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Given that you have good models to work with, in fact it will no longer be that hard to pull this off. You probably wouldn't want to merely produce a pdf, which reproduces a print page for the non-print world. That would be a shame.

Because the Aphrodisias inscriptions use (to a large extent) standard technology, they can be presented in a number of ways (just as Perseus texts can be presented in a number of ways), and enable searching, etc. One choice you'd have to make is the one-document-for-everything model (text, translation, commentary, ..all in one) or separate documents, intelligently linked (Perseus, papyrological navigator, ..). I think ultimately the latter model is better because intrinsically easier to expand (add someone else's commentary or translation, new collations of different mss..) and to incorporate in larger collections. 

I think there's at least one person engaged in writing commentary and a commentary interface on this list, and given that Son of Suda on Line is on github, it may soon be straightforward to use its code base for things other than papyrology. (wishful thinking? I'd be interested in hearing from that team what they think)

Helma

On Mar 5, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Schwendner, Gregg wrote:

First, the text I am editing is quite long (128,600 word), and requires a translation, commentary with a supplementary translation the catenae version of related work.
I am trying to demonstrate the oral features of the text, it is necessary to include a number of cross reff. to illustrate the use of formulaic features the author (speaker, really, lecturer in fact). Hyperlinks would be a real advantage, in terms of functionality int his regard.
I also reconstruct the text of the Psalms the lector reads out, and how it differs from the one Didymus has memorized. 
No royalties expected, so the way OUP does it, e.g., is out. My "learned society", the American Society of Papyrologists, produced the last papyrological congress as a pdf edition, and the Hellenic Center also has an interesting e-series. C. Rouche's online edition of the Aphrodisias inscrr. and the Bowman et al.'s online version of the T.Vindolanda are good models, although seem to involve more programming than I am capable of. The Codex Sinaiticus ed. is wonderful, but the same points can be made with a static (rather than dynamic) images.
I clearly need to think about "distribution" — getting into catalogues etc.

G Schwendner

On Mar 1, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Helma Dik wrote:

Lots of questions here. Where will people find your publication, what kind of flexibility are you looking for, and what kind of peer-review equivalent are you hoping for? Word of mouth? Traffic data? 'Also seen' in BMCR? 

You mention flexibility: Will your publication gain in functionality from living in a collection with related resources (links to reference works, primary texts?)
You mention publishers: Are you looking to earn royalties or are you looking for wide distribution? 

Looking for library catalogs to include this electronic resource in their catalogs? Depending on the kind of publication, it can be smart not to serve it from your institutional library but to look for a different home (or several homes).

For what it's worth, Perseus includes publications that are born-digital side by side with digitized older materials. And at Chicago, we've added one or two things to that collection as well. But Stoa.org has been the main go-to site for stand-alone born-digital projects in the past. 

Helma Dik

On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Peter Anderson wrote:

And if you're associated with an institution, you can always check with your library. This is especially true in the States, from what I understand. My impression is that research libraries, and increasingly libraries at primarily undergraduate institutions, are hosting all manner of digital scholarship for their faculty.  Libraries can also attach metadata so projects can be discoverable to a worldwide scholarly community as well as a broad non-specialist audience if you have one.  GVSU (an undergraduate institution), for example, now hosts and provides infrastructure for 2 peer-reviewed journals and a number of other publications, some peer-reviewed and some not. And, from the Dean of Libraries at my institution, "the libraries typically bear the cost of hosting and software maintenance." Now that's a song worth singing!


On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:17 PM, O'Donnell, Dan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
It really depends on the nature of the project and the discipline. But I'm not sure we've really developed a robust infrastructure to replace what came before.

At Digital Medievalist we've played with the idea of hosting projects in medieval studies, but never really acted on it. At the Medieval Academy we've been engaged in some unresolved discussion of ways of refereeing stand-alone projects without acting as publisher. And of course there are both stand-alone and published projects. More of the former than the latter, I'd guess, for the really large web-based ones.

On 11-03-01 08:12 AM, Schwendner, Gregg wrote:

Dear List members,

I was wondering if anyone knew of places where large digital project could find a home?
Things that would otherwise be books, but would  benefit from the flexibility  and availability of digital publication? I know the Hellenic Center has such a series, and that several other publishers are making print material available at about the print price.

G. Schwendner





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Peter Anderson
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Grand Valley State University
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