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	Occasional Series, Number 1

Victorian Periodicals Hypertext Project

Contributions from
Margaret Beetham, Amanda Bowens, Danielle Fuller, Lynette Hunter, Farath Arshad, Colin Parrott, Peter Ward

Edited by
Lorna Hughes and Stuart Lee

Oxford: CTI Centre for Textual Studies, 1994. Pp.iv + 50. ISBN 0 9523301 1 3.

This is the first in an occasional series of CTI publications. This series will include a number of monographs on specialist applications on computing in the teaching of the humanities.

The Victorian Periodicals Hypertext Project is a highly successful example of a collaborative and interdisciplinary initiative using hypermedia. The project was based at the Faculty of English, Leeds University, and brought in other participants from the University's Information Modelling Programme (IMP) department, as well as Leeds Polytechnic and Manchester Metropolitan University.

This project aimed to introduce students to Victorian periodicals within a hypermedia context and attracted a great deal of interest. This monograph by the developers describes the project, its background, funding, and evaluation, in detail. We hope this proves to be a useful reference document for anyone considering embarking on a similar project using hypermedia in teaching.

Contents

Editors' Introduction

Authors' Preface

The view from the humanities

• Issues: why we did it
• Stage one: making connections with computer experts and funding
• Stage 2: beginning the research
• Stage three: research assistance
• Stage four: preparing for the first demonstration
• Stage five: elaborating the multimedia hypertext
• Stage six: dealing with the problems
• Stage seven: evaluation by experts
• Stage eight: student use

Undergraduate students as authors

• Definition of the task
• The progress of the project
• Conclusion
• Map of the final structure
• Flowchart

Hints for student users on the women's magazine project

• Starting out
• Searching for material
• Records, maps, and structure
• Scanning
• Chunking text
• Screens

The view from the Information Modelling Programme (IMP)

• Introduction
• Terminology
• The central issues and questions
• A multidisciplinary approach
• The aims of the VPHT project
• The pilot project
• Implementation
• Technical details of the development
• Discussion
• Glossary of terms
• Diagram I: outline of the Victoria Periodical projects
• Diagram II: flow of information from domain experts to target users

Technical annex

• Development and delivery platforms and applications/system development environments
• 'Future proofing', genericity, and interoperability

User manual: instructions for using the system

• The system in general
• Mouse
• Hypertext

The socializing of context: methodolgies for hypertext

• Grounds for discussion
• Storytelling: hypertext and the printed book
• Hypertext narratives: case studies

Bibliography

• Humanities reference bibliography
• Victorian Periodicals contents bibliography
• Technical bibliography

Copies can be ordered from Dr Michael Fraser, CTI Centre for Textual Studies at a cost of £10.00 (+ postage & packing per copy: £1.00 in UK, £2.00 in Europe, £3.00 rest of world). Please make cheques payable to, 'Oxford University Computing Services' (invoices cannot be issued).

This document last modified: 30 March 1999

The URL of this document is http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/occas/victoria.html