Comic Vine
Participatory and Idiosyncratic Documentation of a Semantic Platform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2414657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Saint-Louis (0000-0002-0455-6626, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Media + Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2056-3051 • E-ISSN: 2056-3051 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20563051231195544 |
| OpenAlex | W4386259548 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Comic Vine (CV) is a semantic platform focused on documenting published comics. Developers Dave Snider, Ethan Lance, and Tony Guerrero launched the site on December 2006 as part of their first series of proprietary wiki platforms covering various entertainment industries. More than a wiki, CV was at launch a news and review website covering comics and offering discussion forums for users. This article examines how a semantic platform has developed to offer descriptive features catering to one industry (comics), using a proprietary architecture. Using the walkthrough methodological approach, I find that such practices, while not adhering to open-web standards, contribute to architectural design diversity (ADD). Standards in semantic data often push toward common grounds and exchange parameters. The ADD concept presented in this article focuses on highlighting divergent technical schemes in the computing sciences that do not rely on a few standards. I draw mainly on approaches and theories from information studies, grounded in contextual insights from communication studies and human-computer interaction
Art · Citizen journalism · Comics · Data science · Dialog box · Documentation · Entertainment · Semantic Web · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Web Data Mining and Analysis · Wikis in Education and Collaboration · Architecture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |