Welcome to the London Rare Books School summer 2018 module on Digital Scholarly Editing (2-6 July). This week will be an intense study of the traditions and principles of scholarly editing, coupled with a bootcamp on the fundamentals of creating digital editions.
Course readings are either hyperlinked in the plan of each of day or downloadable in the readings subdirectory. (Please save paper by reading these on your computer or tablet.)
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Grasp of the history, principles, and techniques of scholarly editing.
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Facility with transcribing documents in Markdown, HTML, and XML (using the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative).
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The ability to make your own digital critical edition of a literary document.
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Awareness of the problems and challenges of digital editions.
Day 1: Brief History of Scholarly Editing; Transcription and digital workflow.
Day 2: Documentary Editing; Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
Day 3: Eclectic editing; TEI continued.
Day 4: Genetic Criticism, Sociology of Text, and Fluid Text Editing; customising TEI.
Day 5: Alternative markup; Computer-assisted collation; Open discussion on publishing editions.
(Please note that I will hold office hours in Room 242 for further consultation between 8.30–9.30 and 16.00–17.00)
| Time | Topic | Type |
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| 12.30 | Registration | |
| 13.00 | Senate House Library Talk | Presentation |
| 14.00 | Seminar 1: Brief history of Scholarly Editing | Presentation, Discussion |
| 16.00 | Seminar 2: Digital Editing Workflow, Transcription; Brief Introduction to XML | Digital lab |
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 9.30 | Seminar 3: Documentary Editing | Presentation, Discussion |
| 11.30 | Seminar 4: Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) | Digital lab |
| 14.00 (in SHL) | Seminar 5: Using TEI for documentary editions: letters and journals | Discussion |
| 16.00 | Library Time |
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 9.30 | Seminar 6: Eclectic/clear text editing; Critical Apparatus | Presentation, Discussion |
| 11.30 | Seminar 7: Encoding critical apparatus in TEI | Digital lab |
| 14.00 (in SHL) | Seminar 8: Editing a clear text: stories, essays and poems | Discussion; Digital lab |
| 16.00 | Library Time |
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 9.30 | Seminar 9: Thinking about, writing, and encoding textual apparatus and annotation | Presentation, Discussion |
| 11.30 | Seminar 10: Intro to genetic criticism, social text editing, fluid text editing | Digital lab |
| 14.00 | Seminar 11: Using TextLab to create manuscript-based genetic editions in TEI | Digital lab |
| 16.00 | Library Time |
| Time | Topic | Type |
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| 9.30 | Seminar 12: Problems with TEI; alternative markup with LMNL; Computer-Assisted Collation Overview; Quick introduction to XPath and XSLT | Presentation, Digital lab |
| 11.30 | Seminar 13: Open discussion on publishing digital editions; course review | Discussion |
(Other shorter readings will be found on the course github repository and linked to their corresponding day plan.)
Bryant, John. The Fluid Text. U Michigan P, 2002.
Burnard, Lou. What is the Text Encoding Initiative? (Open Edition, 2014).
Gabler, Hans Walter. Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays [especially "Theorizing the Digital Scholarly Edition"] (Open Book, 2018).
Gaskell, Philip. From Writer to Reader: Studies in Editorial Method (Oak Knoll, 1978).
Gottesman, Ronald and Scott Bennett, eds. Art and Error: Modern Textual Editing (Indiana UP, 1970).
Greetham, David. Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research (New York: MLA, 1995)
McGann, Jerome. A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (UP of Virginia, 1983).
––––. A New Republic of Letters (Harvard UP, 2014).
Parker, Hershel. Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons (Northwestern UP, 1984).
Tanselle, G. Thomas. "The Editing of Historical Documents," Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978), pp. 1–56.
Pierazzo, Elena. Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods (Ashgate, 2015).
––––. Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices (Open Book, 2016).