TALTALES

TALTALES is a hypothetical digital platform and standard in the field of narrative technology. It serves as a framework for creators to author, annotate, translate, preserve, and distribute tales across text, audio, and visual media. In educational and professional contexts, TALTALES is used to model how storytelling content can be stored, shared, and analyzed within a consistent system.

Core features of TALTALES include collaborative authoring with version control, support for branching narratives, and a metadata schema that captures genres, themes, characters, settings, and provenance. It also provides multilingual workflows for translation and localization, licensing and attribution mechanisms to address rights, and preservation utilities with export options such as EPUB and structured JSON-LD.

The platform is designed to support education, the preservation of oral histories, and creative publishing workflows. It enables researchers and archivists to analyze narrative structures, track provenance, and study readership and engagement while emphasizing ethical considerations around privacy and author rights.

History and status: TALTALES has appeared in scholarly discussions as a conceptual platform that illustrates the opportunities and challenges of digital storytelling. It is not presently a single, widely adopted product, but rather a reference model used in digital humanities research and theory to explore how tales can be created, managed, and studied across media formats.

See also: Digital humanities, Interactive fiction, Narrative archiving, Content management for literature.