Tag: XML

  • A New Perspective

    The past two weeks have greatly enhanced my appreciation for the work that goes in to marking up a text, which in our case was our Powell Diary transcriptions. I had no idea how much detail is behind a marked up text. I think that the most fascinating thing is that the average person is…

  • Categorize the data

    Close reading in digital humanity is a little bit different from the traditional reading process. From my own experience, it is a process of categorizing rather than information gathering. Elena Pierazzo values this categorizing process a lot in her report. “For print the choice of which features to include in the transcription is limited largely…

  • The Process of Editing Texts

    “The process of selection is inevitably an interpretative act: what we choose to represent and what we do not depends either on the particular vision that we have of a particular manuscript or on practical constraints.” (Elena Pierazzo 2.1) Through collaborative work on the transcription of the Powell Diary along with applying TEI-compliant XML markup…

  • #tagging

    The close reading of a text can in some cases reveal much more substance than other methods. In the case of the Powell diary, close reading has enabled us to learn about the lives of Shamokin residents, both native and Moravian, in great depth. According to Pierazzo, we conducted a diplomatic edition; a transcription that is…