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Database != Hyperlink
What is a database? This might seem trivial, but the many responses to this question that I have received clearly represent the different perspectives to which people view data and information. When writing a paper or researching something, most writers turn to the web in order to gain access to new information. On online…
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What is TEI Encoding?
The Text Encoding Initiative (also known as TEI) has been around since 1987. According to the TEI website, it was founded to “develop guidelines for encoding machine-readable texts in the humanities and social sciences.” The majority of funding for the TEI comes from member fees. The great thing about the TEI is that the…
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Text without an identity
There are five main parts of the TEI header which themselves have smaller parts. According to the TEI Guidelines: <fileDesc> contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file. <encodingDesc> documents the relationship between an electronic text and the source or sources from which it was derived. <profileDesc> provides a detailed description of non-bibliographic aspects…
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TEI Encoding and Headers
The main parts of a TEI Header are the file description, encoding description, text profile, container element and revision history. In the case of the Williams poem, the Header informs us of the poem’s bibliographic information, the encoding description lets us know the poem was keyed in using Google books and the text…
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TEI as a LEGO
All of us played with Legos in our childhood. How much is exciting? Think about a very big Lego with hundreds of pieces there. We always enjoy challenging ourselves. So, you might join your brothers and sisters and even parents to help you how to assemble it correctly. Most of the time there are pictures…
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Purpose of TEI Headers
There are three main parts of the TEI header in this file. First, the file description provides general bibliographical information. In this case, the file description is split into two sections labelled “title statement” and “publication statement.” Together, the information here includes the name of the piece, the author, and the “distributor” [of…
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Small Radios, Big Televisions: Radical(!) Environmentalism with a Burst of ’80s Nostalgia
I first saw the video game Small Radios, Big Televisions advertised on the late-night programming block Adult Swim in early November 2016. Immediately, I knew that it was something I had to look into, especially upon discovering that the developers at Fire Face Media described the game as an “[exploration of] digital worlds stored on…
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XML- Importance & Applications
XML stands for EXtensible Markup Language and it serves two purposes. XML is used to structure data so that it can be stored and transported. The tags provides structure to the data. Within a XML document, there are tags and text. The text that is to be stored is surrounded by tags that follow…
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Importance of markup
People are excited by reading attractive parts of a book or an article. Some pieces might be very important. Some articles are too long or not easy to understand all pieces firstly. Most of the time it is not necessary to read entire a blog or a document. We markup some elements which they are more…
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The Joy of Data!
Hi, all! I hope that you had a great winter break! In the last days, I have been preparing the syllabus for one of the courses that will start teaching this spring. The name of the class is “Internet Studies,” which deals with scholarly approaches to the network of networks. During my course…