Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 614.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: Robert.Knapp@directory.reed.edu (Robert Knapp) (27)
Subject: Re: 15.610 advice for an online edition, and a query
[2] From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com> (16)
Subject: imaging in editions?
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 08:19:47 +0100
From: Robert.Knapp@directory.reed.edu (Robert Knapp)
Subject: Re: 15.610 advice for an online edition, and a query
Thanks to all respondents, on and off list, for extremely helpful and
candid advice. To Willard's query, I'd say that the target audience is
two fold, in this order: undergraduates, scholars who read English more
rapidly than Latin. The tentative ordering of goals runs something like
this: to produce a searchable text, annotated with enough explanation to
make it useful to the undergraduate target audience, and with some
discursive commentary (mostly confined to an introduction). Some of this
annotation will involve adding notes locating and explaining the marginal
references (mostly citations of authority) that the sixteenth century
translator provides. If our institution acts on my request to subscribe to
ProQuest's EEBO, it would be good to link the edition to the digitized page
images in that collection (which of course would mean that only persons at
institutions subscribing to EEBO could follow such links).
Most of the questions I would imagine such an edition capable of answering
will be those that a good print edition could answer: what does this word,
this reference mean; who is this translator, and who were his patrons; what
is the conceptual history of this notion; how should one interpret such and
such a passage; what is the historical interest of the work as a whole;
where can one find additional discussion of this text and this
author. It's possible, I suppose, that questions of early modern English
usage might be posed to the text, but it's short and not unusual, and it
has no special literary or rhetorical interest.
In addition to two sorts of notes (the translator's marginal notes, and
others that I add) I intend to tag major structural features: colophon and
title page, book and chapter division, page (and signature), paragraph,
line number. The RET guidelines may lead me to tag additional features,
but right now these seem enough.
Robert Knapp
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:08:20 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: imaging in editions?
Robert Knapp's query leads me to another: in electronic editions these
days, what role is imaging tending to play, and how are images integrated
into the overall design? My question is in part provoked by a remark Jerry
McGann makes at the end of Chapter 2 in Radiant Textuality: that the actual
implementations of the theoretical designs in our current online archives
are anything but decentred. He says that "a major part of our future work
with these new electronic environments will be to search for ways to
implement, at the interface level, the full dynamic -- and decentering --
capabilities of these new tools" (p. 74). How are images being used toward
this end?
Yours,
WM
Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,
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