Poster proposal for CSDH 2020
Our poster will be accompanied by a live demo of Stylo, a text editor developed by the Canada Research Chair on digital textualities. Stylo is a WYSIWYM text editor designed to meet an urgent scientific need in SHS: giving researchers the ability to structure their text while writing it.
Currently the structuration of the documents is done at the end of the editorial process, the existing word processing software (Kirschenbaum 2016, cop. 2016) excludes the author from this semantic conception process (Dehut 2018). However, the meaning depends on the writing markup (Goody 1979; Vandendorpe 1999). In the academic context of SHS, it is essential that the researcher may participate in the editing of his research. Stylo is a tool that brings together authors and publishers in the same writing area. Following the Media and Software studies, our approach participate to the reflection and the stakes of digital tools on the diffusion, legitimization and production of knowledge (McLuhan 2013; Galloway cop. 2004).
Based on modular, lowtech and standard editing tools and formats, such as Markdown, BibTeX, Pandoc, Hypothes.is and LaTeX, Stylo integrates in a single interface the best practices in terms of web-based writing and publishing. By implementing existing formats and conversion technologies already in use by the community, it allows a free flow of documents that are not locked in a particular format. Stylo was conceived to offer a complete and continuous workflow from writing to publishing, avoiding loss of data and meaning between the various editing stages. It gathers functionalities such as sharing, versioning, change tracking, references management, reviewing annotation, multi-format export, meta-datas aligned with authorities (LOC, ORCID, …) and inline semantic markup.