We're exploring new modes of digital publishing, to better present new research and reach different audiences.
JW Power, Danseurs (Dancers), 1934, oil on canvas, 81.5 x 100.3 cm, JW Power Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, PW1961.70.
A range of digital projects are currently underway at Power Publications.
Each project considers the type of relations that form within a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural research project and brings them to the fore in its presentation: from annotating objects and tracking their movements across time and space, to the spatial connections that were explored in a site-specific research project across Southeast Asia, or, the collaborative and networked nature of an art history developed within and alongside an international women’s art collective.
These projects are part of our expansion beyond traditional hard copy publishing. They are also each contributing to a larger goal: to develop an open-source, interoperable research communication infrastructure that combines the visualisation tools of the digital humanities with the media-rich content and immersive interfaces of digital storytelling.
The ‘Power Drupal CMS’ will be made available as an open-source tool for researchers and publishers to develop digital projects that will allow management of research data, texts, images and other media in the back end, and to compile these for a public-facing digital edition. The themes will allow researchers to use rich visualisations such as maps, network graphs, and embedded video, audio and 3D models. Each project presents knowledge in different ways, testing the boundaries of the academic text.
Our hope is that a more generative, creative and iterative practice of research communication can lead to greater equity amongst and fluidity between systems of knowledge.
