CWRC research papers

The history of collaboration in relation to writing is rich and varied; all writing performs as collaboration. The digital context in particular offers opportunities for collaboration in new modes,...

Academic prototyping, like ethnography or bench studies, is a way of producing new knowledge about an idea. It is a phase in a critical process. In fact, it is perhaps better to speak of academic...

This is the story of how one linked data fangirl finally got her hands dirty. The Canadian Writer’s Research Collaboratory (CWRC) is a CFI funded initiative to establish an online infrastructure...

This article describes PlotVisML, a simple, flexible XML schema for encoding literary narratives that was developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers in literary studies, interface design...

Advancing new ways of doing scholarship within the field of modernist studies has driven us to explore novel approaches to publishing, and demonstrated the utter necessity of partnerships to make...

This article presents original research on the mainstream Anglophone Canadian magazines Chatelaine and the Canadian Home Journal and the way in which they constructed a particular Canadian identity...

This article addresses the design of a dynamic repository interface to support numerous scholarly activities. Starting with the four fundamental functions associated with persistent storage —...

Paper offers a summary of technical challenges associated with the translation of content from rich XML in a boutique digital humanities project - the Orlando Project - into RDF.

At the founding of the non-profit partnership in 1994, Iter interpreted its mandate to...

Islandora is an open-source software framework developed since 2006 by the University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library. The Islandora framework is designed to ease the management of...

The article consist of two parts, one of which focuses on Working across domains and disciplines (digital tool development and partnerships it encourages). The other is entitled Matching funding to...

From the 1920s to the 1960s, anglophone Canadian magazines such as Chatelaine, Maclean’s, and Canadian Home Journal printed a wealth of middlebrow fiction attuned to contemporary problems. Largely...

Between 1938 and 1942, border-crossing Norwegian-Canadian author Martha Ostenso published three short stories in Chatelaine magazine, stories that engage in complex ways with themes of femininity,...

This article asks researchers of Canadian writing to refiect on collaboration as...

This poster outlines the strategies for the collaborative infrastructure development, still in progress, of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (www.cwrc.ca), and the results of these...

It is sometimes said that the academy today is undergoing rapid change, and that one of the changes we have been experiencing is in the rate of dissemination of research results. Our previous...

In this article, we provide a discussion of the concept of visual interactive workflows, how they relate to our previous work on structured surfaces, and how they have been adapted to experiments...