Dr. Metablog

Dr. Metablog is the nom de blague of Vivian de St. Vrain, the pen name of a resident of the mountain west who writes about language, books, politics, or whatever else comes to mind. Under the name Otto Onions (Oh NIGH uns), Vivian de St. Vrain is the author of “The Big Book of False Etymologies” (Oxford, 1978) and, writing as Amber Feldhammer, is editor of the classic anthology of confessional poetry, “My Underwear” (Virago, 1997).

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Why an Old Humanist Sometimes Feels That the World Has Changed

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Here's the description of a project posted on a literary website by (I'm guessing) a young Shakespeare scholar: "I want to create a comprehensive XML schema for Shakespeare's plays, and then apply the schema in an online prototype. The schema will conform to TEI standards where possible and appropriate, and exceed them where necessary. Creating a DTD will not give us the versatility we want, so we have moved to a schema instead."

"XML schema?"  "TEI standards?"  "DTD?"  What language are we speaking? 

One response to “Why an Old Humanist Sometimes Feels That the World Has Changed”

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    Sean Robertson

    Welcome to the digital revolution! He’s basically talking about posting Shakespears works (or at least data about it) online in a format flexible enough to be usable to a wide variety of other software. XML is still something of an emerging technology, but a project like that could be quite usefull at some point in the not-so-distant future.
    BTW, your “Subscribe to this blog’s feed” link is an example of XML. That allows people to access your blog on all kinds of devices not necessarily even limited to computers (i.e., you can access a blog feed using a PDA). It also allows other web sites to syndicate your content in near real time. Pretty nifty stuff. 😉

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