C21 Editions
Scholarly editing in the digital age
The C21 Editions project aims to radically rethink digital scholarly editions and the methods used to create them.
The C21 Editions project aims to radically rethink digital scholarly editions and the methods used to create them.
Scholarly editions are expertly curated and annotated primary sources. They are hugely important for studying culture and society, past and present.
But digital scholarly editions and ‘edition making’ are stuck in the past. There is no consensus and technical guidance on how to include born-digital materials, which is now the largest volume of written human language. And there are few computer-assisted techniques designed to support the creation and analysis of scholarly editions, despite edition-making being resource intensive and often overwhelmed by content.
For example, it is reasonable to expect that future historians and the general public will want a critically curated edition of the former President Donald Trump’s tweets, contextualised using the sea of online political, media and social discourse that his messages either responded to or prompted.
How would we do this? What content, standards, technologies, and rights would we need? How would we create, present, and sustain such an edition?
This project is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Irish Research Council (IRC) as part of the UK-Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities.
Please contact us at: c21editions@sheffield.ac.uk
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