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Digital Texts 2.0Towards Social Networking of Texts
Johnny RodgersSimon Fraser Universityjohnny@creativecreature.ca
Dr. Stéfan SinclairMcMaster Universitysgs@mcmaster.ca
Shawn DayMcMaster Universityshawn@shawnday.com
Presented at CaSTA 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis
October 18th, 2008
Overview
Digital Texts 2.0 http://dtext2.org Johnny Rodgers & Dr. Stéfan Sinclair
Our goal is to experiment with new ways of finding, managing, and using digital texts, with a particular emphasis on social networking practices and modern web technologies.
Digital Texts 2.0http://dtext2.org
or find us on Facebook athttp://apps.facebook.com/digitaltexts
Feedback? johnny@creativecreature.casgs@mcmaster.ca
Social Networking
photos
bookmarks
videos
people
texts ?Digital Texts 2.0 http://dtext2.org Johnny Rodgers & Dr. Stéfan Sinclair
Evolution of Digital Texts
Digital Text 1.0 Digital Text 2.0
embeddedhypertextual links
associations throughsocial tagging
independent objects objects associatedwith people
focus oncontent (encoding) focus on uses
analytic procedures “mashability”
Digital Texts 2.0 http://dtext2.org Johnny Rodgers & Dr. Stéfan Sinclair
Evolution of Digital Texts
Digital Text 1.0 Digital Text 2.0
embeddedhypertextual links
associations throughsocial tagging
independent objects objects associatedwith people
focus oncontent (encoding) focus on uses
analytic procedures “mashability”
Digital Texts 2.0 http://dtext2.org Johnny Rodgers & Dr. Stéfan Sinclair
Digital Texts 2.0
What if you could... build a text collection collaboratively?
annotate and tag texts?
recommend texts or see what others are reading?
use web services to import text metadata?
tap into students’ enthusiasm for Facebook?
Digital Texts 2.0 http://dtext2.org Johnny Rodgers & Dr. Stéfan Sinclair
Demo
Challenges
only modest use (130 users, 20 active)
little promotion, beta, difficult to get buy-in
need for Facebook account
privacy (USA), mainstream vs. academic uses
defining “digital text”full text or referent, metadata, content, uses, usage
not yet integrated with text analysis toolscitation generation, data mining, TAPoR
Digital Texts 2.0 http://dtext2.org Johnny Rodgers & Dr. Stéfan Sinclair
Successes
feature-rich application in short timeopen source tools, iterative development, agility
participation of beta-testersonline since day one, active participation of users
useful knowledge for next phase (TAPoR 2.0)preliminary data design model for social networking
learn from experiences
paid for my year in New Zealand!
Digital Texts 2.0 http://dtext2.org Johnny Rodgers & Dr. Stéfan Sinclair
Summary
Digital Texts 2.0 http://dtext2.org Johnny Rodgers & Dr. Stéfan Sinclair
Our goal is to experiment with new ways of finding, managing, and using digital texts, with a particular emphasis on social networking practices and modern web technologies.
Digital Texts 2.0http://dtext2.org
or find us on Facebook athttp://apps.facebook.com/digitaltexts
Feedback? johnny@creativecreature.casgs@mcmaster.ca
Thanks!
Digital Texts 2.0 TeamStéfan Sinclair, Johnny Rodgers, Shawn Day, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, Susan Brown, Peter Organisciak, Amanda Etches-Johnson, Krista Godfrey
SSHRC RDI (primary funding)
TAPoR (computing infrastructure)
CaSTA (conference support)
SFU SIAT (conference support)
Digital Texts 2.0 http://dtext2.org Johnny Rodgers & Dr. Stéfan Sinclair