Technology and (Humanities) Research
John Unsworth
May 4, 2000
Creation of a research resource
The
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Using existing resources
Making of America
Perseus
New kinds of questions, new understanding
Text Analysis: The
World of Dante
Ready Access to Primary Sources: Valley
Newspapers
Reconstruction: Crystal
Palace
The importance of careful design
Durability vs. immediacy: The
Book of Thel, Copy F
Separating capture from delivery: The
Salisbury Project
Designing for content: Rossetti,
Double Works
Standards
Text Data/Metadata: SGML, TEI and TEI-Lite, XML, XSL, EAD
Dublin Core, Marc, etc.
Databases: SQL, Flat/Relational, Export
Image Data: JPEG, MPEG, PNG vs. GIF, TIFF,
Video Data: MPEG vs. Quicktime
Model Data: VRML vs. Autocad, FormZ, etc.
Working with libraries
Cataloguing: Project
Report From the Nyingma
Tantras Project
Preservation: Avoiding
Technological Quicksand
(Intellectual) Access: Blake
Image Search
Collaborative work
Blake-Proj
(Potentially) Interdisciplinary work
Uncle
Tom's Cabin & American Culture
Experimental work
The
Rossetti Archive
WaxWeb
The importance of peer review
Postmodern Culture
The
William Blake Archive
The importance of documentation
The
William Blake Archive
The role of publishers
The
Valley of the Shadow
Piers
Plowman
The
Rossetti Archive
Document URL: http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu
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