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Implementing New Knowledge Environments

A Project Funded by the SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program

The INKE group is comprised of researchers and stakeholders at the forefront of computing in the humanities, text analysis, information studies, usability and interface design. The network is led by Canadian scholars, but includes members from the USA and the UK. It is comprised of those who are best-poised to understand the nature of the human record as it intersects with the computer. Our work is divided into four key research groupings: textual studies, user experience, interface design, and information management.

INKE began as HCI-Book: Human-Computer Interface and the Electronic Book, a Strategic Research Cluster supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). We have just received a grant from SSHRC's Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program.

Our team

Project leader: Ray Siemens (U Victoria); Section leaders: Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia), Alan Galey (U Toronto), Stan Ruecker (U Alberta), Susan Schreibman (Irish Academy), Claire Warwick (UC London)

Researchers: Michael Best (U Victoria), Ann Blandford (UC London), Lynn Copeland (Simon Fraser U), James Cummings (U Oxford), Wendy Duff (U Toronto), Michael Eberle-Sinatra (U Montréal), Janet Fast (U Alberta), Julia Flanders (Brown U), Christopher Fletcher (U Alberta), Dominic Forest (U Montréal), David Gants (U Florida), Bertrand Gervais (U du Québec à Montréal), Matthew Kirschenbaum (U Maryland), Richard Kopak (U British Columbia), Pierre Lévy (U Ottawa), Alan Liu (U California at Santa Barbara), Karon Maclean (U British Columbia), Shawn Martin (U Pennsylvania), David Miall (U Alberta), Brent Nelson (U Saskatchewan), Marc Plamondon (Nipissing U), Milena Radzikowska (Mount Royal C), Geoffrey Rockwell (U Alberta), Lynne Siemens (U Victoria), Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster U), Christian Vandendorpe (U Ottawa), Josée Vincent (U de Sherbrooke), Paul Werstine (King's UC, U Western Ontario), John Willinsky (Stanford U and U British Columbia), Matthew Zimmerman (Irish Academy)

Our partners

Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada, Canadian Century Research Infrastructure, Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Ebrary, Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership, Electronic Literature Organization, Folger Shakespeare Library, Incaa Designs, Internet Shakespeare Editions, Nouvelles technologies, nouvelles textualités, Oxford Text Archive, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, Proquest, Public Knowledge Project, Service BC (BC Provincial Government), Synergies, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, Transliteracies, The Versioning Machine, University of Alberta Press

Our research

2008
  • Warwick, Claire. "Premature Elegies: E-Books, Electronic Publishing and Reading." Chapter 11 in Hornby, S., Glass, B. (ed.) Reader Development in Practice: Bringing Literature to Readers. London: Facet, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-85604-624-4
  • Warwick, Claire, Ray Siemens, Stan Ruecker, Richard Cunningham, Teresa Dobson, Alan Galey, and Susan Schreibman. "Codex Redux: Books and New Knowledge Environments." BooksOnline 2008 workshop at ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008) Napa Valley, California, October 26-30, 2008, New York: ACM, Proc CIKM 2008.
  • Panel: The building blocks of the new Electronic Book. Digital Humanities 2008. Oulu, Finland. 28 June 2008.
    • Siemens, Ray. "A New Context for the Electronic Book."
    • Warwick, Claire. "Humanities Scholars, Research and Reading, in Physical and Digital Environments."
    • Uszkalo, Kirsten, and Stan Ruecker. "A Book is not a Display: A Theoretical Evolution of the E-Book Reader."
  • Warwick, Claire. "Reading and Pleasure: Humanities Scholars and Positive Experiences of Physical and Virtual Information Environments. Models of Partnership in Digital Research, Sheffield University, June 17th 2008.
  • Siemens, Ray. "Inter-discipline and the Study of the Electronic 'Book'." Models of Partnership in Digital Research. Sheffield Hallam U. Sheffield, UK. 17 June 2008.
  • Siemens, Ray. "A Problem 'Finding' the Humanities? Understanding the Electronic 'Book' in an Interdisciplinary Context." ADFL 2008 Seminar West. Stanford U. Stanford, CA. 5 June 2008.
  • Siemens, Ray. "Textual Studies as a Foundation to Understanding the Electronic 'Book' in an Interdisciplinary Context." Thinking Beyond Borders: Print Culture and Digital Culture / Penser sans frontières: Culture de l'imprimé vs Culture numérique. Bibliographic Society of Canada. UBC, Vancouver. 4 June 2008.
  • Siemens, Ray. "There's no place like ["home"]: Digital Facilitation of a SSHRC Strategic Research Cluster Development team for "Implementing the New Knowledge Machine: Human Computer Interaction and the Electronic 'Book'." Joint session of SDH/SEMI and the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. UBC, Vancouver. 15 June 2008.
  • Siemens, Lynne. "The Balance between On-line and In-person Interactions: Methods for the Development of Digital Humanities Collaboration." Joint session of SDH/SEMI and the Canadian Society for the Study of Education. UBC, Vancouver. 15 June 2008.
  • Siemens, Ray. "HCI-Book? Electronic 'Book' Research as Interdisciplinary Enterprise." ETRUS Day. Electronic Text Research. U Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. 12 March 2008.
  • Siemens, Ray. "Imagining the Electronic Book: An Exercise in Interdisciplinarity." Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Texas A&M U, College Station, Texas. 27 Feb. 2008.
  • Siemens, Ray. "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Electronic Book." EXP Lecture Series. UCLA. Los Angeles, USA. 6 Feb. 2008.
  • Siemens, Ray. "Are we really 'Imagining what we do not know'?: Understanding E-book Reading Devices in their Physical, Theoretical and Historical Contexts." Media Applications (SENG 410). U Victoria, Victoria, BC. 24 Jan 2008.
2007
  • Stan Ruecker, Alan Galey, and Matthew Bouchard (seminar leaders). Advanced consultation on "Interface Design for Humanities Visualization." Digital Humanities Summer Institute. University of Victoria. 18-22 June 2007.
2006
  • Siemens, Ray. "A Useful Approach to Understanding the Book and its Electronic Counterparts?" Book Culture Research Group. U Victoria, Victoria, BC. 16 Nov. 2006.
  • Teresa Dobson, Stan Ruecker, and Ray Siemens (seminar leaders). Advanced consultation on "Contexts, Pragmatics, and Theory of E-Books." Digital Humanities Summer Institute. University of Victoria. 19-23 June 2006.
  • Siemens, Ray. "A Useful Approach to Understanding the Book and its Electronic Counterparts? Human-Computer Interaction and Interface Issues." Models of Partnership in Digital Research. Sheffield Hallam U. Sheffield, UK. 8 June 2006.
  • Symposium: Human & Computer Interface and the Electronic Book. UBC. Sylvia Hotel, Vancouver, BC. 6 Jan. 2006. http://www.lerc.educ.ubc.ca/fac/dobson/itst/schedule.html.
    • Vandendorpe, Christian. "Balancing the logical and visual aspects in the displaying of text."
    • Best, Michael. "Serving Many Masters: Navigations in the Internet Shakespeare Editions."
    • Galey, Alan. "Visualizing the Electronic Edition: Web Applications and HCI Development in the Humanities."
    • Swindells, Colin, and Karon E. MacLean. "Aiding Navigation of Knowledge Objects with Haptic Manual Controls."
    • Copeland, Lynn. "Canadian Research Libraries, literature, culture and the digital artifact."
    • Schreibman, Susan. "The Versioning Machine."
    • Gervais, Bertrand. "Reading Across the Broken Line: New Technologies, New Textualities."
    • Siemens, Ray, Karin Armstrong and Eric Haswell. "Understanding Scribal Interactions in Early Manuscript Culture — Electronically, visually."
    • Warwick, Claire. "’And bring your reading to its proper use’ Reading and its uses in humanities research."
2005
  • COCH/COSH Presidents' Panel: "Form and Functionality: Human-Computer Interface and Interaction Issues for the Electronic Book" Ray Siemens and Christian Vandendorpe, organizers and chairs. COCH/COSH 2005. U Western Ontario, ON. 30 May 2005.
    • Ray Siemens, "Imagining the Printed Book and Manuscript in an Electronic Age."
    • Christian Vandendorpe, "Reading on Screen."
    • Teresa Dobson, "In media res: Usability and the Digital Artefact."
    • Alan Galey, "’Brought to naught by little bits’? The Archive and the Search for the Digital Book."
    • Stan Ruecker, "The Electronic Book Table of Contents as a Research Tool."