Mesotext
Subtitle: digitised emblems, modelled annotations and humanities scholarship
By: Peter Boot
Contributors: ebrary, Inc
Series: Mesotext
Publisher: Pallas Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789085550525
Subjects: Emblems; Books; Book Annotating; Bibliographical citations; Electronic publishing; History
Other titles: Mesotekst :
Description: The most strikingly missing piece of functionality in current digital editions is that of annotation. Digital editions should offer a facility where researchers can store structured and unstructured observations with respect to the edited texts. This book discusses a number of approaches to annotation systems in the context of the study of emblems, the sixteenth and seventeenth century literary genre that joins an image, a motto and an often moralizing epigram. When handled properly, annotation can become mesotext, text positioned between the annotated texts and the scholarly articles and monographs for which the annotations provide the evidence. In a digital context, it should be possible to navigate back and forth between annotated text, annotation and article.
Notes: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Universiteit Utrecht, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Text in English; title and summary in Dutch on added thesis title page.