SETTING UP A WORKSTATION FOR VICTORIAN STUDIES AND PRODUCING MULTI-MEDIA TEXTS

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1. From NACSIS, I have launched the Japan Dickens Fellowship official homepage. This forms the basis of an on- line workstation for Victorian independently.2. I have digitized the Fellowship's bulletins and the members' articles for the workstation, especially in PDF, in which markup tools facilitate the production of on-line journals and multi-media texts.3. For those members who cannot attend the Fellowship's conference, I have reproduced it as a virtual one on the Web. There they may experience it vicariously, with PDF files for handouts, and MP3 files for presentations.4. To assist with a better, under standing of Victorian wording and social background, I have digitized the first edition of A Christmas Carol, with colored illustrations by John Leech, and with explanatory notes. The digitized text has been changed into a multi-media text with image, sound, and video files in order to encourage original interpretations.5. The embodiment in the multi-media form of digital audio circuits has encouraged a reader, surfing on the worldwide Web to return, consciously or unconsciously looking for the same theme, to the text itself. This is why the Web is called a large-scaled text - i.e., a text susceptible to very wide readings.6. I have set those fill-out forms in multi-media texts that allow a reader to submit his or her interpretation. Thus, the reader can not only browse the text, but also collaborate activity in producing it.