Scalar Workshop

Jentery Sayers | U. of Victoria | @jenterysayers

A Quick Anatomy Of Scalar

Video

Visualization: Your Book In The Abstract

A View From Above,
A Dynamic Index

Thinking Through
Intersecting Paths

Understanding Content Relationally

Seeing What
References What

RDF: Anything Connects to Anything Connects to Anything

A Tag Is A Page Is
An Annotation

Partnering With
Established Archives

Resisting Boutique Collections Distributed Across Servers

Let Archivists Do
What They Do Best

Building Trust
Through Metadata

Annotating Dynamic Media

Give Audiences Context,
Not Just Snippets Of Content

Annotations Stand Alone
With Their Own URLs

Friendly Authoring and
Editing Pane

WYSIWYG or HTML

Dashboard to Manage Book Properties, Design, and Users

Contributors With Different Privileges/Personas

Slurp Scalar Content
Via Its API

New Possibilities For Anthologies + Curation

Fork The Source Code

Or Use A Scalar Server

Export In A Variety Of Ways

Render Entire Book In XML

Select From A Few Themes

Pick Your URL

Start Using Scalar

Thank You

Jentery Sayers | U. of Victoria | @jenterysayers

–– Special thanks to David Henderson and Matt Lavin. ––