E-Lit: The Web and English Literature

Aim of class Discuss week’s activities Outline the history of the Web and its use Hands-on look at four ‘tutorials’ Discussion

Week’s activities Reading? Discussions and analysis Target audience, authority, design Matched with checks for print-based publications Questions re evaluation document?

Internet for English Gateways Electronic texts Individual texts, authors Bibliographic resources On-line tutorials General information pages Any others?

The Internet ‘Internetworking’ Dates back to 1960s - see ‘histories’ on course site Web begins in 1990 with Tim-Berners Lee at CERN laboratories Mosaic released in February 1993 January 1995 ‘Isaac Rosenberg’ launched

Some terminology Browsers and servers HTTP and HTML, moving to XML URL ‘Linking’ Navigational features: back buttons, go menu, history lists, bookmarks...

Hands-on 1 Look at the Voice of the Shuttle Browse collections to see range and type of web sites Discussion

Hands-on 2 Look at the ‘Virtual Seminars’ Look at tutorials 1, 2, 3, 5, and Archive Evaluate using developed criteria Differences in design between the first two and 3 and 5? Target audience(s) - see Tracker, see Tracker for Rosenberg Tutorials on Archives model

Weeks’ activities Write evaluation of web site or CD-ROM (min. 2,000, max. 3,000). Can be a comparison of products Plus electronic version on disk Reading for next week - Sutherland and Condron, Landow (intro), Conner on hypertext structure of a novel, Tosca (speaking on the 11th Feb)