{"id":337,"date":"2014-06-12T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estoria.bham.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2019-05-09T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:04:05","slug":"building-the-textual-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/2014\/06\/12\/building-the-textual-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Building the textual community"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/06\/crocosmia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/06\/crocosmia.jpg\" alt=\"crocosmia\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/06\/crocosmia.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/06\/crocosmia-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/06\/crocosmia-250x163.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fav.me\/d1mdcck\">Image Credit<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While working on the Estoria project and producing its digital outputs, I hope a side effect is that we can add to the general infrastructure of the &#8216;textual community&#8217;, and in particular the Birmingham and Saskatchewan implementations of that.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a rather longer post here about how the technology of different projects could work together, but it seemed a bit technical, long and specific so I moved it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/zeth.net\/2014\/06\/12\/distributed_global_textual_community.html\">A Distributed Global Textual Community<\/a>, feel free to read it, or not. A taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Versions of data can be written at different sites and shared between them, yet what is considered the \u2018approved\u2019 or \u2018best\u2019 or \u2018current\u2019 version may be different at different sites.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore the key to making textual communities into a distributed system is to separate the sharing of versions from the interpretation of these versions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Professor Peter Robinson, formerly of this parish but now in in Saskatchewan, and leader of the Textual Communities project, is going to write a blog post with his thoughts on the topic, so I will let you know here when it arrives.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Hacking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working on the Estoria project and producing its digital outputs, I hope a side effect is that we can add to the general infrastructure of the &#8216;textual community&#8217;, and in particular the Birmingham and Saskatchewan implementations of that. I wrote a rather longer post here about how the technology of different projects could work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/2014\/06\/12\/building-the-textual-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building the textual community&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-on-the-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/estoriadigital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}