Sophie workshops: Monday and Tuesday

Will multimedia electronic “books” become an everyday part of the toolkit for scholars and students of the future? Check out the possibilities with “Sophie” at one of two special workshops.

Workshop on Sophie: A New Electronic Book Software from USC’s Institute for the Future of the Book

Presented by Virginia Kuhn, USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy

When:
Monday, Oct. 2, 3-5:00 p.m or
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 3:30-5:00 p.m
Where:
Merrill Hall 214, UWM campus

Sophie is an open-source platform for creating and reading electronic books in a networked environment. It will facilitate the construction of documents that use multimedia in ways that are currently difficult, if not impossible, with today's software. A platform that treats text, image and sound with equal respect, Sophie is the next iteration of the proprietary program. The Mellon Foundation funded TK3’s evolution to the open source Sophie as part of their multimillion-dollar project that endeavors to create high-end tools for digital scholarship. Sophie is being developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book, a think tank which, although located in New York, is a project of the University of Southern California.

Virginia Kuhn has been teaching with TK3 for several years in courses as diverse as Media Literacy and Writing in Cyberspace to Multicultural America. She created one of the country’s only all-digital dissertations in TK3, challenging copyright law and archiving conventions. Her contention is that current copyright and archiving protocols are print-based and are no longer viable in 21st century scholarship. Kuhn earned her doctorate in Rhetoric and Composition right here at UWM before taking a postdoctoral research position at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy. She is currently a Project Specialist, responsible for assessing the last seven years of the IML’s existence, as well as work on a digital portfolio and archiving project with the San Diego Supercomputing Center. Kuhn has been integral in the process of Sophie’s development and will be bringing the very latest version of the program, demonstrating its uses and engaging participants in a hands-on workshop using Sophie.

(Please note: you need only attend one workshop and MAC users may want to bring their laptops to this PC lab, Sophie is a cross platform software).

for more on Sophie go to: http://www.futureofthebook.org/