Digital Attraction

“Digital Attraction: from the real to the virtual in manuscript studies.”
The archaeologist Christine Finn arguments in the BBC radio programme about how the digital technology change the way thatthe writer’s working in the handwriting and the impact of this new technology. Christine Finn mention a Fay Weldon and explain how that writer change the pen and the paper for a mouse and monitor, andhe discover that this digital method is cheaper than the write method, it is easy to change the history this method change the way that he write his novels.
In the field of the textual genetics hasa new conclusions about the new questions that the scholars has ask about the digital technology, but not all the writers are agree with this methods because do not like the computers. Ted Hughesis one of this person, he prefer the typewriter on the contrary Rushdie´s or Weldon’s archive do not like the typewriter. In the British Library has a poet’s Devon home in digital high- resolution ina 360° panoramic picture.
The digital curation and conservation has his own challenges, and one is in the moment that the person on the computer, it can changes the day, or something in the archive.The British Library use a “write-blocker” this is a system that protect the archive and the curator decided what archive be publish in that moment. In this moment the relationship between scholarsand curator-conservator is very important because the high-resolution digital photography and the computing help the arts and humanities to search a new investigation in different areas.
In thearticle mention a Chronicles of Jean Froissart and the rest of the article is focus in it. In this summer the book I, book II and book III of Chronicles is illustrate with a high- resolution photographs.Their contents could be look in interactive touch screens, using a software and the name of that it is Kiosque, the Chronicles is the most important prose in French that mention the war of French...