INKE ID members have been studying the interface changes of the Perseus project for over a year. The Perseus project is a digital library of materials and resources from ancient Greece through modern America. Established in 1987, the website now assembles digital collections of primary and secondary materials. We have recorded every big change to the Perseus interface using wayback machine, and have made inferences about what caused the changes. Last Friday we had a collaborative meeting with the runners of Perseus, Gregory Crane and Lisa Cerrato, and discussed the basic situation and inferences of early Perseus interfaces. Now Perseus is facing a new period of connection between Tufts and Leipzig, so this is a good time to take a look back, summarize the project’s history, and rethink its current design.

The INKE ID panel submitted an abstract to DH 2013 and was accepted in early February. DH 2013 will be held in Nebraska in the summer. Stan Ruecker will introduce the INKE project and the design of new knowledge environment. Then the presentation will be ordered as below:

Designing the Interface Within the Interface: Legibility and Readability in the Dynamic Table of Contexts
Speaker: Jennifer Windsor

Authors: Jennifer Windsor, Susan Brown, Brent Nelson, Milena Radzikowska, Stéfan Sinclair, and the INKE Research Group

Reading Skins: Voyant and Tool Aggregation
Speaker:Geoffrey Rockwell

Authors: Stéfan Sinclair, and the INKE Research Group

The Tablet as a New Medium for Scholarly Editions
Speaker: Atefeh Mohseni

Authors: Atefeh Mohseni, Daniel Sondheim, Luciano Frizzera, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, and the INKE Research Group

Multi-Touch Surface as a Social Reading Environment for Variorum Edition
Speaker: Luciano Frizzera

Authors: Luciano Frizzera, Sarah Vela, Mihaela Ilovan, Piotr Michura, Daniel Sondheim, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, and the INKE Research Group

Managing the Editorial Process: A Study of Workflow
Speaker: Teresa Dobson

Authors: Teresa Dobson, Geoff Roeder, Ernesto Peña, Elena Dergacheva, Susan Brown, Brooke Heller, and the INKE Research Group

Recently an INKE Interface Design Panel proposal was accepted by CSDH 2013 with the title ‘Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me: Restoring materiality to the reader’. Led by an introduction about interface to touch, from Stan Ruecker and Geoffrey Rockwell, here are the titles of each paper that ID group members will present:

1. The Unbearable Lightness of eReaders – Jennifer Windsor,Stan Ruecker, Brent Nelson, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair and the INKE Research Group

2. Tangible Workflows: Feeling the flow of information – Tianyi Li, Luciano Frizzera, Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group

3. Manipulating Multiple Editions with the Multi-touch Variorum (MtV) Project – Sarah Vela, Luciano Frizzera, Mihaela Ilovan, Piotr Michura, Daniel Sondheim, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group

4. In Touch with E-Books – Atefeh Mohseni, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group

5. Touching the Physical World Through Mobile Pixels – Luciano Frizzera, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group