date
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topics
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project work
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reading
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guest speaker
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8.24
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introduction: literary studies in a wired world
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8.31
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the Internet, the Web, and HTML
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subscribe to class listserv
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1-9 * ; Bruce Sterling, "A Short History of the Internet"; "A Conversation with Allen Renear" (parts one and
two).
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William Marshall, Director of Special Collections
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9.7
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HTML (cont.) and the Peal Collection
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open your account on the Student Web Server
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23-32, 165-167; materials in the online W. Hugh Peal Collection: Catalog of an Exhibition, esp. "An Overview" and
"Wordsworth and Coleridge."
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Becky Ryder, Preservation Librarian
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9.14
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images I: acquisition
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your personal homepage online
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Besser and Trant, "Introduction to Imaging," sections 1-12 (skim others if interested).
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Eric Weig, Electronic Resources Librarian
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9.21
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images II: manipulation
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WebMonkey's "Photoshop Crash Course," lessons 1 and 2.
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9.28
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electronic scholarly editing
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your digital images acquired and online
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147-165; Jerome McGann, "The Rationale of Hypertext."
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Michael Brown, Computer Science Department
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10.5
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markup I: SGML
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"The SGML Primer" (to be distributed).
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10.12
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markup II: the TEI
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your transcriptions proofed and online
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Examine Virginia's Introduction to TEI and Guide to Document Preperation, espcially the sections on the TEI Header, Transcriptional Work, and Tagging Manuscripts.
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Anne Mahoney (Tufts) on text encoding
Wednesday, 11 October
3:30 PM, 327 McVey Hall
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10.19
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electronic resources and pedagogy
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129-145; examine Mark Twain in His Times
and Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture.
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Gordon Hutner, Department of English
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10.26
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markup III: XML/XSL
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your transcriptions encoded in TEI and parsed
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Jon Bosak and Tim Bray, "XML and the Second Generation Web";
Virginia's "Introduction to XML."
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11.2
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e x a m [copy here]
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11.9
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markup IV: XSL (cont.)
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"XSL Transformations" (skim).
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11.16
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search engines and metadata
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your XML conversion and XSL stylesheets completed
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11-22; John Unsworth, "The Scholar in the Digital Library."
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Robert Tannenbaum, Director of
Academic Computing Services
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11.30
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electronic resources and research
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115-128; examine the Electronic Beowulf, the William Blake Archive, and the
Crystal Palace simulation.
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Kevin Kiernan, Department of English
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12.7
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electronic literature and literary theory
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169-186; examine recent contents of the electronic book review.
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