Digital Critical Editions (Topics in the Digital Humanities) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252038401 ISBN 13: 9780252038402

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2014

Synopsis

Provocative yet sober, Digital Critical Editions examines how transitioning from print to a digital milieu deeply affects how scholars deal with the work of editing critical texts. On one hand, forces like changing technology and evolving reader expectations lead to the development of specific editorial products, while on the other hand, they threaten traditional forms of knowledge and methods of textual scholarship.

Using the experiences of philologists, text critics, text encoders, scientific editors, and media analysts, Digital Critical Editions ranges from philology in ancient Alexandria to the vision of user-supported online critical editing, from peer-directed texts distributed to a few to community-edited products shaped by the many. The authors discuss the production and accessibility of documents, the emergence of tools used in scholarly work, new editing regimes, and how the readers' expectations evolve as they navigate digital texts. The goal: exploring questions such as, What kind of text is produced? Why is it produced in this particular way?

Digital Critical Editions provides digital editors, researchers, readers, and technological actors with insights for addressing disruptions that arise from the clash of traditional and digital cultures, while also offering a practical roadmap for processing traditional texts and collections with today's state-of-the-art editing and research techniques thus addressing readers' new emerging reading habits.

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About the Author

Daniel Apollon is an associate professor and head of the Digital Culture Research Group at the University of Bergen. Claire Bélisle is a researcher at the National Scientific Research Center at the University of Lyon. Philippe Régnier is director of research at the National Scientific Research Center at the University of Lyon.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252038401
• ISBN 13: 9780252038402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Apollon Daniel, Belisle Claire, Regnier Philippe