This document provides instructions and an overview for a class exercise on marking up a text. It discusses key concepts around documents, texts, levels of meaning, and intertextuality. It explains that the goal of markup is to surface the latent hypertext in a text and make it available for analysis and interpretation. The exercise will involve using semantic HTML to markup the beginning of Jane Austen's Persuasion, developing a TEI-like content model. Elements will use class and id attributes, and div and span elements, following a technique called POSH (Plain Old Semantic HTML).

1. Studio 3: Marking Up a Text
Prof. Alvarado
MDST 3703/7703
13 September 2012

2. Business
• Can everyone access their Home
Directory from their desktop?
– i.e. not just from the web interface
• The required McCarty reading was
“„Knowing true things by what their
mockeries be‟: Modelling in the
Humanities”
– My reference to “thick” vs. “deep” in lecture
was from the other reading
– Sorry for the confusion!

3. Review
• URLs to your Home Directory pages
look like this:
– http://people.virginia.edu/~NETID/RESOURC
E
• Where …
NETID = Your UVA Net ID (e.g. rca2t) and
RESOURCE: The filename and the path to the
file
• E.g. index.html OR mydirectory/file.html
• Identical to what is under public_html

4. Anatomy of a URL

5. Review
• Documents, Texts, and Levels
• Data models: Networks, Trees, Tables
• Latent Hypertext and Intertext

6. Documents, Texts, and Levels
• Documents and texts are different
– Related as medium is to message
– The message (text) is independent but must
always exist as part of a medium
• Documents are things like
books, memos, etc.
– They have a material form and a basic content
model
• Texts are more complicated
– They are linguistic and therefore related
grammar, poetics, and meaning

7. Where is meaning?
What does it look like?

8. The Theory of Levels
We can think of the various aspects of
documents and text as forming levels
DOCUMENT
Layout and Style  Physical interface
Structure  Physical and logic structure
Content  Text, Image, etc.
TEXT
Syntagm  Strings of characters and patterns
Structure  grammar, pragmatics, etc.
Meaning  Intertextual connections in the mind

9. Each level has appropriate
models and tools

10. Three Model Types
• We have seen three major models so far
– Networks (hypertext), Trees (OHCO), and Tables
• Networks
– Non-linear relations across lexia
– HTML
• Trees
– Linear and nested relations within lexia
– TEI
• Tables
– Elements of lexia extracted and classified
– Relational databases, spreadsheets

11. TREE NETWORK TABLE

12. Intertextuality is latent hypertext
Goal of markup is to “surface”
latent hypertext and make it
available for analysis and
interpretation

13. Today’s Exercise
• We will markup part of a primary
source
– The beginning of an edition of Jane Austen’s
Persuasion
• We will develop a TEI-like content
model and use HTML to do the markup
• Then we will markup of the text for
intertextual content
• Procedures posted on blog

14. New Concepts
• We will use POSH
– “Plain Old Semantic HTML”
• Use CLASS and ID attributes in your
elements
– <p class=“extract”> … </p>
• Use SPAN and DIV elements to handle
cases where HTML does not provides
an explicit element
– <div class=“page”> … </div>