Online Resources for the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
International Seminar   May 7-8, 2004

ABSTRACT. Markup and Text Representation.

The adequacy of a digital text representation is to a great extent dependent upon the properties of markup. Markup behaves like a kind of diacritical notation and it performs an essential linguistic function in the digital representation of the text. The linguistic status of markup is characterized by a constitutive structural ambiguity. Markup is both part of the text and it says something about it. Markup is to be seen as that part of the object language, which can be used as a metalanguge to describe itself. The ambivalence of markup can thus be turned to good account. It can provide a means to approach textual mobility and it can afford a formal representation of the phenomena of textual dynamics.

Biographical note

Dino Buzzetti teaches Medieval Philosophy at the University of Bologna. He has also given courses in document digitization and processing at the Faculty of Preservation of the Cultural Heritage. His current research interests are in: Digital textuality; Logic and metaphysics in later medieval thought.

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