ISAW-GA 3024-001 | Fall 2017 | Introduction to Digital Humanities for the Ancient World
September 18 / Week 2
Textual Markup
Assignment Due
Push (AKA “Sync” in the desktop version) an HTML text of your choosing to your GitHub repository. The HTML should have links and meaningful styling, preferably using a CSS stylesheet. The files should be called something like lastname.html and lastname.css.
Download and install the Oxygen XML Editor. This is a 30-day free trial.
Sign up for NYU’s Reclaim Hosting pilot. Email instructions to follow. You will also need this service for Week 4.
Bring to Class
Bring a text of your choosing, in some kind of digital form, preferably relevant to your research work (primary or secondary is fine).
For Class
Reading
Pierazzo, E. 2016. “Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding,” in A New Companion to Digital Humanities, eds. S. Schreibman, R. Siemens, and J. Unsworth. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [Link]
Dee, S. et al. 2016. “Learning by Doing: Learning to Implement the TEI Guidelines Through Digital Classics Publication,” in Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber, eds. Romanello, M. & G. Bodard. Ubiquity. [Download here]
Bodard, G. and S. Stoyanova. 2016. “Epigraphers and Encoders: Strategies for Teaching and Learning Digital Epigraphy,” in Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber, eds. Romanello, M. & G. Bodard. Ubiquity. [Link]