Yeats’s Digital Identity: Q&A with Web Editor Neil Mann

Abstract

This interview with Dr. Neil Mann provides insight into his involve- ment with digital humanities and his interest in using experimental hypertext-like format to leverage its communicative possibilities. Dr. Mann, author and web-manager of , reveals why he was drawn to work on W.B. Yeats’s opus, with a particular attention to A Vision. He discusses his experience with approaching Yeats in the digital environment of a website, including how he first structured the site and its current possibilities of development, as well as the content organisation and cross-references. Dr. Mann also speaks about the various issues concerning digital scholarly communication, from work-in-progress models, through copyright and creative commons matters, to digital identity concepts.