A novel user interface for online literary documents

ABSTRACT

Documents produced in the past usually exist in multiple versions. There is an inherent difficulty in recording and visualising variation between different versions, which is inhibiting efforts to make literature available online. This paper describes a novel document structure, which accurately records variations and facilitates their visualisation.

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Document management and text processing

    • Document preparation

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

    • Interaction paradigms

      • Graphical user interfaces

      • Hypertext / hypermedia

• Information systems

  • Information retrieval