Stephen Gregg
I'm Stephen H. Gregg, a senior lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University and a specialist in the eighteenth-century... The pointing finger was a frequently used symbol of a reader's annotation in Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts appearing in the margins to mark important passages or words... The blog's title is also a pun on the other sense of the 'digital': the way information is processed in digital, as opposed to analogue, technology. So it points to the other interest of mine, digital humanities, which for me also involves a variety of different ways of marking-up texts.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online is twenty years old this year. Is it an ‘old’ digitization?
12 April 2023
Detail from the masthead of the orginal interface (2003-2020) It suddenly struck me that Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is twenty years old this year. Comparatively,...
Reading the changing platforms of Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
13 April 2022
In Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, I analysed the various interfaces to Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), including Jisc’s...
CFP: Isolation and Eighteenth-Century Studies (Defoe Society panel ASECS 2022)
2 June 2021
Isolation is arguably the zeitgeist of the year of COVID-19. Remote working, online learning, shielding, stay-at-home orders, social distancing–all involve some form of isolation,...
Paratext and Metadata: the Interfaces of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
17 September 2020
This post was orginally written for and published by the Eighteenth-Century Paratext Research Network in August 2020. My thanks to Corinna Readioff for permission to re-blog it via...