TRETTIEN, Whitney. 2021. Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork.
Book review.
Book review.
This volume responds to the current interest in computational and statistical methods to describe and analyse metre, style, and poeticity, particularly insofar as they can open up new research perspectives in literature, linguistics, and literary history. The contributions are representative of the diversity of approaches, methods, and goals of a t...
Hundreds of thousands of Greek and Latin inscriptions from the Roman world have survived until today, scattered across all continents and spanning fifteen centuries of ancient history. Epigraphic documents constitute an essential source of evidence for our knowledge of the ancient world and can be considered an authentic repository of big data. How...
Visuelle Repräsentationen von Literatur prägen schon lange ihre Institutionalisierung: Literarische Bewegungen werden in Schulbüchern in Form von Zeitleisten dargestellt, dramatische Handlungen mit der Freytagschen Pyramide abgebildet, und dies schon seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Bereits diese Ansätze setzten sich zum Ziel, übergeordnete Strukturen ans...
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As Russ Wooldridge pointed out many years ago, all too often “the computer disappears into the background” once its results are to hand (http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/chwp/). This is especially true if those results fall short of expectations. In the following I describe the history of a project whose failure in those terms turned out to be far...
The complexity of natural language works, especially transinformational works, cannot be adequately represented by what has become the institutional standard for DH editorial projects, TEI. In that respect book technologies remain far superior to current digital tools in sustaining their reciprocal communicative action. Recent developments in graph...
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If citation is a common practice for publications, it is relatively new for data especially in SSH. This paper will present the work carried out during the SSHOC project about data citation in general and more precisely how to make them actionable.