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

gtt@gf.org

 

2.         Editors’ introduction  (rec'd)

                        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://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

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 (rec'd 11/18/02) (KOO)

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 (rec'd 10/27/02) (LB)

Bob Rosenberg, Edison Papers

Rutgers University

rarosenb@rci.rutgers.edu

 

Poetry (rec'd 10/7/02) (LB)

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 (rec'd 10/7/02) (JU)

            David Gants

            University of Georgia

            dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu

            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

Julia_Flanders@brown.edu

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

dirk.vanhulle@ua.ac.be

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

evanhoutte@kantl.be

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

Claus.Huitfeldt@hit.uib.no

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

D.C.Parker@bham.ac.uk

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

 meav@mail.rochester.edu

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

            amahoney@perseus.tufts.edu

            http://www.stoa.org/~mahoney/

 

           


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

hnd@virginia.edu

http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/duggan.html

and

            Eileen Fenton

Director of Production, JSTOR

egfenton@umich.edu

 

Levels of Transcription (rec'd 10/10/02) (LB)

Matthew Driscoll, MASTER & Medieval Nordic Text Archive

Det Arnamagnæanske Institut Københavns Universitet

mjd@hum.ku.dk

http://www.hum.ku.dk/ami/mjd/

 

Digital Facsimiles in Editing (rec'd 10/07/02) (JU)

Kevin Kiernan, Electronic Beowulf

University of Kentucky

kiernan@uky.edu

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

gcrane@emerald.tufts.edu

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/About/grc.html

 

Writing Systems and Character Representation (rec'd 10/07/02) (KOO)

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 (rec'd 10/16/02) (LB)

Patrick Durusau

Society of Biblical Literature

pdurusau@emory.edu

 

Storage, Retrieval, and Rendering (rec'd 1/30/03) (LB)

Sebastian Rahtz

Oxford University

sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk

 

When not to use TEI (rec'd 10/13/02) (JU)

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 (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

marycase@arl.org

            and

            David Green

            Director, National Initiative of Networked Cultural Heritage

            david@ninch.org

 

Collection and Preservation of an Electronic Edition (due 7/31/03) (KOO)

            Marilyn Deegan, Digital Resource Manager

            Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University

            marilyn.deegan@qeh.ox.ac.uk

           

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