Representing historical books as digital objects

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Historical Books as Digital Objects

The Archaeology of a Book

Hannah Alpert-Abrams Comparative Literature - LLILAS Benson

UT Austin

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1. Framing Textual Objects

2. The Archaeology of a Book

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Aduertencias | Advertencias

Juan Baptista | Juan Bautista | Ioan Bautista

Melchor Ocharte | L. Figueroa Ocharte | Cornelio Adrián Cesar

Tlatelolco | México | Mexico City

1599 |1600 | 1601 | 1603

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*Jeffrey Todd Knight, Bound to Read

The early colonial book is not a coherent atomic unit*

Malleability

HistoricityThe early colonial book is not a static historical object

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

1. Framing Textual Objects

2. The Archaeology of a Book

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Scalar

“To formulate new ways of working with digitized archival materials within the humanities and to continue to model emerging genres of digital scholarly

publishing.”

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Malleability

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Malleability

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Malleability

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Malleability

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Historicity

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Historicity

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Historicity

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Historicity

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Historicity

Hannah Alpert-Abrams http://scalar.usc.edu/works/advertencias/ Historical books as digital objects

Digital objects extend the scope of the

documentary edition.