TY - JOUR
T1 - Agree to disagree
T2 - Modelling co-existing scholarly perspectives on literary text
AU - Bleeker, Elli
AU - Buitendijk, Bram
AU - Haentjens Dekker, Ronald
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - This essay addresses two open challenge in the domain of digital scholarly editing: (1) formally defining the meaning of markup, and (2) allowing the reuse and exchange of textual data through a distributed editorial workflow that allows the editing of texts from multiple, diverging yet co-existing perspectives. We argue that successfully addressing these issues would promote the distribution and exchange of scholarly knowledge, on a technical as well as a theoretical level. The essay introduces ongoing work on a new data model for text called 'TAG' (Text-as-Graph) and its reference implementation 'Alexandria'. The essay outlines how TAG, based on a hypergraph for text, can improve the modeling of complex literary texts, and how Alexandria supports the exchange of markup files in a way that sustains scholarly discourse. We discuss three components of TAG: first, the markup technology stack allows for the formal definition of the meaning of markup ('markup semantics'); secondly, users can add multiple layers of markup that each represent an alternative perspective on text; and finally the editorial workflow is set up in a git-like distributed version management system. As a result, the TAG model provides for the synthesis of dispersed scholarly practices and the advancement of academic discourse.
AB - This essay addresses two open challenge in the domain of digital scholarly editing: (1) formally defining the meaning of markup, and (2) allowing the reuse and exchange of textual data through a distributed editorial workflow that allows the editing of texts from multiple, diverging yet co-existing perspectives. We argue that successfully addressing these issues would promote the distribution and exchange of scholarly knowledge, on a technical as well as a theoretical level. The essay introduces ongoing work on a new data model for text called 'TAG' (Text-as-Graph) and its reference implementation 'Alexandria'. The essay outlines how TAG, based on a hypergraph for text, can improve the modeling of complex literary texts, and how Alexandria supports the exchange of markup files in a way that sustains scholarly discourse. We discuss three components of TAG: first, the markup technology stack allows for the formal definition of the meaning of markup ('markup semantics'); secondly, users can add multiple layers of markup that each represent an alternative perspective on text; and finally the editorial workflow is set up in a git-like distributed version management system. As a result, the TAG model provides for the synthesis of dispersed scholarly practices and the advancement of academic discourse.
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U2 - 10.1093/llc/fqz061
DO - 10.1093/llc/fqz061
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85083646038
SN - 2055-7671
VL - 34
SP - 844
EP - 854
JO - Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
JF - Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
IS - 4
ER -