What is an electronic text?

I came across a thoughtful blog entry responding to somethng I wrote with Ian Lancashire about electronic texts and text analysis in WRT: Writer Response Theory ª Forms of Electronic Texts.

The author, Christy Dena, points out the focus on material characteristics (that an e-text is an electronic version of a written work etc.) and inconsistencies. To be honest I wasn’t trying to come up with a typology with a “continuity of variable.” I was trying to describe the variety of things we call e-texts. Time for a better definition and asking whether we want to use “electronic text” for anything that can be read and has/had an electronic form.

UK Arts and Humanities ICT Map

Note: This site and map has since been moved. You can find an archived version of the July 2006 ICT Map here.

The Arts & Humanities Research Council in the UK has put together a great introduction to the main providers of support for ICT (Information and Communication Technology), see ICT Map for Arts and Humanities Research and the diagram at ICT Map for Arts and Humanities Research. We need one for Canadian support to guide people through.