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Digitizing is
questioning,or else
Professor Willard McCartyKing’s College Londonstaff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/
Long Room Hub Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin, 16/4/08
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1.The problem
2.Lessons of history, 1957-1989
3. The matchmaker’s tasks
4. What the tools say
5. Turning to confront the context
6. Bridging discourse
7. An improvisational companion to criticism?
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Herbert Simon, untitled lecture notes, Operations Research Society of America meeting, 14 November 1957
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Times Literary Supplement, 27 April 1962
Not a “menial tool” but a telescope of the mind that may change our outlook.
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Globe and Mail, 16 November 1965
Scientific American, May 2001
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www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3244/
www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=9547
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Computers and the Humanities 1 (1966: 3-6)
Next step is to be “truly imaginative”
Scholars’ primary involvement is with the creative act
Reorganization of thinking for the new age
10Computers and the Humanities 11 (1978): 211-15
the problem is our limited conceptual framework and the unexamined concept of text
Our range of vision has not been enlarged
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1.The problem
2.Lessons of history, 1957-1989
3. The matchmaker’s tasks
4. What the tools say
5. Turning to confront the context
6. Bridging discourse
7. An improvisational companion to criticism?
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Computers and the Humanities 11 (1978): 211-15
In Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Schreibman, Siemens and Unsworth (Blackwell’s, 2004)
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1.The problem
2.Lessons of history, 1957-1989
3. The matchmaker’s tasks
4. What the tools say
5. Turning to confront the context
6. Bridging discourse
7. An improvisational companion to criticism?
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Keyword-in-context concordancer
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Literary concepts & their interrelations expressed in software
Relational database diagram
A typical ontology diagram
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Commentary in an annotation tool
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Traces of stylistic features from a statistical analyzer
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On-screen output from a keyword-in-context concordancer
Phrasal concordance to the Bible, 16C
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9C glossed ms of Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (Leiden 48)
Annotated scholarly article using Pliny
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Relational database diagram of entites, attributes and relationships
Cosmological diagram showing the “Great Chain of Being”
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1.The problem
2.Lessons of history, 1957-1989
3. The matchmaker’s tasks
4. What the tools say
5. Turning to confront the context
6. Bridging discourse
7. An improvisational companion to criticism?
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modelling of
modelling for
Modelling relations
Natural system/ artefact
Formal/ abstract system
internal logic
Based on Rosen 2000: 159 and Geertz 1993/1973: 93.
internal logic
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Improvisational
modelling
Formal/ abstract system
internal logic ?Various
temporary construals
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1.The problem
2.Lessons of history, 1957-1989
3. The matchmaker’s tasks
4. What the tools say
5. Turning to confront the context
6. Bridging discourse
7. An improvisational companion to criticism?
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Computational analogy of mind:
human brain cells grown in tissue culture on a Motorola 68000 chip
Judy Trogadis, Toronto Western Hospital, 1985
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1.The problem
2.Lessons of history, 1957-1989
3. The matchmaker’s tasks
4. What the tools say
5. Turning to confront the context
6. Bridging discourse
7. An improvisational companion to criticism?
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IVANHOEPossible Ivanhoes
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Various players
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Vere, inquam, magistrum mirabilem mihi dedisti, qui a me factus me doceat, meque docens ipse nihil sapiat. Imo propter patientiam et obedientiam sui eum maxime amplector; cantabit enim mihi quando voluero, et numquam de mei sensus tarditate commotus verberibus vel iniuriis cruciabit.
?Indeed, I say, you gave me a wonderful master, who made by me teaches me, and teaching me himself knows nothing. Rather I embrace him in submission and obedience; truly he will play to me when I wish, and never will he torment, with floggings or blows, the thoughts that move slowly from me.
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