Toward modeling the social edition: An approach to understanding the electronic scholarly edition in the context of new and emerging social media

Siemens, Ray; Timney, Meagan; Leitch, Cara; Koolen, Corina; Garnett, Alex

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“…(Earlier editors either printed certa or marked the passage as irreparably corrupt. 20 Samuel 11,49,108,109,110,111,112,113,115,116,117 Bédier,Joseph 44,62,63 25,27,29,30,34,38,101,149,162,163,223,228 11,109,110,112,114,115,117,180 Marotti,Arthur F. 139,140,144,148,150 Martin,Robert C. 91 Masotti, Raffaele 233 MASTER project 4 Mays, J. C. C. 46 textual criticism 19,20,22,24,35,47,59,64,72,78 TRAME 4 transcription 8,23,24,27,29,…”

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Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices

Buzzoni¹

2016

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Section: Decoding the Apparatusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices

Buzzoni¹

2016

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“…These affordances are also a catalyst that extends the process of social construction of interpretation beyond the in--group of textual scholars. For instance, they enable the technological platforms that make the concept of open--ended or social editions feasible (Siemens et al 2012, Causer & Terras 2014, and allow inclusion of crowdsourcing efforts into the practices of scholarly editing. This means that scholarly editors increasingly involve people who are not fully formally trained, such as students and interested amateurs, to participate in the editing process (Brumfield 2013).…”

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Author, Editor, Engineer — Code & the Rewriting of Authorship in Scholarly Editing

Zundert

2015

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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This article examines the relation of software creation to scholarship, particularly within the domain of textual scholarship and the creation of (digital) scholarly editions. To this end both scholarly editing and the creation of software are considered with regard to the individual relationship they have to the concept of authorship. I argue that both are in fact forms of revisionary authorship, and that they are scholarly in so far as they serve to present an expression of a text that can be taken as an argument about the interpretation of that text. In addition software's performative aspect allows it to rewrite itself and other textual expressions; its application rewrites the very process of textual scholarship. Because of its scholarly ramifications the creation of scholarly argument and expressions of editions by means of code should be claimed as scholarly work by its authors, i.e. programmers. Without proper appropriation the accountability for scholarly process becomes problematic.

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“…Projects such as 'manuscript archives' that do not envisage the development of a full 'historical-critical' edition, could still offer their users an alternative to a traditional 'critical apparatus'. Comparable with aspects of what is currently often labeled social editing (Siemens, 2012), embedding CollateX in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project enables the user to make his or her own selection of textual versions that need to be collated and leave out the ones he or she is not immediately interested in.…”

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Computer-supported collation of modern manuscripts: CollateX and the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project

Dekker¹,

Hülle²,

Middell³

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Digital Scholarship Humanities

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Interoperability is the key term within the framework of the European-funded research project Interedition, 1 whose aim is 'to encourage the creators of tools for textual scholarship to make their functionality available to others, and to promote communication between scholars so that we can raise awareness of innovative working methods.' The tools developed by Interedition's 'Prototyping' working group needed to be tested by other research teams, which formulate strategic recommendations. To this purpose, the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (The Hague) and the University of Würzburg have been working together within the framework of Interedition.One of the concrete results of collaboration is the development and fine-tuning of the text collation tool CollateX. 2 In this paper we would like to investigate how the architecture of a digital archive containing modern manuscripts can be designed in such a way that users can autonomously collate textual units of their choice with the help of the collation tool CollateX and thus decide for themselves how this digital architecture functions -as an archive, as a genetic dossier, or as an edition. The first part introduces CollateX and its internal concepts and heuristics as a tool for digitally supported collation. How this tool can be integrated in the infrastructure of an electronic edition is discussed in part two. The third and final part examines the possibility of deploying CollateX for the collation of modern manuscripts by means of a test CollateX is an open source Java collation engine, developed, maintained, and supported by an international open source development community (OSDC) of developers active in the digital humanities community. Having originated and finding a number of applications in several projects of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, the final coordination of development currently rests with this institute. However the code is in the public domain: https://github.com/interedition/collatex case: the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org). Computer supported collation with CollateXFollowing John Unsworth's textual scholarship workflow typology of scholarly primitives (Unsworth, 2000), it is clear that text comparison is pivotal to any kind of textual scholarship. The role of text comparison becomes paramount in any scholarly editing project that involves critical enquiries about the edited text witnessed in multiple versions. Conducting such a comparison of a text's versions manually or -to use the proper terminology of the field -'collating them' classifies as tedious and error-prone work, 3 especially as the required attention to detail is highly demanding when measured against the repetitive and (sometimes) mechanical nature of the task. From that perspective, this type of work seems an ideal candidate for automation, not only because computers can support users in tedious, error-prone duties rather efficiently, but sp...

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Toward modeling the social edition: An approach to understanding the electronic scholarly edition in the context of new and emerging social media

Cited by 68 publications

References 39 publications

Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices

Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices

Author, Editor, Engineer — Code & the Rewriting of Authorship in Scholarly Editing

Computer-supported collation of modern manuscripts: CollateX and the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project

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