This article discusses a set of prototypes currently being designed and created by the Interface ... more This article discusses a set of prototypes currently being designed and created by the Interface Design team of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project. These prototypes attempt to supplement the user experience in reading digital scholarly editions, by supporting a set of tasks that are straightforward in a digital environment but in a print edition would be sufficiently more difficult as to be prohibitive. We therefore offer these experimental prototypes as a collection of new affordances for the scholarly edition, although they may reasonably be extended, with some variation, to other kinds of digital text.
Background: The history of reading, writing, and the dissemination of technology is one of epocha... more Background: The history of reading, writing, and the dissemination of technology is one of epochal change, and each transition – indeed the history of the book – is marked by hybridity. In the mature years of print, publishers, librarians, and scholars had clearly defined and segregated roles. In the digital realm, the boundaries have broken down. Just now we have hybridity of form and of roles in the implementation of new reading environments.Analysis: This article provides: 1) an overview of e-reading environments; 2) a survey of the Dynamic Table of Contexts interface; and 3) a report on the hybrid production process of a particular online text, Regenerations.Conclusion and implications: Regenerations could only have emerged from a collaboration among a digital infrastructure project, research project, university press, and digital humanities tool suite.
Early modern cabinets of curiosities (precursors of the modern museum) were sites for collecting ... more Early modern cabinets of curiosities (precursors of the modern museum) were sites for collecting and generating object-centred knowledge in the early days of empiricism, but they were equally dependent on text-based ways of knowing and disseminating knowledge. These collections thus provide an important historical point of reference for thinking about the possibilities of new knowledge environments for representing cultural heritage objects on the Web, which presents new possibilities for textual and visual representation. After elaborating the historical context of early modern collections as knowledge environments, this paper concludes with some principles for representing cultural heritage objects to support scholarship in the humanities.
In this panel, we report on our year 4 work in the Interface Design (ID) research team of the Imp... more In this panel, we report on our year 4 work in the Interface Design (ID) research team of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project. INKE is a 7-year major collaborative research initiative (MCRI) project funded in Canada by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). INKE is led by Ray Siemens at the University of Victoria, and includes dozens of researchers worldwide. Each year, we have had a different focus for our work. The schedule is as follows: Year 1: interdisciplinary citations Year 2: corpora Years 3 and 4: the scholarly edition Year 5: the monograph and journal Year 6: born-digital literature Year 7: wrap-up and dissemination For the first three years of the project, our focus has been on a wide range of experimental prototypes. Beginning in year 4, we attempted to aggregate these prototypes into a smaller set of “new knowledge environments”, where the goal is no longer to have a single piece of functionality that we can experiment with, ...
Recent developments in scholarly publication and the new directions being pursued in both humanit... more Recent developments in scholarly publication and the new directions being pursued in both humanities departments and libraries in the production of digital content provide opportunity for scholars and libraries to explore new models for working together to produce and disseminate scholarly materials. We offer as a first step toward a model for publication the case of Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (OSTMAR), a hybrid form of publication that leverages the university library infrastructure to create a platform for the publication of scholarly primary materials, an area of publication formerly reserved for the commercial press. This model is dependent on close collaboration between scholar and librarian, the nuances of which are outlined in this paper.
This paper presents a brief account of the form and function of the “table of contents” to establ... more This paper presents a brief account of the form and function of the “table of contents” to establish a theoretical framework for understanding the form and function of this common element of book architecture with the aim of informing the development of a dynamic table of contexts for books and reading in the digital medium. This paper will thus theorize the relationship between textual studies and interface design in INKE, a project for Implementing New Knowledge Environments.
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada, 1969
Bath, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Research Team* A recent survey funde... more Bath, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Research Team* A recent survey funded by the Pew Internet project found that 63 percent of American adults now access the Internet through a mobile device like a cell phone, laptop, e-reader, or tablet. The same survey found that "Groups that have traditionally been on the other side of the digital divide in basic internet access are using wireless connections to go online." 1 This trend is even more evident in the developing world. For instance, in Africa access to wired Internet connections has hardly improved over the last five years (0.1 broadband subscriptions per one hundred people in 2009; 0.3 in 2012), while mobile broadband subscriptions have grown from zero in 2009 to 10.9 per one hundred people in 2013. 2 Therefore, the use of smart phones for reading is 1* Brent Nelson is associate professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan where he is also director of the Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Program. His work on INKE has focused on the study of the history of reading technology to inform the design of new reading environments. Robert Imes is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Saskatchewan. Supported by a fellowship from the Bibliographical Society of America, his current research examines early modern English chorography and cartography. Jon Bath is director of the Humanities and Fine Arts Digital Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, where he also teaches bibliography and book arts. He is the co-lead of the INKE Modeling and Prototyping team. Funded by the SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program, INKE is a collaborative group of researchers working with other organizations and partners to explore the digital humanities, electronic scholarly communication, and the affordances of electronic text. For more information and a full list of researchers see "INKE: Implementing New Knowledge Environments," last updated 13
Networked knowledge has long been an elusive desideratum of the digital humanities. This article ... more Networked knowledge has long been an elusive desideratum of the digital humanities. This article argues the desirability and feasibility of linking person-entity references between a well defined and closely related set of digital projects related to early modern knowledge networks.
This article discusses a set of prototypes currently being designed and created by the Interface ... more This article discusses a set of prototypes currently being designed and created by the Interface Design team of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project. These prototypes attempt to supplement the user experience in reading digital scholarly editions, by supporting a set of tasks that are straightforward in a digital environment but in a print edition would be sufficiently more difficult as to be prohibitive. We therefore offer these experimental prototypes as a collection of new affordances for the scholarly edition, although they may reasonably be extended, with some variation, to other kinds of digital text.
Background: The history of reading, writing, and the dissemination of technology is one of epocha... more Background: The history of reading, writing, and the dissemination of technology is one of epochal change, and each transition – indeed the history of the book – is marked by hybridity. In the mature years of print, publishers, librarians, and scholars had clearly defined and segregated roles. In the digital realm, the boundaries have broken down. Just now we have hybridity of form and of roles in the implementation of new reading environments.Analysis: This article provides: 1) an overview of e-reading environments; 2) a survey of the Dynamic Table of Contexts interface; and 3) a report on the hybrid production process of a particular online text, Regenerations.Conclusion and implications: Regenerations could only have emerged from a collaboration among a digital infrastructure project, research project, university press, and digital humanities tool suite.
Early modern cabinets of curiosities (precursors of the modern museum) were sites for collecting ... more Early modern cabinets of curiosities (precursors of the modern museum) were sites for collecting and generating object-centred knowledge in the early days of empiricism, but they were equally dependent on text-based ways of knowing and disseminating knowledge. These collections thus provide an important historical point of reference for thinking about the possibilities of new knowledge environments for representing cultural heritage objects on the Web, which presents new possibilities for textual and visual representation. After elaborating the historical context of early modern collections as knowledge environments, this paper concludes with some principles for representing cultural heritage objects to support scholarship in the humanities.
In this panel, we report on our year 4 work in the Interface Design (ID) research team of the Imp... more In this panel, we report on our year 4 work in the Interface Design (ID) research team of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project. INKE is a 7-year major collaborative research initiative (MCRI) project funded in Canada by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). INKE is led by Ray Siemens at the University of Victoria, and includes dozens of researchers worldwide. Each year, we have had a different focus for our work. The schedule is as follows: Year 1: interdisciplinary citations Year 2: corpora Years 3 and 4: the scholarly edition Year 5: the monograph and journal Year 6: born-digital literature Year 7: wrap-up and dissemination For the first three years of the project, our focus has been on a wide range of experimental prototypes. Beginning in year 4, we attempted to aggregate these prototypes into a smaller set of “new knowledge environments”, where the goal is no longer to have a single piece of functionality that we can experiment with, ...
Recent developments in scholarly publication and the new directions being pursued in both humanit... more Recent developments in scholarly publication and the new directions being pursued in both humanities departments and libraries in the production of digital content provide opportunity for scholars and libraries to explore new models for working together to produce and disseminate scholarly materials. We offer as a first step toward a model for publication the case of Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (OSTMAR), a hybrid form of publication that leverages the university library infrastructure to create a platform for the publication of scholarly primary materials, an area of publication formerly reserved for the commercial press. This model is dependent on close collaboration between scholar and librarian, the nuances of which are outlined in this paper.
This paper presents a brief account of the form and function of the “table of contents” to establ... more This paper presents a brief account of the form and function of the “table of contents” to establish a theoretical framework for understanding the form and function of this common element of book architecture with the aim of informing the development of a dynamic table of contexts for books and reading in the digital medium. This paper will thus theorize the relationship between textual studies and interface design in INKE, a project for Implementing New Knowledge Environments.
Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada, 1969
Bath, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Research Team* A recent survey funde... more Bath, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Research Team* A recent survey funded by the Pew Internet project found that 63 percent of American adults now access the Internet through a mobile device like a cell phone, laptop, e-reader, or tablet. The same survey found that "Groups that have traditionally been on the other side of the digital divide in basic internet access are using wireless connections to go online." 1 This trend is even more evident in the developing world. For instance, in Africa access to wired Internet connections has hardly improved over the last five years (0.1 broadband subscriptions per one hundred people in 2009; 0.3 in 2012), while mobile broadband subscriptions have grown from zero in 2009 to 10.9 per one hundred people in 2013. 2 Therefore, the use of smart phones for reading is 1* Brent Nelson is associate professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan where he is also director of the Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Program. His work on INKE has focused on the study of the history of reading technology to inform the design of new reading environments. Robert Imes is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Saskatchewan. Supported by a fellowship from the Bibliographical Society of America, his current research examines early modern English chorography and cartography. Jon Bath is director of the Humanities and Fine Arts Digital Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, where he also teaches bibliography and book arts. He is the co-lead of the INKE Modeling and Prototyping team. Funded by the SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program, INKE is a collaborative group of researchers working with other organizations and partners to explore the digital humanities, electronic scholarly communication, and the affordances of electronic text. For more information and a full list of researchers see "INKE: Implementing New Knowledge Environments," last updated 13
Networked knowledge has long been an elusive desideratum of the digital humanities. This article ... more Networked knowledge has long been an elusive desideratum of the digital humanities. This article argues the desirability and feasibility of linking person-entity references between a well defined and closely related set of digital projects related to early modern knowledge networks.
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