Books have historically been constrained by the limitations of
print medium, and even digital books are usually just electronic
replicas of bound volumes. Stanford University's Spatial History
Project has partnered with developers at Open Sourcery to create
an online augmentation to Richard White's latest publication,
Railroaded, that provides an interactive medium for readers to
access and explore the collection of over 2,000 footnotes,
sources, visualizations, and downloadable data files. This
format holds the potential to give readers a way to access and
manipulate the material in the footnotes and to give longer life
to the book itself. The dynamic nature of the site will allow
White and his team to continue to annotate footnote discourse
and develop visualizations as analyses and insights evolve. In
addition to its direct benefit to Railroaded, we believe that
this site represents a new genre of hybrid digital publishing
and are excited to share this Drupal installation profile with
the open source and s