Looking at texts on the web from the broader perspective of connecting dots, people and data. This slidedeck is part of the lesson: https://goo.gl/xVLtWX

1. TEXT ON THE
WEB

2. 04 TEXT ON THE
WEB
ETYMOLOGICAL
NOTES
HISTORICAL
NOTES
CURRENT STATE

3. Text on the Web
Etymology insights Historical
Perspective
Current
State
texts as nets plastic texts
on the web
a collaborative tool
for connecting
What will the lecture cover?

4. texō xuī, xtus, ere
to weave; to join, fit
together, plait, braid,
interweave, construct,
make, fabricate, build
LATIN ORIGINS OF THE WORD
TEXT
Source: Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis http://goo.gl/RFgrka

5. Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Weaving the Web, p. 123
Web of People
The Web is more a social creation than a technical one.
I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and
not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the web is to support an
improve our weblike existence in the world.

6. It is not a technical book. (If you want the technical details, check
out the W3C web site!). It does mention a little about how
technologies you may have heard of - like XML - fit in to the past,
present and future, but only in the course of charting the course for
the Web from the initial dream - still largely unfulfilled - to the next
technical and social revolution."

7. WEB AND TEXT FORMAL SIMLIARITIES
DECENTRALIZED
FOSTERING
EXCHANGE
OPEN TO NEW
ELEMENTS

8. WEB AND TEXT FUNCTIONAL SIMLIARITIES
COLLABORATE
CO-EXISTCONNECT

9. weblike structures

10. MEANING TRANSFER

11. Storing, accessing
information

12. Text Transformations

13. text
Search Engines
Boolean Search
The Beauty and the Beast

14. Keyword Stuffing

15. Fakes

16. Why these weren't meant to last?
Reason 1: The need for
narratives
Reason 2: The expanding
Interconnectedness
Reason 3: Really pragmatic
and not very poetic

17. The need for narrative

18. social media (Web 2.0)Global Communication tools
in the hands of individuals
Growing transparency
The expanding Interconnectedness

19. Really pragmatic and not very poetic
vs.

20. Scaling knowledge with the help of machines

21. Enter the Semantic Web

22. what's next?
Lecture: Introduction to the Semantic web

23. A reminder
Please, check the PDF, included as a supplemental material
to this lecture
Highlights from this lecture (translated into practical steps) are
available in the document, included at the end of Text and Web
Metamorphoses section