Hello,
My co-editors and I would like to thank each of you for agreeing to
contribute to _Electronic Textual Editing_, a collection of essays
co-sponsored by the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly
Editions and the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, and funded by the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We look forward to working with you on this
project over the coming months.
This email list will be very low-volume: unless a majority of you request
it to be otherwise, it will remain a list to which only the editors can
post. If there is a ground-swell of sentiment in favor of opening up the
list for general discussion and permitting posting by all list members, we
can do that--but if that happens, you may opt out, as well, and we will
unsubscribe you, and cc you only when necessary. In the meantime, the list
will only be used for editorial business that concerns all
contributors. That said, please note that email addresses for all
contributors have been included at the end of this message, and we
encourage you to communicate directly with one another if you have concerns
about overlap, or if you would simply like to share ideas or drafts of
particular sections.
General guidelines for contributors follow, and then a list of the topics
and contributors. If you have questions at any point, you may address them
to any of the editors. Anything distributed through this list can be found
on the web at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/ete/ for
future reference. If this becomes a general discussion list, we'll
password-protect that URL, but for now, no username or password is needed.
John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>, for
Lou Burnard <lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> and
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe <O'Keeffe.4@nd.edu>
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Guidelines for contributors to Electronic Textual Editing
I. Content
The purpose of the volume is to provide practical guidance, theoretical
perspectives, example texts, and useful tools for those interested in
producing scholarly editions in electronic form. You have been invited to
contribute because of your first-hand experience and your expertise, and
you should draw on both when you write your essay. You should have in mind
a reader who knows something about editing (but maybe not a great deal),
and who wants to edit in electronic form, but who needs practical advice on
what to do, and not do.
In order to keep the various essays of this volume roughly comparable in
scope and treatment, we ask you to keep in mind the following questions,
intended to foreground principles and methods of editing as well as
presentation of text. These questions are informed by the newly revised
"Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions" from the Committee on
Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association of America). For
the current state of those guidelines, which are still undergoing revision,
see http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/cse/CSEguidelines.html. If you
need to refer to the TEI Guidelines, please make sure you use the most
current version, at http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/Status/.
The CSE Guidelines assert that the basic function of a scholarly edition
is to present a reliable text or texts. The reliability of such editions is in
turn established by careful and consistent attention to methods, texts,
principles and practices. For each element of the finished product, the
scholarly edition ideally requires transparency about all aspects of its
production, and therefore usually includes both a general introduction
(either historical or interpretive) and explanatory annotations to various
words, passages, events, and historical figures.
If your contribution is a case study (section 5B of the outline), then you
should be sure to address each of the questions outlined below at some
point during your essay, though not all of the questions will deserve equal
attention in every case. Contributors to section 6, concerning practices
and procedures, should also find this checklist helpful when considering
which aspects are relevant to their topic.
* What editorial principles underlie the edition? [e.g. is the edition
primarily interested in authorial intention, reception, production,
etc. Is it broadly speaking 'diplomatic', best-text, copy-text,
variorum, etc.]
* To what extent does this edition follow generally accepted principles
for editions of its kind? Where it does not, on what grounds does it
depart from them?
* What methods of representing the text are followed? For example: How
has the text been constructed or represented? On what rationale? What
is the history of the text in its various physical states? What is the
verbal composition of the text, including punctuation, capitalization,
spelling, and, where appropriate, layout, graphical elements, and
physical appearance of the source material?
* How is the text presented? What form of textual apparatus is
appropriate for this type of edition? What elements are included in
the apparatus? What elements, if any, are excluded? If a textual
apparatus is not appropriate, are notes used to record variant
readings? Alterations by the author? by an intervening editor? or by
the present editor?
* How is the accuracy of the text ensured? What proofreading plan is
followed to ensure accuracy?
II. Format:
All essays should be submitted electronically, either on disk or
(preferably) as attachments to email. Submissions may be in TEI-conformant
SGML or XML, or in a common word-processing format (Microsoft Word,
WordPerfect).
Contributors should note that the formatting of any word processed
submissions cannot be reliably preserved, and should therefore avoid
relying excessively on it. The unnecessary use of figures and tables in
particular should be avoided.
American spelling should be used.
Use endnotes, not footnotes, and provide a list of works cited. In this
and all other matters of style, essays should follow the MLA Style Manual
and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2nd edition, 1998, Joseph Gibaldi).
III. Deadlines, Length
Completed drafts are due Monday, October 7, 2002. The editors would
welcome the submission of preliminary drafts at any earlier point. Please
stay within ten percent of the assigned word-length (with the exception of
the 10,000-word survey essay, that length is 5,000 words for most pieces,
2500 words for some in section 6).
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Electronic Textual Editing
A volume co-sponsored by the Modern Language Association's Committee on
Scholarly Editions and the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, and funded
by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
1. Foreword
G. Thomas Tanselle
Columbia University &
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
gtt@gf.org
2. Editors' introduction
Lou Burnard, Oxford University & Text Encoding Initiative,
lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou/
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Notre Dame University & Committee on
Scholarly Editions
O'Keeffe.4@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~prinfo/endow/artsletters/endow_okeeffe.shtml
John Unsworth, University of Virginia & Committee on Scholarly
Editions & Text Encoding Initiative
jmu2m@virginia.edu
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/
3. Committee on Scholarly Editions' Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly
Editions
Newly revised, and including a checklist and glossary for vettors of print
editions compiled by Robert Hirst (UC-Berkeley, rhirst@library.berkeley.edu),
a checklist and glossary for vettors of electronic editions, compiled by
Morris Eaves and John Unsworth, and an annotated bibliography on editorial
methods, compiled by Dirk van Hulle.
4. Principles
Burnard, O'Keeffe, Unsworth
5. Sources and Orientations.
A. Survey Essay on Theories of Textual Editing
Jerome McGann
University of Virginia
jjm2f@virginia.edu
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jjm2f/
and
Dino Buzzetti
Università di Bologna
buzzetti@philo.unibo.it
http://www.mediamente.rai.it/home/bibliote/biografi/b/buzzetti.htm
B. Case Studies:
Medieval manuscript materials
Peter Robinson, Canterbury Tales Project
De Montfort University
peter.robinson@dmu.ac.uk
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/Faculties/HSS/English/Staff/robinson.html
Documentary Editing
Bob Rosenberg, Edison Papers
Rutgers University
rarosenb@rci.rutgers.edu
http://edison.rutgers.edu
Poetry
Neil Fraistat, Romantic Circles
University of Maryland
nf5@umail.umd.edu
http://www.rc.umd.edu/nfraistat/home/standard.html
and
Steven Jones, Romantic Circles
Loyola University, Chicago
sjones1@wpo.it.luc.edu
http://www.luc.edu/faculty/sjones1/
Drama
David Gants
University of Georgia
dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu
http://parallel.park.uga.edu/dgants/
Prose Fiction
Peter Shillingsburg, Thackeray
University of North Texas
pls1@unt.edu
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/misc/shillingsburg.html
Anthology
Julia Flanders, Women Writers Project
Brown University
Julia_Flanders@brown.edu
http://www.stg.brown.edu/staff/julia.html
Authorial Translation
Dirk van Hulle, Antwerp James Joyce Center
University of Antwerp
dirk.vanhulle@ua.ac.be
http://lib.ua.ac.be/AB/a16213.html
Genetic Text
Edward Vanhoutte, Center for Textual Criticism and Document Studies
Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde
evanhoutte@kantl.be
http://ger-www.uia.ac.be/webger/ger/people/vanhoutte/default.htm
Philosophical Texts
Claus Huitfeldt, Wittgenstein Archives
University of Bergen
Claus.Huitfeldt@hit.uib.no
http://www.hit.uib.no/claus/cv.htm
Religious Texts
David Parker, International Greek New Testament Project
University of Birmingham
D.C.Parker@bham.ac.uk
http://web.bham.ac.uk/d.c.parker/
Illustrated Texts/Mixed Media
Morris Eaves, The Blake Archive
University of Rochester
meav@mail.rochester.edu
http://www.rochester.edu/college/eng/faculty/eaves.html
Manuscript Fragments
Ralph Cleminson
University of Portsmouth & Central European University
ralph.cleminson@port.ac.uk or cleminso@ceu.hu
http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/ralph.htm
Epigraphy
Anne Mahoney, Perseus Project & Stoa Consortium
Tufts University
amahoney@perseus.tufts.edu
http://www.stoa.org/~mahoney/
6. Practices and Procedures
Effective Methods of Producing Machine-Readable Text
from Manuscript and Print Sources
Hoyt Duggan, Piers Plowman Project
University of Virginia
hnd@virginia.edu
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/duggan.html
and
Eileen Fenton
Director of Production, JSTOR
egfenton@umich.edu
Levels of Transcription
Matthew Driscoll, MASTER & Medieval Nordic Text Archive
Det Arnamagnaeanske Institut Kobenhavns Universitet
mjd@hum.ku.dk
http://www.hum.ku.dk/ami/mjd/
Digital Facsimiles in Editing
Kevin Kiernan, Electronic Beowulf
University of Kentucky
kiernan@uky.edu
http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/vita/ksk.html
Authentication in Electronic Editions
Paul Eggert, Phil Berrie, Chris Tiffin, and Graham Barwell
Australian Scholarly Editions Centre
Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales
p-eggert@adfa.edu.au, p-berrie@adfa.edu.au, c.tiffin@uq.edu.au,
Graham_Barwell@uow.edu.au
http://idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/SOE/staff/Paul.htm
http://english.uq.edu.au/staff/staff-pages/tiffinc.html
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/staff/barwell/
Document Management and File Naming
Greg Crane, Perseus Project
Tufts University
gcrane@emerald.tufts.edu
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/About/grc.html
Writing Systems and Character Representation
Christian Wittern
Kyoto University
chris@ccbs.ntu.edu.tw
http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~wittern/
How and Why to Formalize your Markup
Patrick Durusau
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu
Storage, Retrieval, and Rendering
Michael Beddow
Independent Scholar
mb@mbeddow.net
http://www.mbeddow.net/
When not to use TEI
John Lavagnino
Kings College, London
John.Lavagnino@kcl.ac.uk
http://www.stg.brown.edu/~lav/
Moving a Print-Based Editorial Project into Electronic Form
Hans-Walter Gabler
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
hans-walter.gabler@anglistik.uni-muenchen.de
Rights and Permissions in an Electronic Edition
Mary Case
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication
Association of Research Libraries
marycase@arl.org
and
David Green
Director, National Initiative of Networked Cultural Heritage
david@ninch.org
Collection and Preservation of an Electronic Edition
Nancy McGovern, Digital Imaging and Preservation Research
Cornell University
nm84@cornell.edu
(with Anne Kenney and David Ruddy)
7. Conclusion: Unsolved Mysteries
The Editors
8. Works Cited
The Editors
Total: 120,000-150,000 words
[A CD-ROM will be included in the back of the volume, with the complete
TEI Guidelines (P4 revision, April 2002), sample/example texts, free
software, etc.. If you have materials you would like to include on the CD,
so that you can refer to them in your essay, please let us know as soon as
you can.]
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