Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this module you should

  1. Understand what the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is and why it’s used by digital scholarly editors
  2. Be able to incorporate IIIF images into a web page in a variety of ways

Dates and Activities

Monday, March 31

Before class

  • Read Walden, “Brute Neighbors,” “House-Warming,” and “Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors.”
  • Review Attributes, Links, Images in the “Internet and Web” module.
  • As you did for our 3/26 meeting, leave a comment in the margin of any part of Walden assigned for 3/31 that makes you curious to know more about how that passage might have changed during Thoreau’s composition process.

In class

  • We’ll discuss Walden and play with incorporating images into web pages.

Class work: In your folder for 3-31, share your journal file for the day with notes on incorporating images into web pages.

Wednesday, April 2

Before class

  • Read Walden, “Winter Animals,” “The Pond in Winter,” “Spring.”
  • Read IIIF images.
  • In the one of the chaptets of Walden assigned for 4/2, leave a comment in the margin of any description of nature that resonates with your own experience of nature—for example, any description that makes you think, “I’ve heard that!” or “I’ve seen that!” or “I know what he’s talking about but I never thought about it that way!”

In class

  • We’ll discuss Walden and play with IIIF images.

Class work: In your folder for 4-2, share your journal file for the day with notes on working with IIIF images.

Friday, April 4

Before class

  • No additional reading.

In class

  • We’ll continue working with IIIF images.

Class work: In your folder for 4-4, share your journal file for the day with reflections on your own composition process. How does it compare to what you’re seeing of Thoreau’s composition process? On a scale from “totally scattershot” to “highly organized and intentional,” where would you place your own composition process? If it’s anything other than “totally scattershot,” what are some of the things you do to make your own process at least somewhat organized and intentional? What role do you think technology has played in the difference between Thoreau’s process and your own? Comparing Thoreau’s process to your own, what aspects of revision seem to have been relatively untouched by technological change?