Particularly for the novice practitioner, good data modelling is something to be done iteratively, interrogating and refining the model through a dialogue with both the source material and the operational context of tools.Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis "Data modeling in a digital humanities context: an introduction" in The Shape of Data in Digital Humanities: Modelling Texts and Text-Based Resources
George Miller. 30 (some odd) poems. Toronto: Three Tree Press, 1977.
Conclusion to "Gambit"
[…]A male version of "The Lady of Shallot" and its "mirror crack'd from side to side"?
He practised madness
in front of his mirror
and when the mirror broke
he found he had perfected it.
A friend sent a clipping in the mail of a Toronto Star article from the Endnotes section (Back stories, final thoughts, weird findings) D12 (Sunday, February 25, 2007). Christian Cotroneo's article on Donald Crowdis who at the age of 93 is writing about his approaching demise on a blog concludes with a consideration of habit
"Habit is such a thing. . ." he says, "She's not there. I don't expect her to come back. [She is is 92 years old and his wife and is in a nursing home. They have been married for some 70 years.] Am I used to it? No."
Technological change is consistently and emphatically represented in the form of new artefacts or objects, rather than practices, arrangements and ensembles.
