One important but under-considered aspect of the connection between television’s rise and the Cold War is the anxiety that the rapid growth in the cultural influence of television produced in its wake, most notably a concern about the older, traditional American culture ostensibly being left behind. Included within this “traditional” culture was…[Read more]

Workshop material. This half-day workshop introduced strategies for handling XML when publishing with static site generators and front-end technologies. The workshop focused on isomorphic approaches to publishing XML data on the web or, in other words, publishing XML data with little or no transformation, or with a structure-preserving mapping…[Read more]

With the brazen privatization, if not pending chaotic collapse of Twitter, millions of people are looking for alternative spaces to share their work, thoughts, and ill-conceived memes. Among the many digital migrants are a significant number of academics who looking for guidance, and familiar faces, as they try to make sense of the many new…[Read more]

This chapter looks at digital publishing from the perspective of surviving texts from the ancient world, the works of Vergil, Sappho 31, and the Res Gestae Divi Augusti. It asks what looking at examples of very long-term survival may have to tell us about digital preservation in the modern era.