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Lewis Notes
The principal concern of Lewis-Notes is to provide the primary operational framework for digital on-line publishing and production efforts. Lewis Notes is an operational, web-based extension of the Lewis Micropublishing framework and its extension is founded on the ideal of the Internet--provisioning of correct information anywhere, any time, in any amount, in any depth and breadth, of any quality and detail, to anyone.
There is increasing realization and widening awareness that digital on-line publication and literacy skills and standards on the web are fundamentally different from the conventional skills and traditional standards that governed publication of hard-copy texts in the past. The ability to hyperlink multiple documents together, to provide built-in cross-referencing and foot-noting, to provide rapid syndication and to retireve automatically updated content remotely, combined with the challenges of writing and reading from a monitor, the relative ease, lack of expense and reach of publishing directly to the web, has drastically and permanentaly altered our notions of what a text should be like.
We take the notion that there is no longer great need to publish hardcopy texts--that such publication is relatively expensive, fundamentally wasteful and inefficient. The process requires tremendous logistical resources that tend to be in the structure of the large expensive and better devoted to other efforts and frameworks.
At the same time, digital publishing within a central framework on the web provides the capacity for the introduction of other facilities--for instance, on-line reference systems, which may in theory be vast and unlimited.
It is recognized that the ease with which practically anyone can publish to the web any kind of content or document means that there is a fundamental loss in quality and reliability of what gets thus produced. If anyone can publish anything, practically anyone does. There is therefore a need for maintaining a kind of quality control and quality of "purpose" in digital publishing and e-publications.
At the same time, it is recognized increasingly that there are new forms and qualities of publication and publishing available upon the web, many that allow for interactive involvement of the reader as participant, and in digital format that were never possible before the time of the virtual world. Computer based game software has swept the publishing markets clean of all that came before, and is finding extensive application in the sciences and other areas of technology.
Even in otherwise static and passive e-text publications, as are mainly represented at this time on this website and on the Lewis Micropublishing website, there is still considerable room for creative play and imaginative, or should I say, inventive innovation. The rise of blogging and predominance in popularity of content management systems that are server side programming interfaces, demonstrates the extent to which human interest in on-line content is headed towards more dynamic structures and frameworks, even for otherwise static text. Publication of newsletters, on-going journals, rss snippets, etc., provides even more playroom for how we express ourselves, what we talk about, and how we convey it in some kind of print or published form.
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