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A Beginner's Guide To Playing Interactive Fiction
Interactive fiction: half game, half book
Interactive Fiction (or IF for short) is both a computer game and a book, or rather something in between. You usually take on the role of the main character in a story. The game tells you what happens to the character, and you tell the game how the character should act. This is…
Academic History Writing And Its Disconnects By Tim Hitchcock | Digital Humanities Now
Limitations of note taking on ebooks
....I agree with you about the current crop of book simulators. They are rather stupid, and don’t let me have the kind of dialogic relationship with text that I want. Why shouldn’t my ‘reader’ know what I am working on, and privilege that subject in the text (perhaps…
An Example Of Ontology Driven Software Engineering
A self-learning annotation service, not rules
One of they key requirements for the semantic annotation service was that we wanted it to be client driven and thus self learning. We did not want it to be fundamentally rules-based which would require indefinite ongoing maintenance of knowledge rules to ensure the F1 scores…
Callimachus—avoiding The Pitfalls Of Xml For Collaborative Text Analysis
Annotation structures vs exploratory structures
Putting it another way, annotative projects are those in which the text is linked to external information, be it commentary, historical context, biographical details or any other class of supportive information. The primary research of such projects tends to be aimed at…
Fragmentations
Fragmentions: linking to words in a page
What if instead we combined these two ideas: use a fragment to identify part of a page mention words in the page as the identifier I’ve named these “fragmentions” To tell these apart from an id link, I suggest using a double hash — ## for the fragment, and then words that…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
The networked computer
The networked computer acts like a telephone in offering one-to-one real-time communication, like a television in broadcasting moving pictures, like an auditorium in bringing groups together for lectures and discussions, like a library in offering vast amounts of textual…
How Books Will Become Machines
Reading the encyclopedia like a hunter
As pages and paragraphs offered clear organizational landmarks in a volume of text, we got used to positioning ourselves spatially within a discourse, to evaluate the length of journey that we need to take to reach the conclusion of a demonstration. We got ac- customed to…
The core business model of search engines is about selling words
If search engines become the most direct way to discover books, writers will be encouraged to adapt their style and chosen vocabularies in consequences, reusing, for instance, words often searched or choosing them based on marketing considerations. We will progressively…
The encyclopedia's victory over the book
The first way to continue the book mechanization process consists in taking an encyclopedic perspective on book contents, introducing descriptive formalisms in order to turn structured text into well standardized resources. [...] This de- coupling between form and content has…
Nature of the book
One of the most obvious differences between books and maps is that books are representations of an higher dimension. A book is a container, a volume of dimension 3, capable of hosting one-dimensional text and bi-dimensional maps, tables, diagrams and trees. As a volume, a book…
Hypotheses, Evidence And Relationships: The Hyper Approach For Representing Scientific Knowledge Claims
Nanopublications require extracting discourse pragmatics
The shift to author intent means shifting our conceptualization of the text towards discourse: that is, a move from viewing the text as a collection of verbs and nouns, to a view of the contextualized pragmatic language used for science. [...] We call this conceptual approach…
Iannotate — Whatever Happened To The Web As An Annotation System? | The Scholarly Kitchen
Challenges in digital annotation systems
There are significant challenges to digital annotation systems, particularly shared annotation systems. While server space was an issue with Mosaic in the 1990s, this isn’t the critical problem any longer, although at scale an annotation system does require some significant…
Interactive Fiction - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
What counts as interactive fiction
Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games.[1] In common usage, the…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
To speak of medieval semiotics is not to speak of a precisely defined discipline
To speak of medieval semiotics is not to speak of a precisely defined discipline besides, and distinct from, other medieval arts and sciences; it is rather to speak of a complex field of more or less — mostly more — elaborate reflections on the concept of sign, its nature…
Open Text - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Open text (opera aperta)
In semiotic analysis, an open text is a text that allows multiple or mediated interpretation by the readers. In contrast, a closed text leads the reader to one intended interpretation. The concept of the open text comes from Umberto Eco's collection of essays The Role of the…
Taking Philosophical Dialogue Online
Interpretation (philosophy)
Here we expect students to grasp the meaning of philosophical concepts, propositions and texts. What constitutes successful interpretation is a contentious issue, but for the purposes of this study, I shall assume that there is agreement as to what would constitute an inept…
Analysis (philosophy)
Students must be able to: analyse a philosophical problem or position into its component parts and be able to tell how they are connected together; analyse an argument into premises and conclusions, and reconstruct the structure of the argument, filling in implicit premises…
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
Moretti's distant reading
The New Critics gave us close reading, the engagement with the minute verbal nuances of a text, and the mode still thrives—Helen Vendler’s studies of Shakespeare’s sonnets and Dickinson’s poems are classic contemporary examples. But as Moretti argues in “Conjectures on World…
A minimalist and a maximalist understanding of the digital humanities
Within this range of approaches, we can distinguish a minimalist and a maximalist understanding of digital humanities. On the one hand, it can be simply the application of computer technology to traditional scholarly functions, such as the editing of texts. An exemplary project…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
The ‘computational turn’ inevitably has its doubters
The ‘computational turn’ inevitably has its doubters. Cheeseman (2011) confessed being sceptical about the computability of most of the problems he dealt with as a literary translator, editor, critic, and cultural historian, while conceding that digitisation and computation…