CiteULike, GoogleBooks & GoogleReader (A6)

With regard to CiteULike, it is a free online service, which has as a purpose to organize academic publications. Nowadays, it is run by Oversity; however, it has not always been like that since it was created in the year 2004. This system is commonly known as the first Web-based social bookmarking tool created for meeting [...]

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Wikis & blogs (A5)

Despite being both websites, whose main purpose is to allow the easy edition and creation for the user, there are some differences between them, as I will now explain: As regards the wikis, these allow the editing and creating process through a browser, by using either a text editor known as WYSIWYG or  a simplified [...]

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“TeX”, “Scribe” & “GML” (A4)

TeX is a typesetting system, designed and written by Donal Knuth, which once connected with the METAFONT language had two goals; on the one hand, to allow anybody to produce high-quality books and, on the other, to create a system that gae the exact same results on all computers, nowadays and in the future.  Scribe [...]

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Markup languages (A4)

A markup language is a system by which a text is, in some way, made syntactically distinguishable from that text. This is exemplified by editors’ instructions written with a blue pencil on authors’ manuscripts or typesetting instructions. Despite being the “HTML”  (one of the document formats on the World Wide Web) the most known, there [...]

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Digital libraries (A3)

Due to the development of the new technologies, not just ebooks have been created, but also digital libraries -where, as the name mentions, collections are stored in digital formats, being accessible by computers-. To this extent, I would like to draw your attention to some of the most relevant libraries; “The Google Book Search” and [...]

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The main differences between the “ebook” and traditional books (A2)

Commonly known as “ebooks” -term that stands for electronic books-, these new devices are catching on many people according to recent surveys, which show that in the last years, there has been a marked increase in the number of units sold. Nevertheless, many people still remain reluctant to these devices since, despite sharing the same [...]

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The author’s role after the creation of the hypertext (A1)

Along the centuries, the role of the author has developed and changed dramatically. Whereas before the invention of the printing, the relevance of the author was minimum -since, among other things, the stories were transmitted orally and therefore there was not a single creator-, the importance of this started to become more important, reaching nowadays’ levels. However, with the creation [...]

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