Structured Data, Tagging, and XML

Adam CrymbleDigital Histories Workshop

Towards Artificial Intelligence

‘Robot’ by Christelle

• Structured Data

•Tagging

• XML

Structured Data

Taxonomy

Biologycorner.com

Free Tagging (Folksonomy)

“Romantical love painting photo” by Ruler Lord

Limited Vocabulary

“Galaxy Zoo”

XML (Extensible Markup Language)

<tag>Stuff that got tagged</tag>

Text to a Computer

01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101010 01110101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100111 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100111 00101110

Text to a Computer

01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101010 01110101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100111 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100111 00101110

Text to a Computer

01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101010 01110101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100111 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100111 00101110

Text to a Human

The man jumped over the green dog.

Text for Human and Computer

The <noun>man</noun> <verb>jumped</verb> over the green <noun>dog</noun>.

People who Love XML

Archaeology

Anthropology

Classics

History

Historians

Non-Historians

Literature

Linguistics

TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)

Project Tango.

Historian’s Example

“The Old Bailey Corpus” by Magnus Huber

Towards Artificial Intelligence

‘Robot’ by Christelle

• Structured Data

•Tagging

• XML