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Summer2019 Session3

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Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Summer 2019

Session 3. Digital Scholarly Edition: Needs, Experiences, Possibilities

Thursday April 18, 17:00 - 18:15 CEST

Convenors: Neven Jovanović (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Classical Philology)

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPtFgu7JwTw

Slides: Digital Scholarly Edition, Neven Jovanović

Session outline

Edition ist die erschließende Wiedergabe historischer Dokumente. This is Patrick Sahle's German -- and, as he claims, untranslatable -- working definition of a scholarly edition. This session will first show, on examples from Greek and Latin literature, what this "erschließende Wiedergabe" came to mean in the medium of print; then we will demonstrate what it may mean in the digital medium. There is a lot of theorizing of digital scholarly editions, but for us the task can be formulated in a simple way: we want to make our knowledge about the text explicit and retrievable. The formulation might be simple, but its realization can be quite demanding -- and also inspiring, as we will show by briefly considering four case studies of digital scholarly editions of Greek and Latin texts.

  1. Introduction
  2. A scholarly edition: an example
  3. Why do we need scholarly editions? Another example
  4. A working definition
  5. Digital scholarly editions (DSE)
  • (Fundamental) requirements: explicit and retrievable knowledge
  1. DSE examples - how to find them?
  1. DSE case studies
  1. Conclusion and discussion

Seminar readings

Further reading

Essay

Reviewing a digital scholarly edition.

Exercise

Explore one of digital scholarly editions listed in Sahle's or Franzini's catalogue. Write a review of it (see "Essay" above) following the RIDE journal "Criteria for Reviewing Scholarly Digital Editions".

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