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Author Davis, Matthew

Title Digital Tools and Digital Divides in the Practice of Medieval Studies
Published Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
Series Medieval Media Cultures Ser
Medieval Media Cultures Ser
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series page; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; Bibliography; Chapter 1 Statistical Analysis and the Boundaries of the Genre of Old English Prayer; Bibliography; Chapter 2 if (not "Quantize, Click, and Conclude") {Digital Methods In Medieval Studies}; Old English: Beowulf and Blickling Homily XVII Project; Middle English: Lexomics, Voyant, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Bibliography; Chapter 3 Project Paradise: A Geo-Temporal Exhibit of the Hereford Map and The Book of John Mandeville
IntroductionDigital Mapping; Why Compare Hereford and Mandeville?; The Exhibit; Mandeville's Spatial Poetics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Ghastly Vignettes: Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, the Ghost of Shakespeare's Blackfriars ... ; The Ghost of Shakespeare's Blackfriars; Interlude: A Ghastly Vignette; Excursus on Method: Building Blurry; Great Houses Make Not Men Holy: The Mendicants in Oxford; Conclusion: A Ghast in the Machine; Bibliography; Chapter 5 Content is not Context: Radical Transparency and the Acknowledgement of Informational ..
User Design as Theory: the File/Folder Metaphor, the Entrenchment of Ideas, and Unintended ConsequencesActor-Network Theory and the Platform; A Nod Towards "Radical Transparency": Developing the Minor Works of John Lydgate Virtual Archive; Transcription Philosophy and Method; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Encoding and Decoding Machaut; Introduction; The Challenge of Editing Medieval Manuscripts; Je Chante Ung Chant and the Text Encoding Initiative; The Challenges of Digital Editing; Guillaume de Machaut; Intentionality and Editorial Theory; Machaut Encoded; Conclusion; Bibliography
Chapter 7 Of Dinosaurs and Dwarves: Moving on from mouvance in Digital EditionsTextual Variance and Instability; Cerquiglini's Invariable variance; Moving on to Middle English; Moving Online; Bibliography; Chapter 8 Adam Scriveyn in Cyberspace: Loss, Labour, Ideology, and Infrastructure in Interoperable Reuse ... ; Laying Foundations: Definitions for "Metadata" and "Interoperability"; Metadata; Interoperability; "Ther is so gret diversite in writyng of oure tonge," Part 1: Our Unalterable Inheritance of Codicological Variance
"Ther is so gret diversite in writyng of oure tonge," Part 2: The Unalterable Fact of Different Metadata StandardsTEI; DC; MODS; Crosswalks and Transforms; Sympathy for Adam Scriveyn: Transforming the Walters Metadata; Curation is Not the Same as Hoarding: Lessons Learned from Parker on the Web; The Tower of Babel in the Catalogue: e-codices and the Place of English in Digital Manuscript Studies; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 9 Digital Representations of the Provenance of Medieval Manuscripts; Scope; Provenance in Library Catalogues; Event-Based Modelling of Provenance
Summary A collection of essays examining the intersection between medieval studies and digital humanities, confronting how medievalists negotiate the ""virtual divide"" between the cultural artefacts that they study and the digital means by which they address those artefacts
Notes Beyond Conceptual Modelling
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Author Rose-Steel, Tamsyn
Turnator, Ece
ISBN 9781641891936
1641891939