Monday, May 19, 2003
Working on some hypertext research tonight. I'm interested in the future of books as they're converted to digital text. There are possibilities here to make books become more than words printed on a page. This is antithetical to most book lovers, but we need to at least face this possibility, decide if it would be an improvement over current books, and then move forward. Here are some links for what I found tonight:
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/melville - The Melville project at the Univ. of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). Check out the version of Moby Dick's Chapter 55. Melville references various whale or mythology illustrations at the beginning of this chapter. The web page links to the actual illustrations to give the reader a fuller understanding of the text. This is one difference between a text printed as a book and a text printed as a web page.
Voice of the Shuttle - A "web site for Humanities research" from UC - Santa Barbara.
SHARP- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Speech of Jonathan Rose, Drew University, accepting the APHA Institutional Award for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP), January 27, 2001
Book History Journal Online - online table of contents for the publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
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http://www.iath.virginia.edu/melville - The Melville project at the Univ. of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). Check out the version of Moby Dick's Chapter 55. Melville references various whale or mythology illustrations at the beginning of this chapter. The web page links to the actual illustrations to give the reader a fuller understanding of the text. This is one difference between a text printed as a book and a text printed as a web page.
Voice of the Shuttle - A "web site for Humanities research" from UC - Santa Barbara.
SHARP- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Speech of Jonathan Rose, Drew University, accepting the APHA Institutional Award for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP), January 27, 2001
Book History Journal Online - online table of contents for the publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
