Pliny: A note manager

Project start date: 2005-09
The Pliny project aims to promote some thinking that looks broadly at the provision of tools to support scholarship. One of its products is a piece of free software, also called Pliny, which facilitates note-taking and annotation, allowing its user to integrate these initial notes into a representation of an evolving personal interpretation.
Methods usedCategory
Cataloguing and indexingData structuring and enhancement
Data modellingData structuring and enhancement
Human factors analysisStrategy and project management
Iterative designStrategy and project management
Version controlStrategy and project management
designDiscipline
linguisticsDiscipline
musicDiscipline
archaeologyDiscipline
textContent types
mediaDiscipline
Content types created: 
Text
Software tools used: 
Java, Eclipse
Digital resource created:  
A standalone application. Runs on Windows and Macintosh or as a "plugin" in the Eclipse framework
Data Formats created: 
HTML, XML
Generation of HTML files from XML data for web-delivery
Publications:  
Bradley, John. 2009. “What the developer saw: an outsider’s view of Annotation, Interpretation and Scholarship”. Ray Siemens and Gary Shawver (eds.). New Paths for Computing Humanists: A Volume Celebrating and Recognizing Ian Lancashire. Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (ISSN 1918-3666) 1, no. 1. http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/143/202 (accessed 17 February 2010).

Bradley, John. 2008. “Thinking about Interpretation: Pliny and Scholarship in the Humanities”, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 23, no. 3: 263-79. doi: 10.1093/llc/fqn021

Bradley, John 2008. “Pliny: A model for digital support of scholarship”. Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) 9, no 1 (formally No. 26). http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/209/198 (accessed 17 February 2010).


Institutions affiliated with this project: 

UK HE institutions involved:
King's College London

Project staff and expertise: 

Principal staff member:John Bradley
Other staff:
External expertise:


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Author(s) of recordJohn Bradley
TitlePliny: A note manager
Record created2010-02-17
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