DMT 2011 Week 2

1. DMT 2011Week 2 Leiden University. The university to discover. • Adriaan van der Weel

2. Leiden University. The university to discover. The digital lifecycle

3. Leiden University. The university to discover. DMT 2011 Project • Erven F. Bohn correspondence • Creation: • Transcription • Proofing • ‘Enrichment’: encoding in TEI XML • Storage • Retrieval • Publication

4. Leiden University. The university to discover. Recapitulation

5. Leiden University. The university to discover. The computer as a medium 1 • From the book to digital ways of ordering information • Media as knowledge machines • Characteristics of media determine the nature of the knowledge machine

6. Leiden University. The university to discover. The computer as a medium 2 • Publishing: • Conventional, involving text like books, journals, newspapers, etc. • Cultural heritage, involving any modality (but BDMS limits itself to text and images) • Digital born vs digitised materials • Profit vs non-profit

7. Leiden University. The university to discover. More than a medium • The computer is • A medium (replacement for printed textual transmission) • A Universal Machine • As a Universal Machine the computer is the vehicle for ‘humanities computing’ • No clear division

8. Leiden University. The university to discover. Digital ‘knowledge machine’ • More than a digital ‘book’: • Making text intelligent (main focus) • Using intelligent agents to mine text • People (Web 2.0) • Need markup: • Documents • Rules • Styles • Markup application

9. Leiden University. The university to discover. XML basics • 1. Application • Document instances • Validation (DTD, Schema) • Styles/transformations (Week 5-7) • 2. The markup language • Elements • Attributes • Entities • ASCII and Unicode (next week)

10. Leiden University. The university to discover. The markup application

11. Leiden University. The university to discover. Today: The Book Trade Correspondence Project

12. Leiden University. The university to discover. The Bohn publishing company • Bohn founded Haarlem, 1752 • By Christoph Henrich Bohn from Lübeck (Germany) • Son: François Bohn (1751-1819) • 1875 no more bookselling • Up to 1900: 55% literature, philology, music, arts, history, geography, travel;10% school books; 35% general, children’s, theology, science and social science • After 1900: [chiefly science and professional]

13. Leiden University. The university to discover. The Bohn archive • Provenance: Erven F. Bohn [publishers], Haarlem • Ca 1973, through Ernst Braches, keeper of rare books of the University Library • Was using the archive for PhD research on ‘De nieuwe kunst’ • Finding aid (EAD)

14. Leiden University. The university to discover. The Bohn archive -2- • General documentation • Financial • Correspondence • Editorial and title production • Litigation • Etc.

15. Leiden University. The university to discover. Correspondence (incoming)

16. Leiden University. The university to discover. Transcription • Dear Sirs, • I will accept / • £10 for the / • rights to make a / • translation into / • Dutch of my / • novel entitled / • Wanda // • Printers will / • send you entire / • proofs from London / • instantly. Please / • to send money / • on receipt of this / • Address Madame / • Ouida. ~c. 2 words illegible~/ • ~c. 1 word illegible~ Ouida / • L. de la Ramée

17. Leiden University. The university to discover. Correspondence (outgoing) • An explanation of how letters in were copied in the nineteenth century

18. Leiden University. The university to discover. • <div type="letter"> <opener> <dateline> <date when="1920-12-04"> 4 Dec <supplied reason="from preprinted letterhead">19</supplied>20. </date> </dateline> <address> <addrLine> <orgName> B.H. Blackwell Ltd </orgName> </addrLine> <addrLine> Oxford </addrLine> </address> <salute> Dear Sir, </salute> </opener> <p> In reply to your order d.d.22/11 <lb/> we can inform you that <title>Folia Neuro-<lb/ Biologica</title> Band 13 has not yet appeared. </p> <closer> <salute> Yours truly, </salute> <signed>p.o De Erven F. Bohn </signed> <signed> M.K. </signed> </closer> </div>

19. Leiden University. The university to discover. Seminar • 1. HTML exercise • 2. Using the BDMS server • 3. Document analysis

20. HTML <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”><html> <head> <title>[Title of the web page]</title> </head> <body> </body> </html>

21. <p> for paragraphs • <b> for bold text • <i> for italic text

22. Hyperlinks: <a href=“http://www.bookandbyte.org” target=“_new” > Click here</a> • Images:<img src=“http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/4120044616/”/> • The browser must be able to access the referenced file using the path that you provide.

23. <table width=“100%”><tr> <td> Row 1, column 1</td> <td>Row 1, column 2</td></tr><tr> <td> Row 2, column 1</td> <td> Row 2, column 2 </td> </tr> </table>

24. stylesheet.css stylesheet.css body { margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; font-family: Arial; } P { text-indent: 1.5em; } <link type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” href=”stylesheet.css”> <link type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” href=”stylesheet.css”>

25. One double quote is not the same as two single quotes! • Be careful with “multiple extentions” in filenames! E.g. dmt.exercise1.html • Tags must be nested properly. • MS Word may convert regular double quotes to “smart quotes”

26. Leiden University. The university to discover. From typography to markup • Homo typographicus • We are conditioned by books • We live in the ‘Order of the Book’ • Books order and structure: • The ‘libroverse’ contains books • Inside each book • Typography is an implicit structuring and ordering device • Computers need explicit instructions: • Markup: HTML, XML, TEI, etc.

27. Leiden University. The university to discover. Document analysis • What relevant knowable things exist • How can we classify them • What is their relationship • Different categories of text have different relevant classes of knowable things, e.g.: • Correspondence • Drama • Poetry

28. Document Analysis Exercise • Weekly programme > Week 2