Electronic Textual Editing
Submissions received to date, in various formats
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
Editors' Procedure:
Lead editor identified in parens, below. In editing, editors will pay special attention to intellectual coherence and argumentation, and to documentation (which should be in MLA format). Editors will enforce American spelling, and will highlight/record/keep track of index terms. Editors will also request that authors supply sample texts (or images) for the CD, remembering to request written evidence of permission to publish those examples, either from the author (if the author is owner) or from the owner.
Dates (2003-2004):
Suggested revisions to all B authors: End of August
Revisions accepted or changed by authors: end of September
MSS and CD to reviewers: end of October
Review of MSS complete:January
Authors respond to reviewers: February
Revised MSS to MLA for copyediting: April
Index, CD compiled and reviewed by editors: May
XML source, CD master to MLA for publication: June
Publication: 2005
1. Foreword (rec'd 10/7/02) (KOO)
G. Thomas Tanselle
Columbia University &
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2. Editors’ introduction (rec'd)
Lou Burnard, Oxford University/Text Encoding Initiative,
lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, Notre Dame University/Committee on
Scholarly Editions, O'Keeffe.4@nd.edu
http://medieval-englit.nd.edu/obok.htm
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) (rec'd 10/07/02) (LB),
a checklist and glossary for vettors of electronic editions, compiled by Morris Eaves and John Unsworth (rec'd 11/15/02), (LB)
and an annotated bibliography on editorial methods, compiled by Dirk van Hulle (rec'd 10/7/02) (LB).
4. Sources and Orientations.
A. Survey Essay on Theories of Textual Editing (rec'd 1/8/03) (JU)
Jerome McGann
University of Virginia
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jjm2f/
and
Dino Buzzetti
Università di Bologna
http://www.mediamente.rai.it/home/bibliote/biografi/b/buzzetti.htm
B. Case Studies:
Medieval manuscript materials (rec'd 11/18/02) (KOO)
Peter Robinson, Canterbury Tales Project
De Montfort University
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/Faculties/HSS/English/Staff/robinson.html
Documentary Editing (rec'd 10/27/02) (LB)
Bob Rosenberg, Edison Papers
Rutgers University
Poetry (rec'd 10/7/02) (LB)
Neil Fraistat, Romantic Circles
University of Maryland
http://www.rc.umd.edu/nfraistat/home/standard.html
and
Steven Jones, Romantic Circles
Loyola University, Chicago
http://www.luc.edu/faculty/sjones1/
Drama (rec'd 10/7/02) (JU)
David Gants
University of Georgia
http://parallel.park.uga.edu/dgants/
Prose Fiction (rec'd 10/7/02)
unassigned
Anthology (rec'd 10/8/02) (KOO)
Julia Flanders, Women Writers Project
Brown University
http://www.stg.brown.edu/staff/julia.html
Authorial Translation (rec'd 10/7/02) (JU)
Dirk van Hulle, Antwerp James Joyce Center
University of Antwerp
http://lib.ua.ac.be/AB/a16213.html
Genetic Text (rec'd 1/15/03) (KOO)
Edward Vanhoutte, Center for Textual Criticism and Document Studies
Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde
http://ger-www.uia.ac.be/webger/ger/people/vanhoutte/default.htm
Philosophical Texts (rec'd 10/7/02) (JU)
Claus Huitfeldt, Wittgenstein Archives
University of Bergen
http://www.hit.uib.no/claus/cv.htm
Religious Texts (rec'd 10/08/02) (JU)
David Parker, International Greek New Testament Project
University of Birmingham
http://web.bham.ac.uk/d.c.parker/
Illustrated Texts/Mixed Media (rec'd 10/08/02) (LB)
Morris Eaves, The Blake Archive
University of Rochester
http://www.rochester.edu/college/eng/faculty/eaves.html
Manuscript Fragments (rec'd 10/07/02) (LB)
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 (rec'd 10/10/02) (KOO)
Anne Mahoney, Perseus Project & Stoa Consortium
Tufts University
5. Practices and Procedures
Effective Methods of Producing Machine-Readable Text from Manuscript (rec'd 10/14/02) (JU)
and Print Sources
Hoyt Duggan, Piers Plowman Project
University of Virginia
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/duggan.html
and
Eileen Fenton
Director of Production, JSTOR
Levels of Transcription (rec'd 10/10/02) (LB)
Matthew Driscoll, MASTER & Medieval Nordic Text Archive
Det Arnamagnæanske Institut Københavns Universitet
Digital Facsimiles in Editing (rec'd 10/07/02) (JU)
Kevin Kiernan, Electronic Beowulf
University of Kentucky
http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/vita/ksk.html
Authentication in Electronic Editions (rec'd 10/07/02) (KOO)
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 (rec'd 10/29/02) (JU)
Greg Crane, Perseus Project
Tufts University
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/About/grc.html
Writing Systems and Character Representation (rec'd 10/07/02) (KOO)
Christian Wittern
Kyoto University
http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~wittern/
How and Why to Formalize your Markup (rec'd 10/16/02) (LB)
Patrick Durusau
Society of Biblical Literature
Storage, Retrieval, and Rendering (rec'd 1/30/03) (LB)
Sebastian Rahtz
Oxford University
When not to use TEI (rec'd 10/13/02) (JU)
John Lavagnino
Kings College, London
http://www.stg.brown.edu/~lav/
Moving a Print-Based Editorial Project into Electronic Form (rec'd 10/07/02) (KOO)
Hans-Walter Gabler
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
hans-walter.gabler@anglistik.uni-muenchen.de
Rights and Permissions in an Electronic Edition (rec'd 11/05/02) (KOO)
Mary Case
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication
Association of Research Libraries
and
David Green
Director, National Initiative of Networked Cultural Heritage
Collection and Preservation of an Electronic Edition (KOO)
Marilyn Deegan, Digital Resource Manager
Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University
6. Conclusion: Unsolved Mysteries
The Editors
7. Works Cited
The Editors
8. Companion CD (incl. text of the volume, TEI guidelines, example texts and images supplied by authors, example material from the TEI web site, Oxford TEI tools) (draft due Oct. 2003) (LB)
Total: 120,000-150,000 words