• Brief history, 1987-present
• Nature: seminar + piazza
• Uses: announcement, offer, call for participation, query, discussion
• Purposes: socio-political (community & reputation building), academic (field building), scholarly (research & publication), intellectual (discovery)
• Ways and means: editorial persona, communal ethos

• Nature: curriculum vitae + poster session + open source
• Uses: display interests, position, duties & responsibilities; pre-/reprint giveaway
• Purposes: socio-political (establish bona fides), academic (exert influence), scholarly-intellectual (circulate ideas)

1. The Analytical Onomasticon <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/onomasticon-sampler/>
   • Literary-critical overview: influence of the poem; the problem of "unity" in the Metamorphoses
   • Computational methodology: identification and markup of names; modelling of literary phenomena
   • Scholarship (vs enabling of scholarship): models and their failures, e.g. a grammar of personification
   • Form of publication: electronic, Web-based
   • Problems and reasons: a history of misadventures and reflections on it
2. Glosses on the Psychomachia <ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/so/>
   • Historical/philological overview: influence of the poem; role of the glosses; current approach to glossing; glosses as commentary (with paradoxical primacy)
   • Computational methodology: image-mapping -> image as commentary; problematic spatial relationship of gloss to text
   • Form of publication: electronic, Web-based
   • Problems: all the expected ones....

    

Any rhetorical act that transgresses normal ontology by investing an entity with a human imaginative component, whether or not the result is anthropomorphic.

1. Implicitly personified: purely fictitious creatures that are ontologically unusual by nature.
2. Explicitly personified, i.e. personifications proper, ascribed to a varying mixture of 10 local factors, variously influenced by one or more of 5 larger contexts.