage of XML in a domain specifc to your research interests.
Required Reading:
Optional Response Paper: Topic of your choice.
Informal Midterm Survey:
Please complete this course survey here before March 9. Thank you for your feedback!
Required Response Papers:
All students should bring to class (and turn in on OAK) a 500 word response paper addressing three questions:
Required Reading:
Please adjust your reading this week to fit your specific needs. If you feel that you have a solid research question and data set, then please read:
Stephen Ramsay, Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. (This work is a challenging abstract reflection on the nature and limits of digital criticsim. It is not light reading!)
If you are still searching for model projects or model research questions, then we suggest that you focus your time on reading that will help you identify possible model projects that may inspire your research. Please browse:
Electronic Textual Editing. The section "Sources and Orientations" has several essays about using TEI with different genres and types of sources.
Cayless, Hugh, Charlotte Roueché, Tom Elliott, and Gabriel Bodard. “Epigraphy in 2017." Digital Humanities Quarterly 003, no. 1 (February 26, 2009). (See especially the section at the end of the article:"4. The Scholar and Digital Texts")
Blackwell, Christopher, and Gregory Crane. “Conclusion: Cyberinfrastructure, the Scaife Digital Library and Classics in a Digital Age." Digital Humanities Quarterly 003, no. 1 (February 26, 2009).
NOTA BENE: Please see this blog post update to the syllabus for this week. We have decided to defer this weeks readings to later in the semester in favor of a week to catch up.
Required Reading:
Priscilla Walmsely, XQuery. Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly, 2007. Chapters Eight.
We will introduce Git and Github and go over some tricks of using Oxygen. You need not read them before class, but we will cover these links from Week 5:
Optional Reading:
Khan Academy, Excercise - Write a Fibonacci Function (2011)
Khan Academy, Recursive Fibonacci Example (2011)
Dan McCreary and Ann Kelly. "NoSQL and Functional Programming." In Making Sense of NoSQL: A Guide for Managers and the Rest of Us. Shelter Island, NY: Manning, 2014.
Mark Pilgrim, Dive into HTML5, Chapters 1 to 4
Optional Response Paper: What are the limits of digital analysis?
Required Reading:
Recommended Exercise:
Optional Response Paper: Review of week 12 readings.
Required Reading:
Shlomo Agramon et. al. "Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts." Text & Talk 23:3 (2006), 321–34. If this above link does not work, try http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ufh&AN=10676529&site=ehost-live or http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final.pdf.
Ben Blatt, A Textual Analysis of The Hunger Games (2013)
Dan Jurafsky, What is Text Classification? (2012)
Dan Jurafsky, Text Classification and Naïve Bayes - Part One (2012)
Dan Jurafsky, Text Classification and Naïve Bayes - Part Two (2012)
Optional Reading:
Optional Response Paper: Review of week 13 readings.
Required Reading:
Matthew Jockers, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013. Part Three: Prospects
May Yuan, Mapping Texts. In The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
Optional Reading:
Franco Moretti. "Maps." In Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History. London: Verso, 2005.
Optional Response Paper: Review of week 14 readings.
The Vanderbilt University community is invited to join our course for public presentations of student research using XML and XQuery. The ten-minute presentations will run from 2:10-3:00 p.m. and be held in Furman 003 (Center for Second Language Studies). The presentations are open the university community.
"Indivisible Content and Form: A Prototype of Image Citation in the Syriaca.org Projects," Tucker Hannah
"Finding Colophons in Syriaca.org: Exploring the TEI Encoding Model," Justin Arnwine and Anthony Davis
"Using DIMLI to Create a Digital Catalog of Early Christian Sarcophagi," Julia Nations-Quiroz and Mark Ellison
"Encoding U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Investigation Files on Conscientious Objectors from World War I," Joshua Jeffery
"Scriptural Focal Points in Hymns that Reference the Book of Job," Aaron Doenges
Student presenters, please see the presentation guidelines at this link.