Músgraí WYSIWYM WP: A Simple Plug-in to Add Semantically Meaningful Functionality to the Graphical Editor of the WordPress CMS, with Emphasis on Digitally Archiving Irish and Scottish Gaelic Texts
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Abstract
WordPress, a popular web site creation framework with powerful functionality, is an excellent candidate as a platform for creating on-line digital archives. However, it has certain functionality that works against the rigorous, semantically meaningful recording of data. Consequently, where it is used as an archival platform, semantic fidelity to original artifacts is almost certain to be compromised. This article discusses a tool, Músgraí WYSIWYM WP, which I created to address this problem; specifically in the context of older written and printed Irish and Scottish Gaelic texts, whose orthographies include characters no longer in common use. Color versions of one or more of the figures in the article can be found online at www.tandfonline.com/rinn.
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Information networking is an enabling technology with the potential to integrate and transform information provision, communication and learning. The New Review of Information Networking, published biannually, provides an expert source on the needs and behaviour of the network user; the role of networks in teaching, learning, research and scholarly communication; the implications of networks for library and information services; the development of campus and other information strategies; the role of information publishers on the networks; policies for funding and charging for network and information services; and standards and protocols for network applications.