Zebrapedia.org: Distributed Scholarship and Philip K. Dick's Exegesis

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Welcome to the collaborative portal for Zebrapedia, The Zebrapedia Crowdscription Engine, a site devoted to the ongoing transcription, annotation, discussion and editing of Philip K. Dick's Exegesis. This is where we will securely share our transcription and annotation, post queries, and collectively share our insights into the pink light and the writing PKD composed under its influence.

The Zebrapedia Crowdscription Engine is still under development, but we'd like to invite people to look around and send suggestions and bug reports to max@kazoorepair.com. If anything looks broken, hard to understand, or just odd, please let us know! We have a Google Group called Zebrapedia here to discuss tips, tricks, how-tos, insights, thoughts, feelings, whatever you want, etc. Also, some of us hang out, and we'll sometimes post announcements in the Radio Free Valis Satellite Station Facebook Group.

A few features worth highlighting are workset overviews such as is seen here for folder 9, and categories and automatic subject indexing that allows you to easily view every instance of a particular subject is mentioned in the text, such as each time he mentions The Exegesis or a character in one of his published works. You can continue to drill down to more specific references such as Horselover Fat who appears in VALIS.

Many thanks to Ben Brumfield and his tireless work making FromThePage, simply the finest crowdsourcing manuscript transcription software on the planet.

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