Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 368.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) (18)
Subject: Re: 14.0362 terminological questions
[2] From: "J. Randolph Radney" <radney@twu.ca> (14)
Subject: primitives
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:49:44 +0100
From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 14.0362 terminological questions
Fotis,
Would a third term help?
Content modeling
Encoding
Markup
Markup would cover the actualization of encoding principles in an
instance. (aka as "tagging")
Encoding would cover working out the relationships between the various
elements, attributes, entities of a markup scheme.
Content modeling would cover the analysis of the document set and the
information needs of the end-users as well as the information
interchange environment.
It becomes interesting to have students generate a table that places these
three alongside the "format, structure, content" trio (see Colby and
Jackson _Using SGML_ (1996) p. 35 ff) and watch the dialogue and
discussion grow as they exchange the results and discover their own
understanding of form and the malleability of textual artefacts.
Francois
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:51:11 +0100
From: "J. Randolph Radney" <radney@twu.ca>
Subject: primitives
I wonder whether our search for "methodological primitives" might be helped
by more of a focus on what might be termed methodological gestalts. This
wondering also has reference to some messages that query the assumption of
circuitry as foundational to our human existence. What if we do not think
of things as built up from bits but rather instantiation of wholes?
In my own speciality, I approach linguistics with the understanding that
social interaction provides the entry point for investigation of language
behaviour. At a philosophical level, I operate under the assumption that
person represents an intersubjective interface with world via immediate
context. This may be quite commonplace in the present scholarly environs (I
feel very much the "junior" to the rest of you), but where it leads me is
much more in the direction of "top-down" processing, rather than
"bottom-up".
All the best to all of you on this fine Canadian Thanksgiving Day!
radney
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