3, 2010, 04:43 PM ET
Digital Humanists Unveil New Blog-to-Book Tool
By Sophia Li
A team of 12 digital humanists came together at George Mason
University last week. In seven days, they built a new Web tool that
lets users turn blog entries into an electronic book.
The creators intend their new tool, Anthologize, to make preparing a
polished product—potentially for publication—a simple, quick process.
Anthologize is the product of the One Week, One Tool program, run by
George Mason's Center for History and New Media and supported by the
National Endowment for the Humanities. The program brought together
people from a variety of disciplines, including professors in the
humanities, instructional-technology staff, and Web developers, for a
hands-on learning experience.
The new tool, Anthologize, is a free, open-source WordPress plug-in
that lets users organize and edit work from one blog or from many.
Users can then export the content as a printer-friendly PDF or in
other digital formats. The tool's creators have proposed several
potential uses for Anthologize. For example, instructors might compile
work from student blogs, or scholars could collect pieces on related
topics and edit them into a digital publication similar to a journal.
Still, the new plug-in is not perfect: Its creators acknowledged that
when they revealed Anthologize online on Tuesday afternoon. They plan
to continue refining it over the course of the next year, and they
encourage its users to join in, said the center's managing director,
Thomas Scheinfeldt, in the online announcement.
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