Critical Paths into DH : Willard McCarty and The Women Writers’ Project

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McCarty, Willard. (2005). Humanities Computing. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

The Women Writers Project. http://www.wwp.brown.edu/

Unsworth, John. Knowledge Representation in the Humanities Computinghttp://people.brandeis.edu/~unsworth/KR/KRinHC.html.

The concept of modeling as proposed by Willard McCarty in his book Humanities Computing was at the same time useful and very intriguing as I was getting more interested in transformative interventions that Digital Humanities or Digital Studies allow.

Women Writers Project archive is an example of applying a TEI model on literary works written by women writers and the opportunities that this model offers for representing, understanding, reading, and preserving the works of women.