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Beyond the Document Lou Burnard
The message  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Plan ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Three simple truths ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Irrevocable digitality ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Literary & Linguistic Computing
1960-1980 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
LLC is also a journal,  and an annual conference ,[object Object]
LLC is alive and well and living in France  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Humanities Computing
1980-1994 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Institutionalization ,[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The rise of the HC centre
Communities ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The challenge for HC
Resources digital resources encoding analysis abstract model
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Transmitting our interpretations
TEI: the main achievement of HC? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Digital Humanities
1995 - ? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The rise of the digital library ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
An alternative model ,[object Object],When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. When developers can access, redistribute, and enhance the digital resources underlying a digital application, new applications can evolve. People can add value, people can adapt it, people can fix bugs.
Open up the data warehouse!
Digital humanities manifesto 2.0 Digital Humanities is not a unified field but  an array of convergent practices  that explore a universe in which: a)  print is no longer the exclusive or the normative medium  in which knowledge is produced and/or disseminated; instead, print finds itself absorbed into new, multimedia configurations; and b)  digital tools, techniques, and media have altered the production and dissemination of knowledge  in the arts, human and social sciences. http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/digitalhumanities/2009/05/29/the-digital-humanities-manifesto-20/#0
ibid... Digital Humanities implies the  multi-purposing and multiple channeling of humanistic knowledge : no channel excludes the other.  Its economy is abundance based, not one based upon scarcity .... though notions of humanistic research are everywhere under institutional pressure, there is (potentially) plenty for all.  And, indeed, there is plenty to do.
The importance of  not  reading ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/hownot2read.html
How to not read ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Escaping from the text ,[object Object]
 
A classical case study
CLAROS , for example ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
A mix of technologies... Beazley Archive DAI Arachne LGPN (Oxford) LIMC (Paris) .NET / ASP XSLT, PHP Java XSLT Relational database: MS SQL Server XML database Relational database: MySQL Relational database: MySQL Browser Browser Browser Browser
...but a common conceptual model
How does it actually work?
What makes this possible? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Rethinking the digital edition ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Components of the digital edition ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The textual trinity ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Convergence ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
conclusions
A key role for the Humanities ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Du Literary and linguistic computing aux Digital Humanities : retour sur 40 ans de relations entre sciences humaines et informatique

  • 1. Beyond the Document Lou Burnard
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  • 16. Resources digital resources encoding analysis abstract model
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  • 23. Open up the data warehouse!
  • 24. Digital humanities manifesto 2.0 Digital Humanities is not a unified field but an array of convergent practices that explore a universe in which: a) print is no longer the exclusive or the normative medium in which knowledge is produced and/or disseminated; instead, print finds itself absorbed into new, multimedia configurations; and b) digital tools, techniques, and media have altered the production and dissemination of knowledge in the arts, human and social sciences. http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/digitalhumanities/2009/05/29/the-digital-humanities-manifesto-20/#0
  • 25. ibid... Digital Humanities implies the multi-purposing and multiple channeling of humanistic knowledge : no channel excludes the other. Its economy is abundance based, not one based upon scarcity .... though notions of humanistic research are everywhere under institutional pressure, there is (potentially) plenty for all. And, indeed, there is plenty to do.
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  • 32. A mix of technologies... Beazley Archive DAI Arachne LGPN (Oxford) LIMC (Paris) .NET / ASP XSLT, PHP Java XSLT Relational database: MS SQL Server XML database Relational database: MySQL Relational database: MySQL Browser Browser Browser Browser
  • 33. ...but a common conceptual model
  • 34. How does it actually work?
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Editor's Notes

  1. The programming to integrate the datasets virtually and to develop applications for accessing them easily have been developed here in Oxford over the past year thanks to a grant from the Fell Fund. Only one post was funded and only for one year, but the work was so exciting that others can freely of their time. In addition to those who are speaking today I would like to acknowledge the work of Sebastian Rahtz in OUCS who programmes the LGPN, to Reinhard Foertsch and Robert Kummer in Cologne, and Anne-Violaine Szabdos in Paris. My vision for the future sees CLAROS in museums, libraries, universities, schools and homes. I see a global registry of antiquities and I see public participation in creating it. That future is now and the University of Oxford is leading it.
  2. Graham…. The CLAROS system provides what we might call a search and discovery service over the different data sources. They have each developed independently over many years and each uses different underlying technologies to deliver information about the same very large subject. Beazley has pottery, engraved gems, sculpture in the form of plaster casts, and antiquarian books and photographs. Arachne and DAI have sculpture, antiquarian books and photographs. LIMC has all types of classical art with mythological subjects. LGPN has personal names of ancient Greeks.
  3. Each also uses different technologies and different vocabularies to represent information. CLAROS needed a way to bring them together. Instead of developing our own bespoke system we looked very carefully at the work that had already been done and we found two standards that seemed to suit our needs. The first is CIDOC-CRM. This is an ISO standard that was developed under the aegis of UNESCO for ICOM – for the world’s museums. It provides a flexible framework and vocabulary, and seems to offer greater potential for creating a common framework than other systems we know such as OAI, CDWA and MuseumDat. It also seems to be well suited to other domains, such as describing scientific experiments – the type of work that I usually do with computers. And this seems ot us to be a good thing. The second is RDF. This is a World Wide Web standard, a kind of universal data format and it is the base format for current work on the next generation web, often called a “Semantic Web” or “Web of Data”.