Disciplinary Impact and Technological Obsolescence in Digital Medieval Studies 1

Digital projects are inevitably doomed to early irrelevance and undeserved lack of disciplinary impact. Projects which have proven less able to avoid technological obsolescence have nevertheless often had an effect on our understanding of our disciplines, and, in the problems they have encountered, can offer us some cautionary lessons. This chapter considers the nature of the problems faced by digital medieval projects that have achieved more limited impact or aged quickly than the intrinsic quality of their scholarship. It discusses the positive lessons to be learned from digital medieval projects that have succeeded in avoiding technological obsolescence or looking ahead to examine trends that future digital projects will need to keep in mind. The widespread adoption of XML, XSLT, Unicode, and similarly robust international standards on the internet means that scholars developing new digital projects now can produce content using markup as flexible and sophisticated as anything possible in SGML.

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  Open Access•Roger S Bagnall, Sebastian Heath•The Journal of Roman Studies•2018

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