Putting the Text back into Context: A Codicological Approach to Manuscript Transcription

Textual scholars have tended to produce editions which present the text without its manuscript context. Even though digital editions now often present single-witness editions with facsimiles of the manuscripts, nevertheless the text itself is still transcribed and represented as a linguistic object rather than a physical one. Indeed, this is explicitly stated as the theoretical basis for the de facto standard of markup for digital texts: the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). These explicitly treat texts as semantic units such as paragraphs, sentences, verses and so on, rather than physical elements such as pages, openings, or surfaces, and some scholars have argued that this is the only viable model for representing texts. In contrast, this chapter presents arguments for considering the document as a physical object in the markup of texts. The theoretical arguments of what constitutes a text are first reviewed, with emphasis on those used by the TEI and other theoreticians of digital markup. A series of cases is then given in which a document-centric approach may be desirable, with both modern and medieval examples. Finally a step forward in this direction is raised, namely the results of the Genetic Edition Working Group in the Manuscript Special Interest Group of the TEI: this includes a proposed standard for documentary markup, whereby aspects of codicology and mise en page can be included in digital editions, putting the text back into its manuscript context

Le codage en TEI des brouillons de Proust : vers l’édition numérique

International audienceThis article discusses some of the issues connected with the modelling and the development of an online tool for the display of the writing process of some pages of Marcel Prous

Editorial Introduction to the Sixth Issue

The essays in this issue have been selected from among the papers given at the 2012 TEI Conference, TEI in the C{r/l}oud, held in College Station, Texas, at Texas A&M University. These particular essays focus primarily on the Crowd. Except for our most technical contribution by Lou Burnard which really concerns making the language of TEI Schemas more independent of existing schema languages, they all share an interest in how TEI might function off-piste, as it were—that is, not among the TEI ..

Le codage en TEI des brouillons de Proust : vers l’édition numérique

Ce que nous voulons, c’est la littérature qui bouge, et saisie dans le moment même où elle semble bouger encore. Julien Gracq, En lisant, en écrivant En général, les éditions de manuscrits adoptent la présentation diplomatique, parfois dite « ultra-diplomatique », qui s’efforce de rendre compte, de manière aussi mimétique que possible, de la disposition spatiale de l’écriture. Bien que ce type d’édition présente de nombreux avantages, une dimension fondamentale lui fait défaut : la dimension ..

LAS PUBLICACIONES DIGITALES DE CORPUS DE AUTORES - guía de trabajo, plantilla de análisis y recomendaciones - Traducido al español por Paloma Ortega Deballon, revisado por Amelia Del Rosario Sanz Cabrerizo y Fatiha Idmhand

Desde hace varios años el número de publicaciones digitales de fuentes textuales aumenta sin cesar. Son ya numerosos los textos que están disponibles en internet, ya sea de manera autónoma, o agrupados en forma de colecciones, bibliotecas y archivos. Los encargados de estos proyectos de digitalización, sean novatos o expertos, se plantean, en un momento u otro, cuáles son las mejores prácticas en materia de realización, publicación y preservación a largo plazo de las ediciones científicas digitales. ¿Cuáles son las normas y los estándares -emergentes o ya establecidos- que hay que respetar en el ámbito de la publicación digital? ¿Qué preguntas se han de plantear en cada etapa del proceso de realización y dónde encontrar las respuestas pertinentes? Fundada en la experiencia editorial de sus autores y en la observación de proyectos editoriales llevados a cabo en Europa y en el extranjero, así como en una reflexión colectiva en el marco del grupo EVENT del Consorcio CAHIER (HumaNum), esta guía pretende aportar una respuesta a estas cuestiones

Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods

This book provides an up-to-date, coherent and comprehensive treatment of digital scholarly editing, organized according to the typical timeline and workflow of the preparation of an edition: from the choice of the object to edit, the editorial work, post-production and publication, the use of the published edition, to long-term issues and the ultimate significance of the published work. The author also examines from a theoretical and methodological point of view the issues and problems that emerge during these stages with the application of computational techniques and methods. Building on previous publications on the topic, the book discusses the most significant developments in digital textual scholarship, claiming that the alterations in traditional editorial practices necessitated by the use of computers impose radical changes in the way we think and manage texts, documents, editions and the public. It is of interest not only to scholarly editors, but to all involved in publishing and readership in a digital environment in the humanities

Quale infrastruttura per le edizioni digitali: dalla tecnologia all’etica

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