Tag: Digital Stewardship

11: Stewardship and Organization: Hypertext as a Viably Flawed System

I’m intrigued by the idea of hypertext as an especially interactive and sometimes collaborative medium. I still find it puzzling though. I understand the premise and purpose, even though I don’t fully understand the concept and all of its intricacies. I’ve also done some reading on this topic for Dr. Robertson’s History of the Book…

1: Digital Stewardship

I was very interested in the idea of stewardship following our class discussion. Particularly, its role in the process of digital publishing. In The Complexity of the Digital Text, Okkerse mentions the “unseen complexity involved in digital publishing”. Perhaps the most unseen and complex occupation in the realm of digital publishing is stewardship. According to…