Tassie Gniady, Cyber DH Coordinator, UITS Scalar Tutorial Tassie Gniady, Cyber DH Coordinator, UITS

But, most of all, NON-LINEAR! What is Scalar? born digital open source multi-media scholarly publishing platform But, most of all, NON-LINEAR!

How does non-linearity work? Scalar encourages the use of paths and tagging to encourage layering and juxtaposition of various materials. Ex: Ethnic Los Angeles: Comparative Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Media Rich If it has a web address, it can be linked in your Scalar book. Media will still be hosted by the outside server Can be embedded, from these sites Media can be annotated. Tag a poem with a video or a photo with an audio file.

Versioning All versions of a page's history are preserved and publicly viewable by default. Versions may be deleted, if desired. Helps with multi-author books and when working with students.

Customization Scalar is highly customizable, and has an API for development of 3rd party plug-ins: CSS Javascript API Github

Visualizations One of the coolest features of Scalar is the built in visualizations. Visualizations exist for every page with options for a radial, index, path, media, and tag views.

Who is using Scalar? A digital dissertation at Duke, ENDLESS QUESTION: Youth Becomings and the Anti-Crisis of Kids in Global Japan Also at Duke, the Ecology of Networks project A special issue of American Literature, on new media, authored with Scalar

Let's Get Started! create a login: tell me your EXACT NAME find our book: Fun with Scalar pick an internet meme or topic (like cats) create a page insert media create another page make a path!