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Mah, Carole; Flanders, Julia; Lavagnino, John – Computers and the Humanities, 1997
Presents two groups of text encoding problems encountered by the Brown University Women Writers Project while using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to create a database of book transcriptions: dual emendation and correction, and multiple hierarchies. Offers several possible approaches to these encoding problems and analyzes the issues…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer Uses in Education, Data Collection, Data Conversion
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Cory, Kenneth A. – Computers and the Humanities, 1997
Contends that large databases contain hidden knowledge, or literature that is logically linked but not bibliographically linked, that contains academically interesting commonalities not retrievable by normal searching methods. Based on search methods for discovering previously unknown causes of medical syndromes, a method for discovering new…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Databases, Humanities