The Provision of Digital Apparatus for Use in Experimental Interfaces
Date
2014-12-17
Authors
Ruecker, Stan
Sinclair, Stéfan
Dobson, Teresa
Rockwell, Geoffrey
Radzikowska, Milena
INKE Research Group
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Publisher
Scholarly and Research Communication
Abstract
In this article, we discuss the various ways in which the experiments we have been doing within the INKE Interface Design team and elsewhere are predicated on the availability of “digital apparatus” – various forms of metadata that can be made consistently available. Tese include structural, procedural, and semantic markup, digital indexes, textual variants, annotations, regularized citations, and taxonomies of references, to name a few. While some affordances are agnostic to the very existence of metadata, in some crucial instances the metadata is essential. The question we hope to address in these cases is the extent to which the new affordances are actually of sufficient potential benefit to the community to warrant being produced and maintained.
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Keywords
INKE, Digital texts, Human-computer interaction, HCI, Digital humanities, Humanities computing
Citation
Ruecker, Stan, Sinclair, Stéfan, Dobson, Teresa, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Radzikowska, Milena, & INKE Research Group. (2014). The Provision of Digital Apparatus for Use in Experimental Interfaces. Scholarly and Research Communication, 5(4): 0401194, 11 pp.