“Liberty of the Compiler”: Catalogue Raisonné as Metaphor for Collaborative Design

The IAINBAXTER&raisonnE creatively repurposes the conventions of print catalogues raisonnés to support the development of an experimental scholarly communications platform and collaborative e-research zone. The IB&raisonnE responds to a growing literature on digital humanities that addresses the unique requirements of humanities scholars in an e-research environment. The open-ended and critical approach to the catalog and collection adopted by the IB&raisonnE is inspired, in part, by examples of premodern catalogs by Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774) and Edme-François Gersaint (1694–1750). This paper describes some of the applications to which eighteenth-century compilation practices have been adapted and put to new use by IB&raisonnE developers.http://www.arlisna.org/artdoc/index.html