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Online Scholarly Editions

Online Scholarly Editions. Introduction to Advanced Research Academic Technology Services. Overview. Contents Discussion Tasks Tools Design Resources. Contents of an Online Edition. Primary text Authorial documents in addition to basic text Second-party textual materials

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Online Scholarly Editions

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  1. Online Scholarly Editions Introduction to Advanced Research Academic Technology Services

  2. Overview • Contents • Discussion • Tasks • Tools • Design • Resources

  3. Contentsof an Online Edition • Primary text • Authorial documents in addition to basic text • Second-party textual materials • Editorial materials • Logical organization and easy navigation • Analytical tools (e.g. search engine)

  4. Contents > Primary Text • Logically selected, manageable textual content • For example: an edition of a single work, a group of works generically or chronologically grouped

  5. Contents > Authorial documents • adaptations • working notes • contracts • tables of contents • prefaces • abstracts

  6. Contents > Second-party materials • For Example: letters from respondents may be desirable in an edition of letters

  7. Contents > Editorial materials • prefaces and acknowledgments • lists of sigla, symbols, and abbreviations • textual essay • textual apparatus (notes or hyperlinks) • historical/interpretive essay • illustrations or charts, diagrams, maps • historical/explanatory notes • appendices • bibliography • glossary • index

  8. Contents > Analytical tools • For example: a search engine

  9. Contents > Organizational Tools • Table of Contents • Navigational Links

  10. Discussion • Examples • Rhetorical Questions

  11. Introduction > Examples • Early English Books Online • Classic for Young People's Gulliver's Travels • Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse Bibliography

  12. Introduction > More Examples • Victorian Women Writers Project • Early English Prose Fiction (login through BC Libraries) • Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia (login through BC Libraries)

  13. Discussion > Questions Who will read your text, why, and how? • Who is your audience? • Why are they reading it? • Is it a replacement for the original text? • How will they read it? Straight through? Printed out? • Which technologies are available to you? To your audience? • What is the future of this text? Is it part of a larger database project?

  14. Tasks • Document Analysis • Digitization • Markup and Organization

  15. Task > Document Analysis • Define project objectives • Explore document’s context • Define the document type • Decide which features to encode (See “Document Analysis” chapter Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice)

  16. Tasks > Digitizing • Scanning • Image capture • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) • Re-Keying

  17. Tasks > Mark-up/Organization • Creating pages for the web • Organizing content • Creating navigation for usability

  18. Tools

  19. Tools > Designer • Web Host (personal web account) • HTML Authoring software • Digitizing equipment • Browser

  20. Tools > Audience • Browsers • Speed of Internet Connection • Applications and Plug-ins

  21. Design • Segmentation • Organization • Navigation

  22. Design > Segmentation • Single Document (example) • Many Documents (example) • Frames (example)

  23. Design > Organization • Where should the content be broken in to separate pages? • In what order should the extra-textual material appear?

  24. Design > Navigation • Navigation with next/previous (example) • Navigation bar with frames (example) • Name Anchors (within documents, notes) • External Links

  25. Sources • MLA Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions • Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice

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