As digital humanities practitioners at a small liberal arts college, it’s important to be aware of criticism of digital humanities work, as well as negative perceptions of liberal arts schools. Read the following article:<\/p>\n
“Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities”<\/a> By Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, David Golumbia<\/p>\n Given what you have learned so far about digital humanities and digital scholarship, what is your reaction to this article? Do you agree with the authors, disagree, or somewhere in between? Make sure you are acquainted with the concept of neoliberalism<\/a>. The article “The Neoliberal Arts: How College Sold Its Soul to the Market”<\/a> by\u00a0William Deresiewicz may provide some additional context.\u00a0Once you’ve read the article and formulated some thoughts, check out some responses<\/a>. Feel free to incorporate their arguments into yours, or refute them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today, we will discuss the feedback from the mid-point check-in as a group. Individual meetings will be scheduled to follow up.<\/p>\n XML\u00a0<\/a>(eXtensible Markup Language) is a way to encode text in a way that is both human and machine readable; it allows text to be stored, transported, described, and reused across a variety of applications (think of it as metadata for text that lives in the same document). This week, we will work with XML in a few ways, creating XML documents on paper, then looking at digital applications.<\/p>\n Today, we will look at transcriptions of letters from Jack Peirs<\/a> to see how we can add XML markup to encode them. We will need to think about a schema to use, then apply our tags.<\/p>\n Blog Post – Due\u00a0Tuesday, July 5 As digital humanities practitioners at a small liberal arts college, it’s important to be aware of criticism of digital humanities work, as well as negative perceptions of liberal arts schools. Read the following article: “Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities” By Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, … Continue reading “Week 6 – Text Encoding: Endowing Text with Meaning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/482"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Monday, June 27<\/h2>\n
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)<\/h3>\n
9am-Noon: Mid-Point Check-In<\/h3>\n
Noon-1pm: Lunch (On Your Own)<\/h3>\n
1pm-5pm: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n
Tuesday, June 28<\/h2>\n
All Day: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n
Wednesday, June 29<\/h2>\n
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)<\/h3>\n
9am-Noon: Introduction to XML and Markup (Library 014)<\/h3>\n
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Noon-1pm: DSSF Lunch (Specialty Dining)<\/h3>\n
1pm-5pm: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n
Thursday, June 30<\/h2>\n
All Day: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n
Friday, July 1<\/h2>\n
8:30am-9am: Check-In<\/h3>\n
9am-Noon:\u00a0Encoding the Letters of Jack Peirs (Library 014)<\/h3>\n
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