Development Principles for Virtual Archives and Editions

HRIT (Humanities Research Infrastructure and Tools) principles for developing scholarly archival and editorial digital projects. Provides explicit definitions distinguishing source documents from digital reproductions and separating scholarly enhancement (normally embedded in text files). Discusses the relation between images and transcriptions, exploring the implications of each. Explores the ways modular structures apply not only to tools and programs but to tasks and storage of products. Suggests new distinctions between essential minimal textual markup, on one hand, and all other enhancement markup on the other, arguing that the form is text and the latter should never be embedded in text because doing so limits and narrows the potential uses of the text

From Physical to Digital Textualiity: Loss and Gain in Literary Projects

Provides advice for student parjects in digitizing literary texts for web sites. Discusses the salient features of documents and what is gained and lost in transformations for virtual digital representation. Articulates some principles for methodologies and goals for such projects

Literary Documents, Texts, and Works Represented Digitally

Provides contexts for understanding consequences and principles for creating virtual representations of literary documents. The contexts are the history of scholarly editing, the methods and goals of archives, the limitations of digital transformations of material texts, and the relations between images and transcriptions in digital forms. Scholarly standards for textual work are used to indict most scan-and-post projects

Is Reliable-Social-Scholarlyo-Editing an Oxymoron

A critique of humanities digital archive and text projects holding them to standards of iconographical and textual accuracy and a criticism of collaborative projects for posting not-ready-for-prime-time versions of work that passes for finished by some while demanding help from others to bring up to usable standards. Suggests minimal standards for digital textual projects and outlines principles for collaborative work

E-Carrel: An Environment for Collaborative Textual Scholarship

The E-Carrel project aims to address the preservation of, access to, and re-uses of humanities electronic text files. It enables dynamic, growing resource projects as repositories for new knowledge. It provides for on-line distributed data and tools that are open to new scholarly enhancement through a user friendly tagging tool, sophisticated use of stand-off markup and annotation (leveraging RDF capabilities), and a browsing system anyone can use. It creates a secure system of text preparation and dissemination that encourages collaboration and participation by anyone interested in the texts. To insure the endurance of authenticated texts, multiple copies are distributed on the Internet. Foundation texts anchor a system for maintaining and growing project usefulness beyond the originators’ interest and the functions they imagined. Increasing access to humanities texts as useful, adaptable, reliable source materials that can be re-purposed will increase interest in continued maintenance, which are critical for long-term preservation and access

Le paysage éditorial anglo-américain de 1980 à 2005

S’il est vrai que l’édition critique est dans tous les pays une pratique aussi ancienne que celle de la littérature, c’est entre les années trente et cinquante que l’édition de littérature et de théâtre en langue anglaise est devenue une discipline savante ou « scientifique ». D’abord appliquées aux œuvres de la Renaissance, les nouvelles méthodes éditoriales influencèrent bientôt de façon radicale les pratiques d’édition des œuvres littéraires des périodes suivantes. En Amérique du Nord en p..

Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction

The digital era has brought with it a shift in the field of literary editing in terms of the amount and kind of textual variation that can reasonably be annotated by editors. However, questions remain about how far readers engage with textual variants, especially minor ones such as small-scale changes to punctuation. In this study we present an eye-tracking experiment investigating reader sensitivity to variations in surface textual features of prose fiction. We monitored eye movements while participants read textual variants from Dickens and James, hypothesising that readers may pay more attention to lexical rather than punctuation changes. We found longer reading times for both types, but only lexical changes also increased reading times for the rest of the sentence. In addition, eye movement behaviour and conscious ability to report changes were highly correlated. We discuss the implications for how such methods might be applied to questions of “literary” significance and textual processing