stéfan sinclair :: scribblings & musings

We’ve made available a preview release of Digital Texts 2.0, an attempt to experiment with social networking practises in the context of interacting with electronic texts. Although we have a fairly detailed scholarly agenda for this project, one of the things I’m most curious about is whether or not students would be interested in using a Facebook application to interact with texts, whether it be for pleasure or for course work. Similarly, can instructors find innovative ways to incorporate such tools into the classroom?

Some key features currently available:

• Add and browse Texts (via Amazon lookup, or manually)
• Organize your texts into Collections
• Join Groups of like-minded Readers
• Comment on and add Tags to Authors, Collections, Texts, and Groups
• Share your findings with Friends

Some upcoming features (probably by the end of the summer):

• Import/Export feature set
• Citation Generation tools
• Hybrid Searches combining Authors and Readers of Texts
• Text Recommendation system

Are you planning on using Digital Texts 2.0? Please let me know!

Thanks to the Digital Texts 2.0 team and especially to the heroic efforts of Johnny Rodgers, the programmer and designer, and Shawn Day, who has provided outstanding feedback.