The inadequacy of embedded markup for cultural heritage texts.
Embedded generalized markup, as applied by digital humanists to the recording and studying of our textual cultural heritage, suffers from a number of serious technical drawbacks. As a result of its evolution from early printer control languages, generalized markup can only express a document’s ‘logi...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 337 - 357 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2010
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