Mashing Texts (JiTR)
Mashing Texts is an effort to streamline the exploration of digital resources. By using web mashups as a spiritual guide, Mashing Texts has prototyped a recombinant research environment for document management, large-scale linguistic research, and cultural analysis. In addition to the best-of-show design documents, a working Mashing Texts prototype exists in the form of
JiTR.
The Concept
The rise in accessible information that has accompanied the arrival of the Internet has presented new challenges in harnessing this data. This phenomenon is commonly called "information overload", referring to the difficulty for an individual to process such large amounts of information using current means. The Mashing Texts project seeks to simplify this task by adopting principles of online mashups. It is in doing this that Mashing Texts looks to combine both the creation and exploration of resources into a single, cohesive system.
For further information on the Mashing Texts concept, see the initial Mashing Texts proposal
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The Process and Resulting Personas/Scenarios
Mashing Texts was developed using a Personas and Scenarios model.
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The Design
The primary product to emerge from the project is a design document of how such a tool would function best, given its audience.
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Design of Version 2.0 Notes for the redesign of the interface by Garry Wong
The Prototype
The working prototype of the Mashing Texts concepts is JiTR.
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Explorations and Environmental Scans
Still being written.
Researchers
Other Information
Additional Materials
