Pliny: A note manager
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Grant Holder:
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.
Generation of HTML files from XML data for web-delivery
| Project start date: 2005-09 |
Subject domains:
Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History, Dance Studies, Drama and Theatre Studies, English Language and Literature, Modern Languages, History, Law, Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies, Linguistics, Media, Music, Philosophy, Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies, Architecture: History, Theory & Practice, Community Arts (including Art and Health), Cultural Policy, Arts management and the creative industries, Design
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Data modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Human factors analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Iterative design | Strategy and project management |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| design | Discipline |
| linguistics | Discipline |
| music | Discipline |
| archaeology | Discipline |
| text | Content types |
| media | Discipline |
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
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).
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).
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | John Bradley |
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| Author(s) of record | John Bradley |
| Title | Pliny: A note manager |
| Record created | 2010-02-17 |
| Record updated | 2010-05-06 16:36 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2996 |
| Citation of record | John Bradley: Pliny: A note manager. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2996> created: 2010-02-17, last updated 2010-05-06 16:36 |