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Working out the plot: the role of stories in social machines
Full text linkAlthough Social Machines do not have yet a formalized definition, some efforts have been made to characterize them from a “machinery” point of view. In this paper, we present a methodology by which we attempt to reveal the sociality of Social Machines; to do so, we adopt the analogy of stories. By assimilating a Social Machine to a story, we can identify the stories within and about that machine and how this storytelling perspective might reveal the sociality of Social Machines. After illustrating this storytelling approach with a few examples, we then propose three axes of inquiry to evaluate the health of a social machine: (1) assessment of the sociality of a Social Machine through evaluation of its storytelling potential and realization; (2) assessment of the sustainability of a Social Machine through evaluation of its reactivity and interactivity; and (3) assessment of emergence through evaluation of the collaboration between authors and of the distributed/mixed nature of authority
Archetypal Narratives in Social Machines: Approaching Sociality through Prosopography
No full textIntroducing Social Machines as web-enabled entities integrating social energies and computational powers into a sociotechnical system (whether purposeful or not) where social dynamics animate communities, this paper proposes a theoretical framework in which to observe them. Attempting to strike a balance between the roles of humans and nonhumans, and aware of the difficulties that this heterogeneity presents, we propose to approach the questions of capturing the social dynamics of a social machine through prosopography. Prosopography is a method, used in particular by historians, that allows to systematically study a collection of biographies, be they of persons, artefacts, infrastructures of groups thereof. Systematization is achieved through designing an appropriate questionnaire to gather homogeneous data across the biographies. Our questionnaire design relies on the identification of five archetypal elements in biographical narratives. Illustrating our method with three examples, we demonstrate how our archetypal narratives have the potential to describe at least aspects of the social dynamics in social machines
Supporting data for the Text Creation Partnership and EEBO-TCP site.
No full textThe Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) ran from 1999 as an innovative collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Michigan, funded by Jisc in the UK and by over 150 academic partner institutions worldwide. Its aim was to capture the earliest extant edition of every English-language work published during the first two centuries of printing in England, and to convert this material into fully-searchable texts. The EEBO-TCP corpus covers the period from 1473 to 1700 and is estimated to comprise more than two million pages and nearly a billion words. It represents a history of the printed word in England from the birth of the printing press to the reign of William and Mary, and it contains texts of incomparable significance for research across all academic disciplines, including literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science. Having previously been available only to academic institutions which subscribe to ProQuestâs Early English Books Online resource, over 25,000 texts from the first phase of EEBO-TCP were made freely available as open data in the public domain from January 2015
Searching the New Labyrinth: the Echoes of Mercutio’s Banter in Paul’s Cross Churchyard
Full text linkThis talk will examine one highly referential speech by Mercutio in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in order to bring forward certain heretofore hidden elements within the physical architecture and also the architecture of consciousness at St Paul's during the 1590s. It will focus on the bookselling district of Paul’s Cross Churchyard on the northeast side of the cathedral. To do this EEBO-TCP and other digital resources in various degrees of development will be assessed along with static, hard copy research. In Act II, scene IV, of Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio sardonically references six romantic heroines, who, he asserts, Romeo wishes to place his own love interest above.1 In each case, an EEBO-TCP search shows that the names of the mythological women Mercutio mentions had a comeuppance in then printed works during the 1590s. The title pages of these works and other records indicate that these texts were available from bookshops in Paul’s Cross Churchyard in the years subsequent to Romeo and Juliet. Instead of just being bawdy banter, Mercutio’s speech points to the print marketplace in the churchyard and shows how a Shakespearean play echoed stories and fashions that were popular, not in Verona, but in the City of London. Recently, the team at the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project has reconstructed much of St Paul’s cathedral during the early modern period. From this reconstruction and also the search capabilities of EEBO-TCP, we can now identify relationships between this area and the Shakespearean stage with far more precision than before. We still do not know precisely how books were retailed, how long they were held in stock, or how popular they actually were. Also certain significant full texts may not be available yet in a TCP search. These pitfalls noted, this talk will abide by the thesis that digital resources can bring us much closer to an understanding of a lost, physical world and also to human consciousness during the early modern period
Early Modern Texts: Digital Methods and Methodologies
No full textThe Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, based at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, presented a conference on early modern texts, with particular emphasis on digital research, and editing methods and methodologies in early modern studies
Early Modern Texts: Digital Methods and Methodologies
No full textThe Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, based at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, presented a conference on early modern texts, with particular emphasis on digital research, and editing methods and methodologies in early modern studies
"Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies"? The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012
No full textTo mark a decade of the Text Creation Partnership (TCP)'s work at the Bodleian Libraries, producing searchable, full-text transcriptions of works in Early English Books Online (EEBO), we are hosting a conference to reflect the various ways in which TCP texts are being used.Is EEBO-TCP revolutionizing research and teaching in early modern studies? What features would be desirable but are not yet available? What improvements could be made in the decade to come
“Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies”? The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012
No full textTo mark a decade of the Text Creation Partnership (TCP)’s work at the Bodleian Libraries, producing searchable, full-text transcriptions of works in Early English Books Online (EEBO), we are hosting a conference to reflect the various ways in which TCP texts are being used.Is EEBO-TCP revolutionizing research and teaching in early modern studies? What features would be desirable but are not yet available? What improvements could be made in the decade to come?</p
"a creature native and indued/ Unto that element"? Digitizing _Hamlet_: How to Start; Where to Stop
Full text linkConfronted with the task of publishing online 32 XML-encoded texts of Hamlet in quarto in the space of one year, the Shakespeare Quartos Archive (SQA) moved away from a traditional, editor-led approach to focus instead on end-users. This paper explores the process of the selection of and engagement with this audience, and assesses the effectiveness of this approach in terms of the digital editions, encoded to Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) p5 standard, and of the web interface the project created
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