Pellucid Literature

Portfolio

Also take a look at projects maintained at the XML Jelly Sandwich, where I maintain projects including the Electronic Verse Engineer that require browser support for XSLT 3.x.

Biblioscope

Five texts displayed with a plot of their word roots (lemmata) showing uses and frequency, for philological analysis and thematic study.

Yeats' Airman laid out programmatically

Full-blown Interactive Airman using SaxonJS

Simple Airman (SVG)
The XSLT showing the math (ye ancyente XSLT 1.0)

Jim Surkamp's Constitutional Convention, 2004

For my friend Jim Surkamp and in collaboration with him, I developed this interactive interface providing a visual-narrative, instructor-led 'backbone' for classroom discussion of the US Constitutional Convention (1787).

Charles Woodbury's "Talks with Emerson", 1890 (encoded 2015).

XML displaying in your browser with (yup) XSLT 1.0.

When this breaks we will provide HTML instead. See the XML anyway.

Gustav Fechner's Life After Death: A Manual

Originally from 2011. A demonstration of a conversion pipeline starting with a plain text scan and proceeding with TEI encoding using a mix of automated and semi-automated tagging techniques.

The Sonneteer: a demonstration of structured form.

Ancient history now - a snapshot of a running XML/XSLT demonstration first developed in 2003! but it still holds up.

Die Amsel (Scholia 2002 example).

Reaching even further back, to 2002 - the original work providing the basis for more recent Scholia initiatives.

Also see

The Laminator is my current implementation of a LMNL processing stack, used in some of these projects.
Raventracks.org offers projects focused on language learning (Ancient Greek so far).
The XProc Zone is an XProc demonstration site. It includes all its own XML, XSLT and XProc source code. If you wish to reverse engineer the state of the art (or only learn XSLT and XProc) this might be a place to look at early on.
My repositories on Github — are miscellaneous, certainly.
My business web site is also due for an update.

Terrain

These projects work at an intersection. While they are specifically demonstrations of publishing technology, they are not only that or may not be, inasmuch as neither digital humanities, nor data modeling, is exclusively concerned with publishing.

Goals and non-goals

A goal: providing access on the Internet over a longer term (years not weeks) to finished or abandoned projects in online publishing.
These are not all technology demonstrations, or not only: some of them might be interesting as study objects or study aids.
Not a goal: providing duplicability or replicability — but be my guest!

Strategy

Pellucid Literature is an experiment, but also an archive of prior experiments. As a repository, its organization reflects the discovery that the proper unit of electronic publication is the production framework, applied as it may be to only a single instance, or to a set of instances, whether defined actually or potentially. This is something different from an edition, more like a series. Many of the works here can be considered as single instances of series that are present only by implication.

As an archive, its organization is more familiar: a collection of boxes ... or maybe a collection of collections of boxes and papers mixing folders with files.

Any given project may consist of a single publication, or several, or may offer an evolving aggregative ensemble. Pellucid Literature, or part of it, may not be the same from one week to the next. Or it might sit unchanged. It is designed so it can be abandoned, but it might also suddenly show signs of activity.

Principles

Made to be sustainable and easy to support, to the extent that can be achieved by exercising prudence and foresight.
Not just an archive: in a sense Pellucid Literature is a cellar wherein we can hope to see what ages well.
The goal is not to commandeer either your machine, or your attention, but to provide you with materials for programming or attending to, grist for your mill.

Credits and authorship

Pellucid Literature is an experiment in publishing (and a series of such experiments) by Wendell Piez, since 2015 and before. Its contents may be considered copyrighted unless and where stated otherwise.