{"id":861,"date":"2006-12-12T06:53:20","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T06:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2006-12-12T06:53:20","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T06:53:20","slug":"how_would_you_design_the_iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/12\/how_would_you_design_the_iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"how would you design the iraq study group report for the web?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/10\/AR2006121000889.html\">The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The &#8220;Iraq Study Group Report&#8221; paperback could have been wrapped in a brown paper bag, its title scrawled in Magic Marker. It would still sell. This is a book, unlike trillions of others on the market, whose substance and national import sell it, not its cover&#8230;Disproving the adage, this genre of book can indeed be judged by its cover. From the reports on the Warren Commission to Watergate, Iran-contra and now the Iraq war, such books are anomalies for a publishing industry that churns out covers intended to seduce readers, to reach out and grab them, and propel them to the cash register.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iraqreport.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/iraqreport.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"911report.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/911report.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"watergatereport.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/watergatereport.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"warrenreport.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/warrenreport.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nHow would you design an unauthorized <em>web<\/em> edition of the ISG Report? Would you keep to the sober, no-nonsense aesthetic of the iconic print editions of past government documents like the 9\/11 Commission Report or the Warren Commission Report? Or would you shake things up? A far more interesting question: what functionality would you add? What kind of discussion capabilities would you build into it? Who would you most like to see annotate or publicly comment on the document?<br \/>\nThe electronic edition that has been making the rounds is an austere <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usip.org\/isg\/iraq_study_group_report\/report\/1206\/index.html\">PDF<\/a> made available by the United States Institute of Peace. A far more useful resource for close reading of the text was put out by <a href=\"http:\/\/vivisimo.com\/html\/iraqstudy\">Vivismo<\/a> as a demonstration of its new <a href=\"http:\/\/vivisimo.com\/html\/search\">Velocity Search Engine<\/a>. They crawled the PDF and broke it into <a href=\"http:\/\/vivisimo.com\/search?&#038;query=&#038;v:project=ISG-report\">individual paragraphs<\/a>, adding powerful clustered search tools.<br \/>\nThe US Government Printing Office has a slew of public documents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpoaccess.gov\/databases.html\">available<\/a> on its website, mostly as PDFs or bare-bones HTML pages. How should texts of &#8220;national import&#8221; be reconceived for the network?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post: The &#8220;Iraq Study Group Report&#8221; paperback could have been wrapped in a brown paper bag, its title scrawled in Magic Marker. It would still sell. This is a book, unlike trillions of others on the market, whose substance and national import sell it, not its cover&#8230;Disproving the adage, this genre of book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,905,1062,1546,1576,1676],"tags":[2574],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-iraq","category-library","category-publishing","category-reading","category-search","tag-iraq-design-reading-publishing-library-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}