Introduction: Special Issue, Digital Shakespeare Texts

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...

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Metadata for Digital Media: Introduction to the Special Issue

One of the key problems to be solved to share in formation is the development of metadata that is the data about data While the issue of metadata has re ceived a fair share of attention in conjunction with structured and text data most of the current prac tices in the context of digital media and multimedia data management are ad hoc Metadata assumes more importance when manag ing digital media...

Experiments in Digital Evolution (Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue)

Whether or not the field of artificial life has succeeded in doing what its name suggests, namely synthesizing life from non-living components, is a matter of contention. Clearly, this journal covers a broad range of topics related to the synthesis and simulation of living systems, but only a few articles go so far as to unabashedly study wholly artificial forms of life. The field of digital ev...

Genres of Digital Documents: Introduction to the Special Issue

Purpose – To introduce the special issue on “Genres of digital documents.” While there are many definitions of genre, most include consideration of the intended communicative purpose, form and sometimes expected content of a document. Most also include the notion of social acceptance, that a document is of a particular genre to the extent that it is recognized as such within a given discourse c...