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|story = My interest in ads begun during the time I was reading primary sources, i.e. protofascist periodicals from 1930s England (my dissertation). Most of them were available only in microfilms and I had to photocopy specific pages that I needed for future reading etc. Occasionally, especially if the page size of the weekly or monthly that I was working on exceeded A4, I was forced to photocopy only part of the page—the part which contained the article I meant to use in my research. In time, I have started to notice that when I read the articles that (due to my photocopying) were cut off from the original print layout I get this nagging feeling as if I am missing something, some important information. Why did I need to see the complete page layout of the article that I was reading? What were my eyes looking for, that was missing from my photocopies? The answer to my question leads to my current research: my eyes were missing interrupts, to break the stream of text—advertisements. For now, I think of ads like mongrels: partly narratives, partly images, partly commercial objects. Are ads bibliographical items? Do they serve as context, or should we treat them as texts? I stop here, but just imagine the numerous opportunities to enrich future interpretations once the ad-text relationship can be mapped and deciphered.
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Contents

User Story Creator Identification

This is optional. Provide if you are comfortable doing so.

Name: Ravit H. David

Email: davidravit@rogers.com

Tell us something about your level of study and the type of institutional appointment you hold. 
Choose any of the terms below that apply to you:
* undergrad
* grad
* part-time instructor
* pre-tenure faculty member
* tenured faculty member
* archivist-librarian
* independent scholar
* creative practitioner
* interested citizen

Role: Information specialist (MLS) and independent scholar (PhD)

Institution:

Field of Study/Creative Endeavor: fields of interest include Canadian and British Modernism,periodical studies,content management,digital libraries.

Self-description

Please write a paragraph about your persona as a researcher: your position, your discipline, your general research interests, 
and the extent to which you use computers in your research. 
You may wish to mention particular tools that you use with some regularity.

I try to think like a humanist and work like a librarian

Project

Please provide a short description of the larger project from which this story emerges.

My current project interprets the interaction between advertisements and texts in the topography of digital editions of Canadian Modernist periodicals in order to understand the significance of advertisements for the perceived meanings of texts. My project is also an attempt to achieve interoperability of the ad-text relationship by marking it in text-encoding systems, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML), following the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).



Story

My interest in ads begun during the time I was reading primary sources, i.e. protofascist periodicals from 1930s England (my dissertation). Most of them were available only in microfilms and I had to photocopy specific pages that I needed for future reading etc. Occasionally, especially if the page size of the weekly or monthly that I was working on exceeded A4, I was forced to photocopy only part of the page—the part which contained the article I meant to use in my research. In time, I have started to notice that when I read the articles that (due to my photocopying) were cut off from the original print layout I get this nagging feeling as if I am missing something, some important information. Why did I need to see the complete page layout of the article that I was reading? What were my eyes looking for, that was missing from my photocopies? The answer to my question leads to my current research: my eyes were missing interrupts, to break the stream of text—advertisements. For now, I think of ads like mongrels: partly narratives, partly images, partly commercial objects. Are ads bibliographical items? Do they serve as context, or should we treat them as texts? I stop here, but just imagine the numerous opportunities to enrich future interpretations once the ad-text relationship can be mapped and deciphered.


How broadly do the practices described in this story apply to others in same field, in related fields, etc?
* broadly applicable
* shared by some
* shared by few or none

Scope: My research will focus on Modernist Canadian periodicals.


Does your story describe current research activities that you think CWRC will enhance (present), 
or future research possibilities that you can only dream of now? (future)

Timeline:


Please provide some keywords that will allow us to group or cluster related stories--or aspects of stories. 
Use as many of the ones listed below as relevant or provide your own.
* Aggregate
* Annotate
* Consider
* Discover
* Interact
* Publish
* Archive/Preserve
* Share
* Visualize
* Map
* Historicize
* Edit
* Network
* Collaborate
* Integrated History of Women's Writing in Canada
* Orlando
Keywords:
Are there parts of the story that relate to other CWRC stories? 
Please provide title(s) and link to the relevant story page.

Related Stories: newspapers digitization work (Google)[1]


Are there tools that do some of the sorts of things you'd like to see in CWRC? 
If so, what are they?

Related Tools: Roma [2] OXygen [3]