[-empyre-] Engineering the University : Week 03 : Bettivia and Flanders

[Hamilton, Kevin]

Hi Ben

I'm not fluent in this area, but here are some links to get you started:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_5218



And for some discussion on the matter:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-contacts-coord/2010JulSep/0010.h
tml


My encounter of this was in learning about Text Encoding for literatures,
a field in which Julia is a leader:

http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml


Hope that points in some helpful directions.

Kevin

On 3/20/15 6:22 PM, "B. Bogart" <ben at ekran.org> wrote:

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>I'd like to here more about this issue of representing gender. We did
>touch on it last week, but it felt like it never really got fleshed out.
>How is gender represented in standardized markup language?
>
>On 15-03-18 07:33 PM, Hamilton, Kevin wrote:
>> Julia wouldn't remember me I'm sure, but I had the pleasure of taking a
>> TEI workshop from her once, in my first (and last) introduction to the
>> complexities of standardized markup language for scholarly texts. I
>> remember hearing her and the other workshop leader talking about the
>> question of gender, for example, and what fields might exist in a
>> standardized markup language for indicating the gender of a character
>>in a
>> narrative, etc. What a rich opening for newbies like me, to see where
>> matters of gender get literally encoded in machine-readable language,
>>but
>> also debated through those looking to set standards, arbitrate them,
>> comment on them, etc. (Sorry for the broad brush Julia, but something
>> stuck in there for me, even if it wasn't what was really going on : )
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