Kate Wittenberg, director of EPIC, on the digital editorial process, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, issue of 6/20/2003. Article available to subscribers to the Chronicle.
"When the author of a new scholarly monograph talked about the publication process at a recent conference, she described the 'collaborative team' that contributed in significant ways to both the form and the content of her work. First she praised her editor -- for the design concept. Then she thanked the production manager and director of technology -- for their cogent editorial suggestions.
"What, exactly, is going on here? What has happened to traditional roles and divisions in a publishing organization? And what does it mean for scholarly communication? . . . "
Kathryn Brown will present her conceptual mapping work,"Multiple Meanings and Interpretation: Capturing Discourse in the Humanities Using XML Topic Maps" at Oxford University's Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference in late August.
A volume of selected papers from the conference is published annually by the Office for Humanities Communication at King's College, London.