ENGL 569 (F97): Syllabus

Readings

Yuri Rubinsky and Murray Maloney, SGML on the Web: Small Steps beyond HTML
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen,"Bare Bones TEI" (SGML version.
David Seaman,"The Electronic Text Center Introduction to TEI and Guide to Document Preparation" (Uvatei)
David Seaman," A Quick List of TEI Tags extracted from the TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange" {TEIquic)
"TEI Guidelines 2: A Gentle Introduction to SGML"
Lou Burnard and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen,"TEI Lite: An Introduction to Text Encoding for Interchange"(=teiu5.sgm)
Lou Burnard,The BNC Handbook: Exploring the British National Corpus with SARA(handbk.ps--you need to print this)
Gunter Kress and Theo van Leeuwen, Reading Images: the Grammar of Visual Design

Software: in addition to the Panorama Pro 2 cdrom disk that comes with Rubinsky and Maloney, you might want to download and install Ebenezer's TEI-EMACS package. (Both of these are available in the lab.)

Papers (!) and assignments

Schedule of Readings and Topics

Sept. 30
Overview: the three parts (SGML, TEILITE, Reading Images); Computing in the Humanities; Explore site in Communications Lab A.
Oct. 2
Rubinsky and Maloney, pp. 1-33; (the following link is good only in the lab)Bryan, c. 2; The three corners of structure
Oct. 7
RM, 33-87; history of markup languages; (again, good only in lab:)Bryan, c. 1;
Oct. 9
cont.;"Gentle"; using EMACS to edit SGML; examples of textarchive and xoed;
Oct. 14
RM, c. 4;
Oct. 16
RM, c. 5 and exs. 31-32
Oct. 21
TEI--TEIU6 and 5
Oct. 23
Begin survey of archive
Oct.28
TEIQUIC; UVATEI; more archive
Oct. 30
MU
Nov. 4
comparing DTDS, TAGUSAGE
Nov.6
DSSSL, TEI and JADE; conversions and stylings
Nov. 11
NO class
Nov. 13
Begin Kress and van Leeuwen, Intro and C.1
Nov. 18
KvL, c. 2
Nov. 20
KvL, c.3; website structures; link-following bots
Nov. 25
KvL, c.4
Dec. 2
KvL, c.5; critique of art site due
Dec. 4
KvL, c. 6
Dec. 9
KvL, cc. 7-9

Post or Read Messages.

George L. Dillon
Department of English Lang and Lit
30 Sept. 1997