Literary Machines: Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive

Literary Machines: Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive

Digital humanities

In his foundational new media text, Nelson describes literature itself as a series of interconnecting documents, and suggests that society needs a universal system for storing and preserving texts. Though he writes in the early 1980s, Nelson's proposal pinpoints many of the facets that today are defining features of the digital archive: the user's ability to search for and recall the correct text; evolving storage structures; and linked elements such as placemarkers, footnotes, and hypertextual jumps. Nelson's system, like a digital archive, would be open to the public, but the option would also exist for personal, private archiving.

Nelson, Theodor H.
Wardrip-Fruin, Noah
Montfort, Nick

The MIT Press

2003

Sara Raffel

Book

ISBN-13: 978-0262232272

Nelson, Theodor H. "Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive."