Monthly Archives: February 2010

In my last blog entry I detailed the first two layers of a four-layer model for electronic editions and archives.  The final two layers are detailed below: Level 3: Interface layer While stacks of multimedia files and transcripts in open repositories would, in some ways, improve the current state of digital libraries, interfaces are required [...]

Perhaps the most iconic sort of project in the literary digital humanities is the electronic edition.  Unfortunately, these projects, which seek to preserve and provide access to important and endangered cultural artifacts, are, themselves, endangered.  Centuries of experimentation with the production and preservation of paper have generated physical artifacts that, although fragile, can be placed [...]

Last week, the TILE team held their six month project meeting in Bloomington, Indiana.  At this meeting we further refined the scope of the project and have agreed to deliver the following tools by July of 2010: A extension of the image markup features of the Ajax XML Encoder (AXE).  The extension will feature a [...]