COCOA (digital humanities)

COCOA was an early piece of word processing software and associated file format for digital humanities, then known as humanities computing. It was approximately 4000 punched cards of FORTRAN and created in the late 1960s and early 1970s at University College London and the Atlas Computer Laboratory. Functionality included word-counting and concordance building.[1][2][3][4]

Oxford Concordance Program

The Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) format was a direct descendent of COCOA developed at Oxford University. The Oxford Text Archive holds items in this format.[5]

Later developments

The COCOA file format bears at least a passing similarity to the later markup languages such as SGML and XML. A noticeable difference with its successors is that COCOA tags are flat and not tree structured. In that format, every information type and value encoded by a tag should be considered true until the same tag changes its value. Members of the Text Encoding Initiative community maintain legacy support for COCOA,[6][7] although most in-demand texts and corpora have already been migrated to more widely understand formats such as TEI XML[8]


References

  1. ↑ Paul E. Corcoran (November 1974). "COCOA: A FORTRAN Program for Concordance and Word-count Processing of Natural Language Texts". Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation. Springer-Verlag. 6 (6): 566. doi:10.3758/BF03201351.
  2. ↑ Colin Day and Ian Marriott (February 1976). "Software Reviews: COCOA: A Word Count and Concordance Generator". Computers and the Humanities. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 10 (1): 56. doi:10.1007/BF02399143.
  3. ↑ D. B. Russell (1965). "COCOA - A Word Count and Concordance Generator". Associates Technology Literature Applications Society. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Susan Hockey. "The History of Humanities Computing". University of Illinois. Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Concordia discordantium canonum ac primum de iure naturae et constitutionis". University of Oxford Text Archive. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  6. ↑ James Cummings, Sebastian Rahtz (2010). "This script is used to convert COCOA to TEI" (XSL). Oxford University. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  7. ↑ https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets/tree/master/cocoa
  8. ↑ http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/CoRD/corpora/HelsinkiCorpus/HC_XML.html
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