Ideas for the Imagining, Designing and Starting A Hypertext Exercise

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designwritex

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Hello everyone,

Please respond to this thread by 6pm Monday, Feb 15 with a brief summary of your idea for the "Imagining, Designing and Starting a Hypertext". Include a link to your new tiddlywiki if you have one, but it isn't necessary. We'll use these ideas as the basis of our discussion on the Workshop to be conducted that day at 7pm on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/561925928).


Hegart Dmishiv

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This is going to be a fun exercise! I've entitled my new TiddlyWiki for this one, "Inclusivity", and it will be a hypertextualized essay about functional diversity, the social model of disability, the UNCRPD, and our right to inclusion in all aspects of society. Also, during the next two weeks that this exercise will run, I'll be attending the Show Your Ability expo on 23 February, so I hope to get some primary research, maybe even some photographs, to add to my essay.

Interestingly, I happen to know personally the author cited in Wikipedia, Philip Patston, and I hope to see him at the expo.

Hegart Dmishiv

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Here's the first draft of a mindmap for my exercise answer. Click the image to see it full sized.



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My idea is to create a narrative with photographs of an instructional guide of how to cook or bake something. For example, I will take steps of a recipe and break them out into individual tiddlers. Within each tiddler, I can create links to other tiddlers with ingredients, tools and techniques used in the recipe. It will be a step-by-step guide with visuals displaying each step. As far as the photographs, do they have to be our own original photographs or links to images we find on the internet?

Btw--to display my idea I am going to use Popplet. If you haven't used popplet before I highly suggest it!

hallensp

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From the reading: "This is important, for one of the significant ways in which students develop as hypertext writers is to experience hypertext writing as a generative practice where structure emerges through, and not prior to, writing." Using this sentence as a foundation, I plan to do a photo essay about Walt Disney World, more specifically the Magic Kingdom. By utilizing the technique we learned last Monday the photos will provide the tags and structure, based on my Captions. These created tags will form the narrative of the text. I hope to utilize as little text as possible, and use the images themselves to tell the story. 
The photographs I will be using will be taken by me, due to the fact that I'll be at WDW from Tuesday until next Wednesday. My daughter is turning 16 and running the Glass Slipper Challenge which is a 10k one day followed by a half-marathon the following day. I'm bringing my laptop to facilitate cre3atioon of the narrative/text in real time, on a day-to-day basis.

When Walt Disney imagined the Magic Kingdom, it was in the shape of a wheel, with a hub at the center, and "spokes" leading to the other lands he created. The lands were connected to each other as well, which could be looked at as an early form of hyperttextuality. Each land was connected in a way that allowed one to go from land to land quickly. Each land could be envisioned by us as a tag, with links back to the central hub. Look at this early rendition of the Magic Kingdom to see what I mean.

A quick mockup, VERY BASIC, of my Tiddler:  

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Hey --

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:24 AM, aielloab <aiel...@sunyit.edu> wrote:
My idea is to creative a narrative with photographs of an instructional guide of how to cook or bake something. For example, I will take steps of a recipe and break them out into individual tiddlers. Within each tiddler, I can create links to ingredients, tools and techniques used in the recipe. It will be a step-by-step guide with visuals displaying each step. As far as the photographs, do they have to be our own original photographs or links to images we find on the internet?

First - absolutely you may appropriate objects from the web. Do be aware of intellectual property rights -- I routinely search Google images with search tools / usage rights non-commercial with modifiction. You may choose to make archival impressions of your objects - screenshots, scrapbook of Web pages, flickr, Pinterest) and embed them in your Wiki, followng the logic in PopupTagger, a tool I'm releasing today.

The interesting thing about recipes is that for something that is so step-oriented and thus has this sequential feel to it, as Yummly and other sites have demonstrated, there are multiple sequencies through which readers are interested in encountering recipes. Sometimes we (readers) start with ingredients, or sometimes with the number of guests and the food in mind. So I applaud your idea to build structure around ingredients, tools, techniques. In order to see these hypertextual techniques come to life, though, you'd need to have 10-20 recipes that shared some ingredients, tools and techniques. I'd suggest taking some of your recipes (or those from an existing cookbook) that have some overlaps, and working with those. And I think the idea of techniques is great -- I think that Julia Child does some of this in her master cookbooks....

 

Btw--to display my idea I am going to use Popplet. If you haven't used popplet before I highly suggest it!

***Later note: on rereading this, I now realize that Popplet was to be used to present the graphic, not to do the actual writing. Duh! But, in case my initial thought that Popplet was being used to do writing, or in case anyone is interested in using other tools than TiddlyWiki, here is a response:

This is Popplet: http://popplet.com/

On using Popplet in {{DesignWrite}} -- I hadn't anticipated that community members would write in another environment than TiddlyWiki. In part, an important component of the community is to write in a shared development environment. Learning to write in a community works well, I think, when we're using the same tools. That being said, I think it would be a good learning opportunity for all members to benefit from your interest in Popplet. I'd be particularly interested in how Popplet is responsive to writing in the way described in the Miles reading. Is there a backend to this tool and/or a scripting interface? I'm always excited to hear of new tools that folks discover that seem to satisfy their hypertextual impulses ....

It is critical that Popplet support linking, tagging and transcluding -- as discussed in our last Conversation the essence of writing hypertext is captured by the availability of tools to support those three techniques, and the exercise invites you to write using these techniques.

(I'm thinking that templating will be the fourth, and you should be beginning to write with  this technique as well).

Also, if Popplet doesn't support some form of ``commenting or internal documentation`` like TiddlyWiki does with the use of ``backticks`` you'll need to document externally; screenshots?

Thanks for writing, write back here if you've got questions or want to discuss more --

//steve.

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designwritex

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Hegart, very interesting extension of your work in what is often called text mining (Wikipedia). It will be interesting to see how your project emerges, especially if your glossary terms are emergent. You might work with the RenameTags macro (in the main DesignWrite wiki) and rework it so it also replaces occurrences of tags within texts of tiddlers.

Another aspect of Hegart's work here that might interest others: The opportunity to autotag text. So you might import a larger text, perhaps in multiple tiddlers (for example, one tiddler per chapter, or one tiddler per journal entry). The using autotag functionality [ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/ozri0M-hoC8 ], which I haven't tested but would be glad to help you figure out, you could identify tags to create within texts, and change presentation of those words.

For example, if your decided to look through the text collection of archive.org, and satisfy your curiosity about the Kennedy Assassination by writing on/about a set of documents (perhaps including these notes from the examining physician: https://archive.org/stream/NMAndTheKennedyAssassination/NM%20and%20the%20Kennedy%20Assassination_djvu.txt), you might want to tag terms like "Robert Kennedy" and "body" and "homicide." I would think of the act of tagging as an act of writing, as through these tags you will enable readers to navigate the text.

Given a list of tags (in this case: body, Bobby Kennedy, interceeded, Attorney General of Texas, Air Force One, investigation, homicide) Autotag could change this original text:

The prosecutorial attorney or whoever it was that was in control in Dallas 
was not going to release the body to anybody because it was a case of homicide and 
it was in his jurisdiction to control that particular body until such a time as the 
homicide could be concluded or the investigation concluded and go on from there. 
And it took Bobby Kennedy to call the Attorney General of Texas 6 to get the attorney 
from the Dallas area to release the body so that they could put it back on Air Force 
One and bring it back to D.C. And that's what actually was done. He actually 
interceded with the Attorney General of Texas and got the body on Air Force One.

to this modified text:

The prosecutorial attorney or whoever it was that was in control in Dallas was not going to release the <<tag "body">> to anybody because it was a case of <<tag "homicide">> and it was in his jurisdiction to control that particular body until such a time as the homicide could be concluded or the <<tag "investigation">> concluded and go on from there. And it took <<tag "Bobby Kennedy">> to call the <<tag "Attorney General of Texas">> 6 to get the attorney from the Dallas area to release the <<tag "body">> so that they could put it back on <<tag "Air Force One">> and bring it back to D.C. And that's what actually was done. He actually <<tag "interceded">> with the Attorney General of Texas and got the body on Air Force One.


designwritex

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On Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 11:46:01 PM UTC-5, hallensp wrote:
 a photo essay about Walt Disney World, more specifically the Magic Kingdom. ...... photos will provide the tags and structure, based on my Captions. These created tags will form the narrative of the text. I hope to utilize as little text as possible, and use the images themselves to tell the story. 

 
The photographs I will be using will be taken by me, due to the fact that I'll be at WDW from Tuesday until next Wednesday. .... cre3atioon of the narrative/text in real time, on a day-to-day basis.

Oh, so cool!!

Then, let's take advantage of this opportunity. How exciting.

Sean's got it pretty well figured out, but for others, there are a few ways of doing something like this that come to mind.

* Dynamic: If you are posting / sharing these photos to any channel that IFTTT recognized (Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Evernote, .....) then you can write a recipe to process these objects and generate dropbox .txt files, convert them to .tid files, and import into TiddlyWiki. You could write tiddler titles or tags in the Flickr / Facebook etc. interface. If you use WikiWords that tags will become interpretable in TiddlyWiki and thus links etc. You would manually import the .tid files, and from your titles or comments, you would nearly-automatically generate a narrative by enabling links on the words.  We could also develop technique for navigating on time taken, location, etc. Whatever you do, see if you can maximize the amount of metadata about your photographs so that you have more to work with in your hypertext.

So the WDW "lands" are but one tag. Who / what is in the photos become the basis for other tags. Plus, what is happening in the photo (activities?) and other social / emotional descriptions of the photo. Key, though, is what you write at the time you share.

* Embedded: another approach would be to use the Popup Tagger tool, and embed selected photos (from Flikr, Google Photos, etc.) and tag according to a pre-established hierarchy, with the ability to add new tags during the process of embedding. Once you have these objects embedded, then you could write a journal entry for each day, referencing through transclusion the photo objects you've embedded. Each day could then get represented (or tagged) by the collection of tags included on tiddlers cited in the daily journal. For example, if you have three photos transcluded in MondayJournal, and the photos had these tags:   Photo1 (TagA, TagB, TagC)  Photo2 (TagA TagC TagD) Photo3 (TagD TagE) then we would tag MondayJournal with TagA...TagE.  If your tags were responsive to Miles article (tag on verbs...), then you would have a narrative that supported navigation on those kinds of concepts.

* And a third approach is to somehow combine the two above approaches.

Very cool! Have fun.....

//steve.

moyerb

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Hello! 

I am going to focus on Commentary for my idea for the "Imagining, Designing and Starting a Hypertext." I have always loved old school rap music, circa 1980s through the 1990s. Mostly, I enjoyed the political narrative on social issues that rappers were bringing to the forefront during this time. I plan to study the works of several rappers during this time and hone in on topics they cover such as poverty, welfare, education, politics, wars, crime, drugs, teenage pregnancy and so on. I would like the tiddlywiki to bring these issues to the forefront and see rap in the eyes of poetry versus what the mainstream image of rap is, and may be rightly so, today. I will link common issues together and see how each individual's narrative created a dialect and narrative for issues during this decade. 


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I will be doing a tiddlyWiki on my photography. This TiddlyWiki will show that there is more than just hitting the shutter button on a  camera to take great photos. 

There will be a landing page to help the user early navigate this TiddlyWiki. (Yes a landing page)

There will be 4 categories of my photography:
  • Wedding
  • Macro
  • Studio
  • Nature
There will be 4 photos in each category with a description of each photograph.

Each photo will have one or more of tags based on:
  • Wedding
  • Macro
  • Studio
  • Nature
  • Iso Speed Ratings
  • Lens
  • Focal Length
  • Model
  • Color Profile
  • Exposure Time
  • Aperture Value
I will be filtering tags based on:
  • Wedding
  • Macro
  • Studio
  • Nature
  • Iso Speed Ratings
  • Lens
  • Focal Length
  • Model
  • Color Profile
  • Exposure Time
  • Aperture Value
I have included a link to my mind map using Popplet.

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Hegart Dmishiv

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Hi Steve,

I've had a look at Danielo's AutoTag plugin just now, and I might just add it to my Imagining, designing and starting a hypertext exercise wiki. It looks to be a good fit for the way I work* with adding tags to references. Thanks for suggesting it. Also, I like the idea of using tag pills rather than plain hyperlinks within the full text of a tiddler**. That is definitely something I'll look at doing in this exercise. Gosh, I do wish there was syntax highlighting within the edit window of TiddlyWiki though! Is this possible, do you know?

Hegart.


* I found a problem with using AutoTag. Whenever the word "References" is mentioned in a tiddler in my TW, it now gets tagged with that word by AutoTag, and that tiddler then becomes part of my References collection in my knowledgebase, even if it isn't one! As Mat mentioned in Danielo's thread, this plugin needs a whitelist/blacklist feature. For now I'll just have to be hyper-vigilant to not save a tiddler when the word "References" appears in the tag list, unless I specifically want it to.

** I've just noticed that using tag pills instead of regular hyperlinks has one major restriction. I very often use aliases in my hyperlinks, such as when placing plural [[links|link]] to a singular tiddler. This doesn't work at all in a tag pill.

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I'm in the process of creating a photo-based TiddlyWiki about local wild plants, called HyperPlants. So far I've brainstormed some plants I'd like to include, some characteristics of these plants that I can use to organize them by, and a beginning hierarchy structure for these characteristics/tags. The photos I'm using are borrowed from the web, and I'm linking to them (I haven't been looking specifically for those labelled for noncommercial reuse with modification, but I'll try it). Now the fun/challenging part is how exactly to arrange tags in a navigable hierarchy that allows for ease of navigation by plant part (e.g. leaf), plant species (e.g. black raspberry), plant part type (fuzzy leaf), etc.

Like definitions in a dictionary, biological organisms were never suited to linear representation. They're intertwingled, which is why they'll be ideal for this project.

This is indeed going to be fun!

-Kira



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My idea for this project is an autobiography. Not only does my autobiography include tags that overlap, there is a lot of information that can be distributed both in tiddlers and tags. My main tiddlers would be my past, present and future. Each tiddler would extend into the below tiddlers.

My past:
Life in Bosnia
Bosnian War - Wikipedia links
Journey to America
Visits to the country/Travels
Schools
Photos

My present:
Married Life
Graduate School
Travels
Photos

Future:
Married Life
Kids
Graduate School
Visits to the country/Travels
Photos





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Hello Everyone!

I was looking for a story that would have a lot of verbs and decided that since it is Lent season I would focus on the stations of the cross.  I can get pictures of the stations by either taking them or finding them online.  I am Catholic so this was based on the stations from http://www.catholic.org/  These differed slightly from Wikopedia and may be a little different for other religions?  In any case, the nice thing about the stations is that you don't have to start at the 1st station which goes along with us thinking differently about writing and following a sequence.  I did a rough draft below and although the verbs have tiddlers they haven't been linked to information yet.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/748fpx98p5zbj5q/Stations of the Cross.html?dl=0/s/748fpx98p5zbj5q

Thanks!

Kim Hazen  


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So after thinking about a topic that I’d be able to stick with (I have a short attention span, admittedly), I’m going to write a commentary on the video game industry and how info leaks, public opinion, and changes in outside technology can impact a video game’s development.


My four main tiddlers (so what everything will be tied to) will be:

  • ·         Video Game Industry
  • ·         Information leaks
  • ·         Public opinion
  • ·         State of outside technological developments.

Secondary tiddlers will include (list is subject to change):

  • ·         Current state of the video game industry
  • ·         Examples of information leaks
  • ·         Company’s responses to those leaks
  • ·         Public opinion of before/after
  • ·         Public’s response to the leak
  • ·         Fan forums
  • ·         Social media use
  • ·         Fan creations
  • ·         Beta/demo software
  • ·         Conventions
  • ·         OS changes
  • ·         Graphics software/hardware
  • ·         Console changes
  • o   Console war
  • ·         Processor changes
  • ·         PC/PS4/Xbox One comparison
  • ·         DRM software

I’m a huge video game fan, so while this may seem like a considerable undertaking I actually have a lot of sources to work with to create this project. I’ve only started coming up with mockup builds, so I don’t have any links to provide currently because nothing is really ready to be shown.


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For this project, it would be so much fun to observe and document, from start to finish, a Utica Comets game. From the time the teams have warm ups to each face off and goal, I think using a combination of commentary and photos would be a great way to describe three periods of play. It would be the best way to capture the fan perspective, whether it's photos or a video. Some of the links may include fans, highlights and warm ups. I think documenting each period through photos throughout each of the 20 minutes of play would best describe the highlights link. The tags would be filtered to reflect keywords about the game: Utica Comets, visiting team name, hockey fans and other hockey terms or even specific players names. Each tiddler would tell somewhat of a timeline of a hockey game.


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Great idea Azra, looking forward to seeing how this plays out.
I suggest: create three tiddlers/tags (MyPast, MyPresent, MyFuture) each tagged to "AzraAutoBiography" and then do a bunch of "new heres" from those. In [[AzraAutoBiography]] put <<toc AzraAutoBiography>> and go from there.


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Brianna, cool idea, sounds good. I think you might especially benefit from Miles suggestion of building tags as you go along. Just let it go a bit freeform, and see what you end up with. Try to keep your tiddlers to a paragraph or so, and perhaps take some existing texts and chunk them out into tiddlers? Or, treat each piece of work as a tiddler, and do some "new heres" from them, using tags primarily on your commentary tiddlers.

Be sure that you tag all your commentary tiddlers with a common tag (Commentary or something like that) so you can find the all with a <<list-links...

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James sounds good (if a bit hierarchical, but thats ok).

The idea of a landing page is excellent.  But in TiddlyWiki, let's call it a default tiddler instead. Make sure you reerence it in the control panel so that it will come up automatically when your tiddlywiki loads.


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Kira, that sounds like a good project plan. Nicely organized so far!

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Kim, interesting idea.

I played a bit with your tiddlywiki (Your initial link was broken, but I fixed it by adding  %20 in the spaces in your link!).

In the link below, I demo how you could use a template [[words]] to create tiddlers of your [[bracketed words]] (not that you wanted to do that, but I wanted to illustrate the concept. Note that I am introducing a template here)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/3yeh0kg1g131oke/kim-hazen-stations-cross.html?dl=0

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That's a great idea, Jessica.

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I plan to create a hypertext that serves as a guide to library resources on symbolism.

Recently, in the graduate psychology school where I work, there was a class assignment directing students to research an image from their dreams.

This assignment resulted in a flurry of emails to me and other reference librarians as many students had difficulties finding relevant materials (from academic sources) to complete their assignment.

Ironically, the library here includes a rich collection of symbol & image dictionaries (both print & online) which were highly relevant to this assignment but were mostly underutilized in favor of other, more generic sources.

In addition to highlighting and linking to the library's many symbol and image resources, I also intend to include tips on search strategies to better assist future students who may one day struggle with a similar assignment.

This library guide to symbolism will augment some similar resources that I have developed (using TiddlyWiki, such as:

Library Guide to Folklore Motifs
http://www.pacifica.edu/lib/motifs.html

Library Guide to Reference Sources in Mythology, Religion & Folklore
http://www.pacifica.edu/lib/tw/mythref.html

I also plan to glean from, clean up and work on these previously developed library guides as I develop this new one.

I look forward to working on this and following the activities of other DesignWriters as we complete this assignment.

Mark

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Here's the second draft of a mindmap for my exercise answer. Click the image to see it full sized.



I'm now using Tobias Beer's <$appear> plugin in my knowledgebase for this exercise. Try clicking, in that tiddler (knowledgebase), on the link for the third bullet point, to really see <$appear> in action!

Hegart Dmishiv

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Here's the third draft of a mindmap for my exercise answer. Click the image to see it full sized.




I'll stop posting these now, unless other students start posting theirs again, or someone asks me to continue posting mine. Sorry if I've been spamming up the thread.

Hegart.

Ken Crosby

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I'm going to be building out a multimedia digital narrative. My hope is to begin building out a story that becomes a database for itself. I'm worried I'm a ways behind on this, my life got a little hectic and I spaced on keeping up with homework.

I want this TiddlyWiki to be something that takes as much advantage of the digital platform(s) as possible. I'm not sure if it will be entirely visual, written or auditory yet.

Here's the TiddlyWiki I set up for this. I threw in a quick Tiddler to get it kicking.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/mz26nr6db5xmwlt/kmcstorytiddlywiki.html?dl=0

designwritex

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Mark, sorry for the long delay and shanks for the idea. I read this, thought about, and responded mentally, but never got back to it...



On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 5:36:25 PM UTC-5, M. Kelly wrote:

I plan to create a hypertext that serves as a guide to library resources on symbolism.

Recently, in the graduate psychology school where I work, there was a class assignment directing students to research an image from their dreams.

This assignment resulted in a flurry of emails to me and other reference librarians as many students had difficulties finding relevant materials (from academic sources) to complete their assignment.

Ironically, the library here includes a rich collection of symbol & image dictionaries (both print & online) which were highly relevant to this assignment but were mostly underutilized in favor of other, more generic sources.

In addition to highlighting and linking to the library's many symbol and image resources, I also intend to include tips on search strategies to better assist future students who may one day struggle with a similar assignment.


It seems to me the challenge (from the perspective of designing and writing an interactive text) and opportunity would be to build on (through tags) existing library records. Could you ingest the relevant catalog records into your wiki, using the existing fields of the catalog records as tiddler fields, and then deriving tagging and filtering structures? 

You might look to design an interactive filter builder, in a sense -- allowing readers to create complex queries on your objects to narrow and refine their results. (But this only makes sense if you have hundreds or thousands of dictionaries, probably).

(This is pretty much what Amazon does)

You might have noticed that the last set of exercises and talks have been using terms like "object" and "tagging" tiddlers In your case, it seems the object tiddlers are Library resources (dictionaries). How many do you have? Are you trying to help students decide which ones to look at? Or, just to let them know they exist? 

And the "tagging tiddlers" could be derived by scraping the object tiddlers, which presumably will be richly described with many fields from the library catalog record.

designwritex

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Feb 25, 2016, 4:21:07 PM2/25/16
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Hey Ken -

On sliders - I'd shift to Appear. It's pretty well documented....


On Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 9:32:37 PM UTC-5, Ken Crosby wrote:
I'm going to be building out a multimedia digital narrative. My hope is to begin building out a story that becomes a database for itself. I'm worried I'm a ways behind on this, my life got a little hectic and I spaced on keeping up with homework.

You are not too behind at all. i love the phrase, "building out a story that becomes a database for itself" -- i can't wait to see where you go.


//steve.

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