"Have Always Been Citations symbolic," Mr. Rankin says. "I do not think I need anymore symbolic. I want an actual link ."
For years now the Modern Language Association and other professional groups dedicated to academic research and written presentation of their findings are at the crossroads of how to properly cite other technological means other than the book. While there has been establishing the need to cite specific support after the reference, to which are added different specifications if you cite a movie, book, magazine, etc., The issue of e-books is beginning to cause some panic grows as the number of material available through this medium. Why? Pagination poor, nonexistent, or changed due to the method that follows the device. This applies, of course, to the imprecision with which they cite a passage.
While the problem is understandable, it does seem ironic in this way to tame the half-digital, which works with other rules, other methods of location. And it is a problem half. On the one hand, I find it curious that the literature regarding the precise citation page serves, in a clear case of logocentrism form, as published in codex, ie books and magazines, but little impact or at least practice to mark the exact MINUTES certain references to films or sound files. Simultaneously, the increasing ability to find text files on the network than the codex format, without the use unnumbered pages and paragraphs, creating confusion over the alarming situation that some e-books, and aspiring or substitutes and the throne academic authority, lack of adequate or standard paging. But an e-book page, textual composition depends on a steady cash flow moving and the screen depending on the hosting, no longer seems to be the most appropriate if we want to find a quote on it. Because in reality, the best way to find a date is access to the quotation itself.
The purpose of a page in a print edition is the rapid location of a passage within a technological artifact called codex works divided into areas called pages and text blocks called chapters (with several other smaller divisions) referred to in the table of contents or index. Thus was born the greatest virtue of the book analog digital, non-sequential access to large blocks of content. The immobility of the text in that spatial arrangement in leaves but are mobile and can move allows continuous pagination. But the same would be useless in an audiovisual document, which takes place in a fixed space but continuous flow, divisible only by the succession of his times perfectly programmed. In an e-book reader that uses a screen as a fixed space for both the variable of a video stream to the static printed text, even apologizes interest in paging because the remedy in a way the composition of a page we identified display per page. But deep down it lacks a feature perfect for one reason: if I extend the letter of my device, the start page is altered and ceases to be a page to become more and no longer fits the segmentation of my page with the pages of the book (which schizophrenia and conceptual aberration). It should be adapting to the environment: if I find something in a digital device, or go to the hypertext index to address a particular section, or use the form on the first words of the quote I want, instead of searching the page and then the fragment within the various pages of my site. What is more likely if I quote something it is because before I thought and I selected the text, so that a digital annotation is sufficient (though still imperfect systems) to link the appointment with your text, and therefore, the information I have it already saved.
Returning to the quest for accuracy, which is what makes not only to scholars but to very diverse interest in the continued progress of the search engines and web 3, 4, 5.0-What is really needed is to create a system that allows us to connect (silently through the label text document itself) is not only a website or a page within that site, but the exact spot where my appointment starts where you start reading the text that I mean, where I see the concrete bullet comic, which begins my visual dialogue sequence. Where I want in an interconnected system which access is analog in design. In the network I see only two options: either cite any document in general (the URL of the book, video, song, the document) and then use a search engine after our blind date, or rather, we cite in particular, directly linked to point that concerns us the document in question. This latter requires attention and development, especially because we can not rely solely initiatives such as the New York Times , which are very limited and must be carried out manually and growing self-paragraph that you want to link. Videos on YouTube has a system similar link and embed videos from a point, but not limit to the desired sequence.
Kindle Interestingly, whose software did not use any page, just backtrack on its segmentation locations for your books, which certainly gave an accuracy close to the Bible verses and no doubt further than the page. From now returns to the pages, following the print edition, apparently by popular demand. It is true that in reading groups, if some have the physical book and other digital, have a harder time to agree, but it shows that is not used properly the form of the Kindle. And only read new books, because it really is hard to find when several people have different printed editions of a book and page but that does not confuse ...
But the question remains: the digital thread of the citation on the web is still to himself, and it seems that not even dare to turn the page on the subject. When will it be?
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