Conference Agenda
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Opening Keynote: Constance Crompton, "Situated, Partial, Common, Shared: TEI Data as Capta"
Starting with: Welcome To Newcastle University, Professor Jennifer Richards, Director of the Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute. | ||
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Invited Keynote Situated, Partial, Common, Shared: TEI Data as Capta University of Ottawa, Canada It has been a decade since Johanna Drucker reminded us that all data are capta in the TEI-encoded pages of Digital Humanities Quarterly. In some ways this may appear to be self-evident in the context of the TEI: for many TEI users, their primary encoded material is text, and the TEI tags are a textual intervention in the sea of primary text – the resulting markup is not data, as in something objectively observed, but rather capta, as in something situated, partial, and contextually freighted (as indeed is all data. All data is capta). That said, Drucker warns her readers against self-evident claims. Drawing on Drucker's arguments, this keynote explores the tension in several of the TEI's models, and the challenges that arise from our need to have fixed start and end points, bounding boxes, interps, certainty, events, traits (the list goes on!) in order to do our analytical work. Drawing on a number of projects, I argue for the value of our shared markup language and the value it offers us through its data-like behaviour, even as it foregrounds how clearly how much TEI data, and indeed, all data, are capta. | ||
