[KS] first issue of Korean Histories

[Javier Cha]

I, too, love the new journal. Please keep more great articles coming!

Re: Dr. Maliangkay
We don't need to limit our imagination to page numbers, which is,
after all, a product of the codex-based print media. One viable
alternative might be the paragraph system:
http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/1/1/000007.html might serve as a
model.

As for the possibility of online HTML publication, font type, size and
style are extremely easy to adjust using CSS. The journal editors can
offer a variety of styles to the readers, and the style and formatting
of the article can be transformed on the fly. Or the reader can load a
custom stylesheet of his or her choice. Most web browsers today offer
this feature.

HTML and CSS are pure text, and hence are extremely compact in size.
There would be minimal difference in file size between an
efficiently-coded HTML and PDF.

I personally would like to make two feature requests to the editors:
1) open-format ebook version of individual articles (i.e., in ePub);
and 2) publish the journal under a Creative Commons license. Currently
in East Asian studies, the only journal that does so is Sino-Platonic
Papers edited by Victor Mair. Korean Histories can position itself as
a trendsetter!

Javier



On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Roald Maliangkay
<Roald.Maliangkay at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Dear Frank and others,
> I think the new journal looks fantastic, and I think that having some forum
> there is a really good idea, but there are huge issues with real
> Wordpress-like on-line journals, one of which is the referencing (no page
> numbers = mucho dolor), the fonts (limited..., and no, let's not start the
> romanisation debate here) and the lay-out. Another problem is the potential
> modem-burning size of some of the articles. For those articles that do use
> film snippets, for example, the true on-line delivery format would be
> perfect, but for those of us who do not have South Korea-like Internet, it
> would still be great to have basic-quality PDFs for download (avoiding
> freezing up systems). I am sure the editors will still be developing the
> different formats of delivery, but for me personally, having easily
> reference-able (bad English, I know), nicely laid-out PDFs is great.
> Just my two cents worth...
> Roald
>
>
> On 6 Jan 2010, at 12:39, Frank Hoffmann wrote:
>
>  The editors welcome submissions and feed-back
>
> Congratulations! Just one short note: It would be so much nicer if "on-line"
> would really mean that the journal is online -- in the sense that we can in
> addition to downloading (not so important) actually read articles in a web
> browser. They could easily be put onto the Web using WordPress or a similar
> program. PDF files are not exactly a product of the spirit of the Internet
> (and our times as such), rather a technical hangover, a digital remake and
> exact imitation of paper publishing, doing nothing but providing paper
> publications in digital format, so that they can be distributed for
> printing. This process inevitably imitates all the hierarchies, conventions,
> and limitations that come with paper publishing. Furthermore, there is no
> FORUM at the journal's website, and therefore no way to respond to the
> published articles, no way to get into a creative dialogue. What then is the
> difference to a paper journal? Your published announcement at least points
> into another direction. This conventional frame of publishing then seems to
> -- quite completely -- undermine the journal's approach. I would therefore
> suggest to change the format of publication and to open your site up for a
> public discussion.
> Best wishes,
> Frank
>
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> Frank Hoffmann
> http://koreaweb.ws
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> School of Culture, History and Language
> College of Asia & the Pacific
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> The Australian National University
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