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Desiderata for Digital Editions

Peter RobinsonUniversity of Saskatchewan

1. The text of both the document and of the work should be encoded;

2. All editorial acts should be attributed;3. All materials should, by default, be available

by a Creative Commons share-alike license;4. All materials should be available independent

of any one interface;5. All materials should be held in a sustainable

long-term storage system, such as an institutional repository

1. The text of both the document and of the work should be encoded

“Traditional” TEI --

“New” TEI (Ch. 11 of P5) --

Overlapping hierarchies? Just deal with it!

Textual Communities:

www.textualcommunities.usask.ca

Anyone for refsDecl? We are…

This tells the processor: the document tree is made of pages containing columns containing lines

Do the same for the entity tree (each <div> is a part of the Tales, containing <l> elements for each line)

Map this to an ontology, put all these chunks into a database, and you are done

View by document

View by entity within document

View by entity and entity part

All editorial acts should be attributed

If you have the‘non-commercial’ restriction you might as well lock it up and throw away the key

Kings College: 47 projects with digital output:•23: “© 2011 Kings College London” or similar•21: Specify restrictions (usually ‘non-commercial’)•3: available without restriction (all from one group of projects)

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/11/16331/0655 (“Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful”)

All materials should be available independent of any one interface

Your interface is everyone else’s enemy

Let everybody take and reuse your data

Solution:CCSA+Smart Data+API=HCE=42

Why digital humanists should get out of textual scholarship

Peter RobinsonUniversity of Saskatchewan

Social, Digital, ScholarlyEditing

Saskatoon, 11-13 July 2013

What I said

Collaboration between textual scholars and digital humanists is a mistake

Digital humanists should get out of textual scholarship; and if they don’t, textual scholars should throw them out

What I did not say

Textual scholars should not use digital methods

NO. The medium has always been central to textual scholarship. We have to know everything there is to know about digital texts – and we have to make digital texts.

The mistakes we have made together

The story of <add> and <del>

BUT

Inferno iii, 9: Riccardiana 1005

NOT

The mistakes we have made together

• Digital scholarly editions are more than TEI encoding

• Alan Galey is wrong. You don’t need to know PHP, grep, Apache, the history of browsers, XSLT …

• Angle brackets are NOT good for you

How we may work

NOT: One Project/One Scholar/One Digital Humanist

INSTEAD:Lots of projects with lots of scholars creating lots of data, open to allLots of other people doing lots of things with thedata – making interfaces, exploring it differentways

Many Projects/Many Scholars/Many Digital Humanists