Enchanting the Desert

Enchanting the Desert by Nicholas Bauch, published by Stanford University Press in 2016, has been accessioned into the Stanford Digital Repository. This page serves as the public-facing record of that archive. The assets in the archive--project code, text, and media files--remain dark while the publication is available in its live version. The files, whose filenames have been preserved as the object titles (including formats txt, html, css, js, jpg, png, mp3, and pdf), will only be made accessible when the live publication is no longer supported by evolving server and browser configurations.

This archive contains the files that comprise the publication's public-html directory. Each object in the collection is attended by descriptive metadata linking it to associated content that would have appeared alongside it in the original live publication. Also included is the directory location, identifying where in the public-html pathway the file was located. Using this information, a researcher could ostensibly recompile the directory structure and deploy the site in an emulated server and browser configuration matching that of a typical 2016 LAMP setup. The collection also contains pdfs representing the “print” view of all 80 of the project’s essays. These objects are titled to reflect the linear order of the project’s text, although it should be noted that the project offered other options for navigating through the content.

For a description of the user experience and more information about the technical scope and structure of the original publication, please read the documentation file, which can be found at the following URL: https://purl.stanford.edu/xh100rb4269.

For an archived, interactive version of the publication, please view the web archive of the project at https://webrecorder.io/sup/enchanting-the-desert.