Leiden University. The university to discover. DMT Week 1 Adriaan van der Weel and Peter Verhaar

Leiden University. The university to discover. The people -Peter Verhaar -English, Leiden and UCD -Publishing (IDC, now Brill) -Leiden University Library -Adriaan van der Weel -English, Leiden, TCD, and Sydney -Publishing (Brill; Fairfax, Syme Weldon) -Leiden University (UUtrecht, College of W&M)

Leiden University. The university to discover. The course -MS -Print -Digital textual transmission -Digital publication: the ‘Communications Circuit’ -Humanities computing: Universal Machine -Practical hands-on knowledge -Theoretical and practical insights -Way of thinking

Leiden University. The university to discover. Communications Circuit

Leiden University. The university to discover. Practical matters -Organisation of classes -Web support (for now): - e09.htmlhttp:// /DMTprogramm e09.html -Various locations for seminar! -Today: Conceptual framework

Leiden University. The university to discover. Books and Digital Media

Leiden University. The university to discover. Digital Convergence

Leiden University. The university to discover. Analogue is digital, too

Leiden University. The university to discover. Publishing

Leiden University. The university to discover. Publishing in DMT -Digital-born materials -E.g., -Digitised materials -E.g., er/view.jsp?request=ubl012 er/view.jsp?request=ubl012

Leiden University. The university to discover. The digital lifecycle

Leiden University. The university to discover. The Universal Machine -The computer can be made to do anything that humans can catch in an algorithm -Computers ‘reshape the objects of study, alter research possibilities and even begin to redefine what constitutes research’ (Manoff 1997, quoted by Dallas) -Cf Anderson, ‘The End of Theory’

Leiden University. The university to discover. BUT... -Humanistic research is: -Quantity: not such a wealth of data. Bitty. Discontinuous. -Quality: narrative, evaluative, ambiguous, subjective, conceptual -All knowledge is interpretation! (cf Andriesse)

Leiden University. The university to discover. Markup -Example: This is the first lecture of Digital Media Technology -Serves both publication (the CC) and the Universal Machine -‘First-level markup’: rather intersubjective -‘Second-level markup’: more subjective

Leiden University. The university to discover. Knowledge organisation -‘Harnessing knowledge’ -The book (‘Order of the Book’) -Digital (‘Digital Order’?) -Making text intelligent (main focus) -Using intelligent agents to mine text -People (Web 2.0)

Leiden University. The university to discover. Characteristics of media 1 -A. Oral: -Unquantifiable (we are adrift in a sea of ‘knowledge’ -Relatively unstructured; unsystematic (narrative) -Usually relevant -Rather subjective -Changeable

Leiden University. The university to discover. Characteristics of media 2 -B. Book (NB: MS vs print): - Quantifiable (in principle) - Available in other time and place - Fixed - More structured (writing/the book is a structuring device: cf Aristotle’s Categories.) -C. Digital - ??? - Takes characteristics from both

Leiden University. The university to discover. Knowledge representation: the new knowledge machines -Structure and content -Borges (structure) -Ontology (content) -What knowable things exist -What are the relationships that hold between them -The book has structure and content: chapters, paragraphs, footnotes, etc. -XML represents structure and content

Leiden University. The university to discover. New research questions? -Who decides the agenda? Need to lead, rather than follow.

Leiden University. The university to discover. Text and markup

Leiden University. The university to discover. The course project -Book trade correspondence project: h/BookTradeCorrProj.html h/BookTradeCorrProj.html