Elena Pierazzo, Digital Scholarly Editing : Theories, Models and Methods

What textual scholarship needs now are practical reports “from the editorial trenches”, concludes Paul Eggert in his review of David Greetham’s Theories of the Text (Eggert 2005, 90). Elena ­Pierazzo’s Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods, the first comprehensive analysis of the field as it has developed in the past decades, can be considered an answer to that call. However, ­Pierazzo has much more to report than intelligence from the battlefield. She places numerous accoun..

Interfacing Literary Genesis

This article examines ways in which the principles and scholarship of genetic criticism can be communicated to an audience of non-experts, explored through the means of a case study. This takes shape in the Brulez Digital Exhibit (BDE), a result of a collaboration between different parties involved in the GLAM sector and led by the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at Antwerp. The digital museum exhibit conveys scholarship on the manuscripts of the work Sheherazade of Literatuur als Losprijs (1932) by Raymond Brulez, and has been integrated into the permanent exhibition space of the Letterenhuis, the literary archive and museum in Antwerp. The paper discusses what could be gained or learned from a collaboration with such partners during the development. It further explores the classification of the BDE as a form of interface and scholarly output of a text editing project. In conclusion, it shows how we can find new and more effective ways to increase the dissemination and outreach of the textual genetic research

Refining our Concept of ‘Access’ for Digital Scholarly Editions: A DiXiT Panel on Accessibility, Usability, Pedagogy, Collaboration, Community and Diversity

The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) is a Marie Sk odowska-Curie EU-Funded 7th Framework Programme. During the grant period (2013- 2017), twelve Early Stage Research Fellows and five Experi- enced Research Fellows engage with questions and tensions surrounding the evolving theory and practices of digital scholarly editing. As our projects draw to a close we are reflecting critically on how we have examined and contributed to the changing nature of digital textual scholarship. With access being such a pertinent issue to the field of digital textual scholarship, we hope to stimulate a lively and productive conversation with the audience around these interrelated themes

Inclusive Design and Dissemination In Digital Scholarly Editing: Survey Questions

In 2017, the authors designed a survey titled Inclusive Design and Dissemination in Digital Scholarly Editions. The survey was designed and hosted using SurveyMonkey (https://www.surveymonkey.com) and was open from 1 July to 31 November 2017. The survey received 219 responses, 109 of which completed every required question in the survey – resulting in a completion rate of 49,7%. At the 2017 ADHO conference in Montreal (Canada), the authors participated in a panel discussion on the subject, where they discussed some preliminary survey results (Sichani et al. 2017). A more detailed treatment of the complete survey results will be published Variants 14 (https://journals.openedition.org/variants/), the journal of the ESTS (Martinez et al. forthcoming). In view of this publication, the authors have deposited the survey results as data sets here. These include a CSV file of the survey’s data (scrubbed of respondents’ personal information), and the current PDF with graphical representations of the survey’s statistics. Both files present the survey’s raw, uncorrected (albeit redacted) data, as recorded and automatically analyzed by SurveyMonkey, including response rates per question and diagrams. As the uncorrected survey results, some of the data offered in these files may differ slightly from those presented in the forthcoming Variants article. For their qualitative analysis of the survey’s data in that publication, the authors corrected the data (e.g. excluding invalid answers, or reclassifying incorrectly classified answers), and interpreted them (e.g. creating categories for similar responses). Such interventions were justified in the relevant sections of the Variants article. Rather than depositing the corrected version of the survey’s results in the Humanities Commons repository, the authors decided to publish the uncorrected results instead, so as not to force their interpretation of the survey’s data on future research

ADHO 2019 workshop Accelerating DH Education: Proceedings from the Black Box

Proceedings of a workshop on 'Accelerating DH Education' at the annual ADHO conference in Utrecht on 8th July 2019. Contents *Workshop summary and outcomes *Presentations *Original workshop abstract accepte

Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces

The present volume “Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces” is the follow-up publication of the same-titled symposium that was held in 2016 at the University of Graz and the twelfth volume of the publication series of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE). It is the result of a successful collaboration between members of the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz, the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network DiXiT, a EC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, and the IDE. All articles have undergone a peer reviewing process and are published in Open Access. They document the current state of research on design, application and implications of both user and machine interfaces in the context of digital scholarly editions. The editors of the volume are grateful to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for enabling not only the symposium in 2016 but also the publication of the present volume with their financial support. Special thanks are also due to the staff of the Centre for Information Modelling, above all Georg Vogeler, who contributed to the successful organisation and completion of the symposium and this volume with their ideas and continuous support. Furthermore we want to thank all authors as well as all peer reviewers for the professional cooperation during the publication process. Last but not least we want to thank the many people involved in creating the present volume: Barbara Bollig (Trier) for language corrections and formal suggestions, Bernhard Assmann and Patrick Sahle (Cologne) for support and advises during the typese ing process, Selina Galka (Graz) for verifying and archiving (archive.org) all referenced URLs in January 2018, Julia Sorouri (Cologne) for the design of the cover as well as the artist Franz Konrad (Graz), who provided his painting “Desktop” (www.franzkonrad.com/gallery/desktop-2008-2010/) as cover image. We hope you enjoy reading and get as much intrigued by the topic “Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces” as we did

The future of the digital scholarly editor: interpretation, subjectivity and presence?

The technological innovations, and the possibilities that come with them, have far-reaching implications for the activity of a scholarly editor. Digital technologies can facilitate or even replace several traditional tasks of scholarly editing and textual analysis. This leads to new findings as well as new forms of presenting these findings to the public. As a consequence, the editor is now concerned not only with carrying out textual research but also with presenting his or her results in a suitable format. Whether an edition combines traditional approaches or rather presents an entirely new perspective on the text, the use of digital technology implies a reconsideration of the labour and activity of the editor. Notwithstanding the number of groundbreaking changes that take place in scholarly editing, it is important to remain aware of the core and basic assumptions of the discipline. Therefore, this article focuses on an issue that is present in traditional as well as digital scholarly editing: the tension between an editor’s interpretation and an objective presentation of the text. The article reviews the existing theory on the subject through three different perspectives. It considers the possibility of editorial objectivity, the desirability of editorial presence, and the implications for the presentation of findings. The findings suggest that the digital paradigm requires more that a slight alteration of the current theory.

Melville’s Marginalia Online

This review discusses Melville's Marginalia Online, a digital edition and online catalogue of the private library of author Herman Melville. The project is one of the first to make (parts of) a writer's library digitally available for research. By synthesizing and augmenting existing studies of Melville's reading, MMO provides an original scholarly resource. As such, the site offers an insight into the intellectual environment and literary influences of Herman Melville. Improvements can be made in the way this scholarship is communicated to the user. Moreover, considering the novelty of this type of research in the digital environment, it would be valuable to expand upon the technical implementations, or to publish the XML-transcriptions of Melville's marginalia

Interfacing Literary Genesis

The article examines ways in which the principles and scholarship of genetic criticism can be communicated to an audience of non-experts, explored through the means of a case study. This takes shape in the Brulez Digital Exhibit (BDE), a result of a collaboration between different parties involved in the GLAM sector and led by the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at Antwerp. The digital museum exhibit conveys scholarship on the manuscripts of the work Sheherazade of Literatuur als Losprijs (1932) by Raymond Brulez, and has been integrated into the permanent exhibition space of the Letterenhuis, the literary archive and museum in Antwerp. The paper discusses what could be gained or learned from a collaboration with such partners during the development. It further explores the classification of the BDE as a form of interface and scholarly output of a text editing project. In conclusion, it shows how we can find new and more effective ways to increase the dissemination and outreach of the textual genetic research