February 21, 2005

Your Scholarship

What do you, as a scholar, want to be able to do with existing full text electronic resources—like the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center collections, or the Brown Women Writers Project, to name two—that you currently cannot do? What kinds of research questions do you have that these collections currently cannot help you answer but which you think perhaps one day they could or should? What kinds of features, functionality, and results would assist you or encourage you in using these collections in your work?

Don’t worry about what is or isn’t technically feasible. Just be as clear as you can about what you want and why you want it.

Yes, there is a context for this question.

Posted by mgk at February 21, 2005 02:13 PM
Comments

Can I vote for indexing and cross referencing in terms of subject and keywords?

Posted by: dr. b. at February 21, 2005 03:29 PM | Link to Comment

Can I vote for personal, inline, searchable annotations that you can datamine across multiple texts (say, all of Twain for example)?

Posted by: Jason at February 21, 2005 08:00 PM | Link to Comment
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