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A Catalogue of Digital Editions

Franzini, G; Mahony, S; Terras, M; (2016) A Catalogue of Digital Editions. In: Pierazzo, E and Driscoll, M, (eds.) Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices. (pp. 161-182). Open Book Publishers: Cambridge, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

Since the earliest days of hypertext, textual scholars have produced, discussed and theorised upon critical digital editions of manuscripts, in order to investigate how digital technologies can provide another means to present and enable the interpretative study of text. This work has generally been done by looking at particular case studies or examples of critical digital editions, and, as a result, there is no overarching understanding of how digital technologies have been employed across the full range of textual interpretations. This chapter will describe the creation of a catalogue of digital editions that could collect information about extant digital editions and, in so doing, contribute to research in related disciplines. The resulting catalogue will provide a means of answering, in the form of a quantitative survey, the following research questions: What makes a good digital edition? What features do digital editions share? What is the state of the art in the field of digital editions? Why are there so few electronic editions of ancient texts, and so many of texts from other periods? By collecting data regarding existing digital editions, and corresponding directly with the projects in question, we provide a unique record of extant digital critical editions of text across a range of subject areas, and show how this collaboratively edited catalogue can benefit the Digital Humanities community.

Type: Book chapter
Title: A Catalogue of Digital Editions
ISBN-13: 9781783742387
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0095
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0095
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016 Matthew James Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo. Copyright of each individual chapter is maintained by the author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adapt the text and to make commercial use of the text providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
Keywords: Digital Humanities, Scholarly Editing, Critical Editions, XML, TEI, Digital History, Manuscript Studies
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10136874
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