WriTerra (formerly Cvrkut) is an ecosystem for literates (literary writerts). It helps writers/translators to write creatively, organize their work and augment the process with stylometric analasis, knowledge references, etc.

It supports social processes between writers, where they can help each other, ask and provide suggestions on their work.

It helps to understand better the process and motives of writing by writers participating and working with literary scholars.

The system was reimplemented in its basic form in three variations: 1) backend generated PHP, 2) frontend framework + backend PHP, 3) frontend framework + backend node.js.

Currently we are migrating it to the more advanced collaboration framework: Colabo.Space. In the meantime, you can see the usecase diagram and the UI-diagram.

Cvrkut Wireframe (UI-Diagram)

The use-case diagram of WriTerra

The "Living Word" project is a fusion of the digital ecosystem and the digitisation of literary activities in the physical world. The goal of the project is giving life to contemporary literary words and the creation of digitised and digital (digitally-born) content in an innovative way, which "The Living Word" project uses to underlines the fundamental difference between the contemporary creative work and cultural heritage.

This project will set a writer as an active participant at the center of the digital ecosystem in dialogue with readers and literary scholars. The internationally recognised digital systems Bukvik and LitTerra will enable the writer with:

I) conventional digitisation of part of their literary work,
II) interpretive digitisation (interactive visualisation, stylometry, multilingual alignment)
III) Digitisation of the author's process and genealogy of the writer's work

The innovativeness of the project is in its "sustainable digitalisation" according to the principle of crowdsourcing, which will stipulate the authors themselves, motivated by the feedback satisfaction system (environment for creative writing, visualisation, stylistic analysis, promotion), to digitalise and digitise their own creative corpus.

LitTerra is a world of literature; a place where readers can explore books and walk through them. It is a place where readers are travelers again, where writers are guides, and scholars are explorers again.

LitTerra augments books in multiple ways, spatial, temporal, entities, writing stylistics, character analysis, intertextual; interactions between books and writers, among others.

LitTerra is project in progress. We are currently in the process of migrating our offline tools to online WEB service and scaling the service to high capacity. In the parallel, LitTerra team is conducting research in the LitTerra related field and incorporating the findings into the LitTerra service.

LitTerra wouldn't exist without Bukik

NOTE: We are migrating our servers to the Oslo University Cloud, please bear with us, they will come shinier back

A bit of the LitTerra history: Our first book from the Gutenberg project presented as part of the LitTerra platform.

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS by JULES VERNE
English translation by George Makepeace Towle (1873)
57 Original illustrations by Alphonse-Marie de Neuville and Léon Benett (1873)

The video of the book's first representation at a legacy platform:

Bukvik is an online collaborative system for DH (Digital Humanities) experiments designed with a focus on an adaptive approach to a researcher community needs, discussion, reproducibility, versioning, results-visualization, and open+agile research.

What is Bukvik? A beech grove in Serbian. A derivative from the Russian “bukva”, meaning a letter, and a rather obvious pun on the English word "book".

It is also a way to better see through the forests of letters while keeping an eye on the trees they consist of. It is the result of a collaboration between a team of computer scientists and literary scholars.

More details: http://bukvik.litterra.net/

NOTE: We are migrating our servers to the Oslo University Cloud, please bear with us, they will come shinier back

Conceptual diagram of a research flow in Bukvik

Bukvik Infographic