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ID Conference call for papers

Tianyi — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:04:22 +0000

INKE ID Conference 2014 will be held in September 18th to 20th at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Institute of Design in Chicago, USA, with the topic “Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0″. This conference will focus on some of the experimental human-computer interfaces that have been designed and, in some cases, prototyped for use with digital texts, images, and other media.

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INKE ID at Whistler

Tianyi — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:49:30 +0000

Several of the INKE ID team members were participants in the INKE gathering at Whistler (Feb 5-6, 2014), where researchers and industry partners got together to talk about mutual interests around new knowledge environments. One of the flash talks (by Stan Ruecker) provided examples of 45-second videos that can be used to promote research.Here is the YouTube channel and also the videos themselves: Design Research. Including the ones that are not yet up on YouTube:Research Videos.

ID team presents at DH 2013

Tianyi — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:47:40 +0000

INKE ID members attended the annual DH conference, held this year in Lincoln, NE (USA), on July 16-19, 2013. Members presented a panel entitled “The Design of New Knowledge Environments,” speaking about year four projects of the ID team. Stan Ruecker introduced the INKE project and the design of new knowledge environment, followed by papers present by ID group members.

Dynamic Table of Contexts

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

Reading Skins: Voyant and Tool Aggregation

Authors: Geoffrey Rockwell (speaker), Stéfan Sinclair, and the INKE Research Group

The Tablet as a New Medium for Scholarly Editions

Authors: Atefeh Mohseni, Daniel Sondheim, Milena Radzikowska (speaker), Luciano Frizzera, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, and the INKE Research Group

Multi-Touch Surface as a Social Reading Environment for Variorum Edition

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

Video demo:

Managing the Editorial Process: A Study of Workflow

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

ID team presents at CSDH/SCHN 2013

Tianyi — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:41:11 +0000

INKE ID members attended the annual CSDH/SCHN conference at Congress 2013 of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference was held in Victoria, BC, on June 02-05. Members presented a panel entitled “Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me: Restoring materiality to the reader,” speaking about year four projects of the ID team. Led by an introduction about interface to touch, from Stan Ruecker and Geoffrey Rockwell, here are the titles of each paper that ID group presented:

1. The Unbearable Lightness of eReaders

Authors: Jennifer Windsor (speaker), Stan Ruecker, Brent Nelson, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair and the INKE Research Group

2. Tangible Workflows: Feeling the flow of information

Authors: Tianyi Li (speaker), Luciano Frizzera, Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group

Video demo:

3. Manipulating Multiple Editions with the Multi-touch Variorum (MtV) Project

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

4. In Touch with E-Books

Authors: Atefeh Mohseni, Milena Radzikowska (speaker), Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group

5. Touching the Physical World Through Mobile Pixels

Authors: Luciano Frizzera (speaker), Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group

Daniel Sondheim presents at Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century

Dan — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:28:43 +0000

Daniel Sondheim presented a paper the INKE Textual Studies team’s conference Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century, in Victoria, BC. The paper was written with the help of Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, Mihaela Ilovan, Luciano Frizzera, and Jennifer Windsor, and was entitled “From Print to the Web and Back: The Current State of Scholarly Editions.”

Abstract: “The change from paper-based text to electronic text is one of those elementary shifts like the change from manuscript to print that is so revolutionary we can only glimpse at this point what it entails.” (Jerome McGann, The Rationale of Hypertext. p. 28)

The interactions between digital scholarly editions and print-based ones have become increasingly complex over the past 15-20 years. Jerome McGann, for example, notes as early as 1996 that “When we use books to study books… the scale of the tools seriously limits the possible results…” (McGann 12). Peter Shillingsburg echoes this sentiment a decade later, stating that “electronic scholarly editions… offer to both editors and edition users considerably more than was possible in print editions” (Shillingsburg 97). Though this opinion is shared by most scholars producing digital editions, a number have also published printed versions after launching digital versions, including McGann, who has argued for the superiority of digital editions.

To address the apparent contradiction between theoretical discourse and actual practice, we are analyzing a selection of scholarly editions that have been implemented in both digital and printed environments by the same editor(s). By comparing editorial decisions, we will identify the structures and mechanisms that are either shared or unique in each. We will provide an evaluation of the affordances available in each case and determine the extent to which works in each medium reference their equivalents in the other medium. We are interested in the ways that digital editions have deviated from printed editions and the ways that printed editions that were published after their digital counterparts have been influenced by the digital design. This latter phenomenon has been noted by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, when they state that “older media can also remediate newer ones” (Bolter & Grusin 55). Specific scholarly editions that we intend to focus on include Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Codex Sinaiticus.

This study comprises part of our overall project to develop and experiment with innovative methodologies for studying interface design. Results will be useful both for developing new digital interfaces and for understanding the print and digital dynamics within scholarly edition publishing.

Works cited:

Bolter, J. David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. Print.

McGann, Jerome. “The Rationale of Hyper Text.” Text 9 (1996): 11-32. Print.

Shillingsburg, Peter L. From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Print.

ID team presents at SDH/SEMI

Dan — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:16:16 +0000

INKE ID members attended the annual SDH/SEMI conference at Congress 2012 of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference was held in Waterloo, Ontario, on May 28-30. Members presented a panel entitled “Interface to Interface Research,” speaking about year three projects of the ID team. Introductions and conclusions were given by Stan Ruecker, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Milena Radzikowska; Luciano Frizzera spoke about a workflow interface that ID is developing for editorial processes; Jennifer Windsor analyzed and explained the design of scholarly e-readers; Daniel Sondheim compared scholarly editions in print and on the Web; and Geoffrey Rockwell presented RIPr, ID’s rich prospect browser for studying interface design. In another session, Mihaela Ilovan presented a paper on CiteLens, a tool for exploring humanist citation practices by means of visualizations. SDH/SEMI was very well attended this year, and all of the talks went well.

Geoffrey Rockwell at Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Text and Beyond

Dan — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:48:16 +0000

Geoffrey Rockwell gave a presentation on November 18th entitled “The Face of the Scholarly Corpus and Edition” at the conference “Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Text and Beyond.” The conference was held at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.

The presentation explored ways that scholarly work can be studied across print and digital epochs. Three frameworks to aid in this study were proposed: one of various types of corpora, one of interface features, and one for a diachronic study of interface.

Three handouts were developed for this talk, PDFs of which are given below.

Topology of Corpora and their Audiences

Framework of the Interface Features of Corpora

Diachronic View of Collection Interfaces

Stan Ruecker at Humanities Computing Research Colloquium

Dan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:15:51 +0000

Stan Ruecker gave a presentation today at the University of Alberta today as part of the Humanities Computing Research Colloquium series. It was entitled “The Visualization of Uncertainty in Time.”

Co-authors of the presentation included Carlos Fiorentino, Michael Burden, Omar Rodriquez, and Susan Brown. Ruecker presented various ways of visualizing time that avoid shortcomings of the standard timeline and its inherently positivist approach. These new visualizations serve to accommodate uncertainty that may arise due to factors such as conflicting accounts by different witnesses, complex recollections of a single witness, or alternative philosophical conceptions of time. Stan’s work was part of Johanna Drucker’s Temporal Modelling Project, and used data from Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. The talk was well-attended and well-received.

One of the designs presented by Stan

ID members at Digital Humanities 2011

Dan — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:02:10 +0000

A number of ID members attended Digital Humanities 2011, held at Stanford University from June 19th to the 22nd. They presented a panel called “The Interface of the Collection.” Geoffrey Rockwell introduced the panel, framing it in the context of the problem of information overload. He also presented a paper on “The corpus from print to the web,” in which he identified and compared various patterns of print and web corpora. Stan Ruecker gave a paper entitled “The Paper Drill,” in which he presented a prototype tool created by the INKE team for following citation trails through academic articles (see Fig. 1).

Fig. 1: The Paper Drill

He also gave a talk that had been co-authored by Milena Radzikowska, who was unable to attend, entitled “Structured Surfaces for JiTR,” which described the usefulness of structured surfaces in collection interfaces (see Fig. 2).

Fig. 2: A structured surface

Daniel Sondheim presented on “The citation from print to the web,” arguing that citations hold collections together, and proposing a topology of citation design patterns. Mihaela Ilovan gave a talk entitled “Diachronic view on digital collections interfaces,” in which she explained the benefits of studying interface evolution over time.

In addition to the talks, ID members were involved in giving two workshops on “Visualization for Literary History” and “Text Analysis with Voyeur.” The former involved explanations and demonstrations of a number of tools including Voyeur, Mandala, Orlando Mandala, OVis, Breadboard, and Degrees of Separation. It was given by Stan Ruecker, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair, Susan Brown, and Daniel Sondheim. The latter was specifically about Voyeur, and was given by Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell.

RUECKER AT TEDX

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:57:18 +0000

Stan Ruecker of INKE ID gave a talk at the TEDx Juan de Fuca on the Future of Reading.