Selected Readings

Scholarly Computing

Articles on scholarly computing in general.

• "Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers have in common, and how might our tools reflect this?" by John Unsworth
• "Computing or Humanities?: The Growth and Development of Humanities Computing" by Martyn Jessop

Also see the Text Encoding Initiative's broad bibliography on the theory of markup and on the TEI's particular application of markup:

• A Bibliography of Publications related to the TEI

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Digitization

Articles specifically on digitization of material, text or image.

• Smith, Abby. Why Digitize? Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999.
• Morrison, Alan, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice. Arts and Humanities Data Service. – This overviews digitization from start to finish.
• Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial
• Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities. 2004. Table of contents available for viewing here.
• Sukovic, Suzana. Beyond the Scriptorium: the Role of the Library in Text Encoding. D-Lib Magazine 2002.
• Unsworth, John, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, and Lou Burnard, eds. Electronic Textual Editing. This online edition consists of preview versions of all the articles; the book was published in 2006 by the Modern Language Association, and is available for purchase here.

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Markup

Articles on markup (or "encoding"). See Resources page for readings and reference on specific kinds of markup, either markup language (XML) or schema (e.g., TEI).

• Bosak, Jon and Tim Bray. "XML and the Second-Generation Web." Scientific American. Vol. 280, No. 5. (May 1999): 89-94. – "The combination of hypertext and a global Internet started a revolution. A new ingredient, XML, is poised to finish the job."
• Darnell, Rick et al. "Procedural and Descriptive Markup." in Chap. 3 ("SGML and HTML DTD") of HTML Unleashed (1997).
• Document Analysis — from the XML Reference Guide at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Kings College London.
• W3C's XML in Ten Points page, and this XML FAQ, both linked to from this list of readings— (includes material on the Text Encoding Initiative [TEI>TEI%5C] and on Extensible Style Sheet Language [XSLT>XSLT%5C]) from an introductory workshop offered at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

See again the TEI bibliography referenced above:

• A Bibliography of Publications related to the TEI

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