Our team met over the weekend on Sunday, February 27th, to work out our markup system. We started at 3:30 pm by making a Google Doc and brainstorming our ideas for important characteristics to tag. We had the Shakespearean insults team's markup methods document in mind during our meeting, so we also agreed upon definitions for "pain" and for "gendered pain," and included those in our Google Doc.
As we continued discussing, we were able to narrow down the elements and attributes that we thought would be most important to focus on, since our project is about gendered pain. However, we found that talking about elements and attributes was confusing without a visual guide, so Richa started writing a node diagram on a whiteboard. As we wrote on the whiteboard, we continued discussing and adjusting our plans, and once everything was settled, we took pictures of what we wrote on the whiteboard. We transferred this information to our Google Doc, and Alexis pushed it to GitHub in the form of a markdown file. Richa also recreated the whiteboard diagram and notes on her iPad, and uploaded that as a JPG file to GitHub, since she thought it would be easier if we still had our visual guide.
To sum up these initial plans for our tagging system, we wanted to have <pain> as our main element, and then we would have three elements under it, and of those, the element marking the receiver of pain was the only one that would be absolutely required. Several of the attributes of the <rec> element would be boolean, and we noted that we want to frame our question and analysis with the concept of emergence theory. We will mention emergence theory on our website, and possibly some other theories as well.
So, between Sunday and Thursday, we worked on marking up our assigned plays, using this initial markup system. However, many of us did not get very far in markup, partially because we still weren't sure about some aspects of the tagging system. Richa got quite far, but she did encounter issues while doing it. Dr. Birnbaum assisted us by converting lines to paragraphs in the file for Medea, and Caroline added a "gitignore" file to the repository. Richa also started writing a Relax NG schema, but did not finish.
We had our weekly project meeting on Thursday, March 3rd. Caroline updated us on some of the changes that had been made to the repository, and we discussed our tagging system, which we had some confusions and difficulties with. Caroline said that she believed that it would be easier and less complicated if our tagging system simply consisted of multiple attributes within empty <pain> elements, and we came to an agreement that this is the markup system that we will be proceeding with.
Caroline also suggested to us that we should change the README file now that we have a better idea of our tagging system and our specific research question(s), so that is something we need to do. Additionally, we need to update our markdown file for our tagging system, because we changed it. Because we had a late start to this project, our midterm due date has been pushed back a week, and our plans for it are for everyone to finish marking up their respective plays using this current tagging system, and to make progress on writing the schema. Richa, Vidya, and Cherina are planning to meet on Zoom on Tuesday, March 8th to work out the schema.
Our team met over the weekend on Sunday, February 27th, to work out our markup system. We started at 3:30 pm by making a Google Doc and brainstorming our ideas for important characteristics to tag. We had the Shakespearean insults team's markup methods document in mind during our meeting, so we also agreed upon definitions for "pain" and for "gendered pain," and included those in our Google Doc.
As we continued discussing, we were able to narrow down the elements and attributes that we thought would be most important to focus on, since our project is about gendered pain. However, we found that talking about elements and attributes was confusing without a visual guide, so Richa started writing a node diagram on a whiteboard. As we wrote on the whiteboard, we continued discussing and adjusting our plans, and once everything was settled, we took pictures of what we wrote on the whiteboard. We transferred this information to our Google Doc, and Alexis pushed it to GitHub in the form of a markdown file. Richa also recreated the whiteboard diagram and notes on her iPad, and uploaded that as a JPG file to GitHub, since she thought it would be easier if we still had our visual guide.
To sum up these initial plans for our tagging system, we wanted to have
<pain>as our main element, and then we would have three elements under it, and of those, the element marking the receiver of pain was the only one that would be absolutely required. Several of the attributes of the<rec>element would be boolean, and we noted that we want to frame our question and analysis with the concept of emergence theory. We will mention emergence theory on our website, and possibly some other theories as well.So, between Sunday and Thursday, we worked on marking up our assigned plays, using this initial markup system. However, many of us did not get very far in markup, partially because we still weren't sure about some aspects of the tagging system. Richa got quite far, but she did encounter issues while doing it. Dr. Birnbaum assisted us by converting lines to paragraphs in the file for Medea, and Caroline added a "gitignore" file to the repository. Richa also started writing a Relax NG schema, but did not finish.
We had our weekly project meeting on Thursday, March 3rd. Caroline updated us on some of the changes that had been made to the repository, and we discussed our tagging system, which we had some confusions and difficulties with. Caroline said that she believed that it would be easier and less complicated if our tagging system simply consisted of multiple attributes within empty
<pain>elements, and we came to an agreement that this is the markup system that we will be proceeding with.Caroline also suggested to us that we should change the README file now that we have a better idea of our tagging system and our specific research question(s), so that is something we need to do. Additionally, we need to update our markdown file for our tagging system, because we changed it. Because we had a late start to this project, our midterm due date has been pushed back a week, and our plans for it are for everyone to finish marking up their respective plays using this current tagging system, and to make progress on writing the schema. Richa, Vidya, and Cherina are planning to meet on Zoom on Tuesday, March 8th to work out the schema.