1. Introduction to Humanities Computing Spring 1999 Lecture Seven

2. E-Text Project Planning Prototyping Scanning or Buying Proofing Research Markup Interactive Study Publication

3. Obtaining an E-text s Acquire one from someone else. Oxford Text Archive Search the Internet using WWW Commercial Vendors s Create it yourself Scan it using OCR software OCR = Optical Character Recognition Type it in or hire services for input Markup Validate

4. Quick Historiography of the Western Word s Oral to Literate Culture 400 BC Athenian Archives s Literate to Publishing Culture 1455 Gutenberg Bible 1702 - Daily Courant (London’s First Newspaper) 1755 - Johnson’s Dictionary Lucien Febvre The coming of the book : the impact of printing 1450-1800

5. On the way to hypertext... s Publishing Manuscript s Broadcasting Oratory s Gathering Scholarly Apparatus s Publishing Print s Broadcasting Newspapers & Journals s Gathering Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

6. Electronic Developments s 1953 - Computer Printer s 1959 - Xerox Photocopiers s 1965 - “Hypertext” term coined by Nelson s 1977 - Laser Typesetting s 1980 - Laserprinter s 1985 - Adobe Postscript s 1985 - Aldus Pagemaker s 1990 - WWW

7. More on Markup This is true. Style Sheet 1 Style Sheet 2 This is true This gets quite technical in a fascinating fashion.

8. Show versus Tell s Logical searchable adaptive customizable s HTML examples s Visual control fixed s HTML examples

9. HTML is but a dialect SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language SGML is a document structure language DSSL Document Style Semantics and Specification Language DSSSL is a document processing language, especially for presentation or transformation

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