@article {siemens_editor_prototyping_2010,
	title = {Prototyping the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) and Professional Reading Environment (PReE), Past, Present, and Future Concerns: A Digital Humanities Project Narrative},
	journal = {Digital Studies / Le champ num{\'e}rique},
	volume = {2},
	number = {2},
	year = {2010},
	note = {00000},
	month = {sep},
	abstract = {This article looks at the parallel development of two research projects at the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (ETCL): the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) and the Professional Reading Environment (PReE). REKn was created by a group of scholars who both recognized "value of collaboration and centralized coordination," and the opportunities available for aggregating Renaissance primary sources and secondary information in an online database. Given the scale of this project, the "development of a document viewer with analytical and communicative functionality to interact with REKn was a pressing issue." This led to the creation of PReE. PReE in its proof-of-concept build "could display text data in a variety of forms (plain-text, HTML, and PDF) and display images of various formats." The following functions were prioritized in the reconstruction of PReE: efficiency, visual balance, prototyping, and flexibility. In summary, this essay returns to the musing of James Joyce by noting that "REKn and PReE thus far has shown that the errors we encountered on the way truly were "portals of discovery"."},
	issn = {1918-3666},
	url = {http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/view/182},
	author = {Siemens, Ray}
}