Writing technology

[MarcelloT]

I am a developer of Internet ideas and interactive websites, and I find that Literature as a whole has not taken advantage of technology. In spite of useful tools like this Forum, it is not yet possible:

- to grab a play and add animation,
- to grab a novel and map the emotions of the readers in each passage,
- to keep a publicly annotated version of a copyrighted work
- to illustrate a text with images
- to illustrate images with text

My main obstacle to develop these ideas into websites are:

- copyright restrictions --> can be avoided by some new type of license
- lack of funding --> can be solved by partnering

I have found software that can be used to 'synonymize' a text and somehow avoid plagiarism, but it seems a partial solution for the main obstacles above.

Is there a place where these discussion has been already started?

Thanks for your ideas and feedback!

Marcello
:confused:

[Virgil]

I am a developer of Internet ideas and interactive websites, and I find that Literature as a whole has not taken advantage of technology. In spite of useful tools like this Forum, it is not yet possible:

- to grab a play and add animation,
- to grab a novel and map the emotions of the readers in each passage,
- to keep a publicly annotated version of a copyrighted work
- to illustrate a text with images
- to illustrate images with text

My main obstacle to develop these ideas into websites are:

- copyright restrictions --> can be avoided by some new type of license
- lack of funding --> can be solved by partnering

I have found software that can be used to 'synonymize' a text and somehow avoid plagiarism, but it seems a partial solution for the main obstacles above.

Is there a place where these discussion has been already started?

Thanks for your ideas and feedback!

Marcello
:confused:
I can't answer your question, but out of the useful tools you mention, the one I think that would add something to a forum such as this would be:

- to keep a publicly annotated version of a copyrighted work

I don't even care about the copyrighted part. I'm don't want anyone to infringe on copyrights. This would be nice for works that have exceeded copyrighted time.

[MarcelloT]

...and also:

- to write a different ending for a story
- to shorten a lengthy story, or to enlarge a short one
- to borrow a character and write a sequel or something else
- to produce web-enabled versions from paper writings
- to write new chapters following reader's wishes

One of my favourite writers once said: "I publish my materials just to avoid modifying them forever". Only that he did not have the Web...

[soport]

Written information has always be easier to organize that images.
I am a Fantasy Art fan, and I would like to be able to mix images with text. How could that be done?

[MarcelloT]

You need an online database, like MySQL plus PHP scripting. Some programming will be necessary. In which format are your texts?

[soport]

My texts are associations with the images. I intend to write a phrase on what the image suggests to me. Then, to look that phrase into Google and extract relevant text. Each image can be a thread in a forum like this.

You mention a synonymizer software that can be used to avoid plagiarism. I will try that.

The whole thing would be used as a creativity tool for me and my students, in order to get a story out of an image.

Will that be enough?