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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Brave New Web

A few years ago a I wrote an article entitled Multimedia Medievalia: The Fate of Traditional Scholarship in a Post-Modern World, for a collection of published papers. It has recently been republished on the web on the new site Medievalists.net. Re-reading it, I discover it was largely a bit of a whinge about the difficulties of trying to be a pioneer in the use of multimedia for educational purposes. With a bit more water having passed under the bridge, how does that vision stack up?
At the end of the article I did express some optimism that the web might provide the means for building complex meta-projects in which the various elements interlock through cyberspace. Having just gone through the process of repairing broken links yet again in Medieval Writing, I realise that the web is still not stable enough for that. I think I have largely repaired the lists of external links, for now, but I know that there are many links embedded in the hundreds of pages of text on the site that have gone phut, and I could spend my whole time trying to track them down and never get on with putting any of my own content up.
Is the web destined to forever be a place of fleeting meetings of ephemera? I hope I live long enough to prove that wrong.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I want to congratulate you for this interesting blog about the medieval handwriting culture. There is a very fascinating tool to learn paleography in the Net. I would invite you to visit my blog about "Medieval Cartularies" at: http://cartulariosmedievales.blogspot.com
Alfonso Sánchez Mairena
Archivist
Madrid - Spain

Derek-L said...

Notwithstanding the extensive frustrations with updating the links, you can rest assured that your travails are a worthwhile and probably important addition to present understandings of your interests.

Goodonya,
Derek

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