Provocative yet sober, Digital Critical Editions examines how transitioning from print to a digital milieu deeply affects how scholars deal with the work of editing critical texts. On one hand, forces like changing technology and evolving reader expectations lead to the development of specific editorial products, while on the other hand, they threaten traditional forms of knowledge and methods of textual scholarship.

Using the experiences of philologists, text critics, text encoders, scientific editors, and media analysts, Digital Critical Editions ranges from philology in ancient Alexandria to the vision of user-supported online critical editing, from peer-directed texts distributed to a few to community-edited products shaped by the many. The authors discuss the production and accessibility of documents, the emergence of tools used in scholarly work, new editing regimes, and how the readers' expectations evolve as they navigate digital texts. The goal: exploring questions such as, What kind of text is produced? Why is it produced in this particular way?

Digital Critical Editions provides digital editors, researchers, readers, and technological actors with insights for addressing disruptions that arise from the clash of traditional and digital cultures, while also offering a practical roadmap for processing traditional texts and collections with today's state-of-the-art editing and research techniques thus addressing readers' new emerging reading habits.

| Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. HISTORY, CHALLENGES, AND EMERGING CONTEXTS 1. The Digital Turn in Textual Scholarship: Historical and Typological Perspectives Odd Einar Haugen 2. Ongoing Challenges for Digital Critical Editions Philippe Regnier 3. The Digital Fate of the Critical Apparatus Daniel Apollon and Claire Belisle 4. What Digital Remediation Does to Critical Editions and Reading Practices Terje Hillesund and Clai PART II: TEXT TECHNOLOGIES 5. Markup Technology and Textual Scholarship Claus Huitfeldt 6. Digital Critical Editing: Separating Encoding from Presentation Alois Pichler and Tone Merete Bru PART III. NEW PRACTICES, NEW CONTENTS, NEW POLICIES 7. The Making of an Edition: Three Crucial Dimensions Odd Einar Haugen 8. From Books to Collections: Critical Editions of Heterogeneous Documents Sarah Mombert 9. Toward a New Political Economy of Critical Editions Philippe Regnier Bibliography, Online Sources, Software Tools Contributors Index |"This is the first collection I have seen to address such a range of questions surrounding editing in the digital age, with a well-focused approach on key issues and offering a strong theoretical and historical background."—Peter Robinson, editor of Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM
"Recommended."—Choice

"An exciting and poignant contribution to the field of textual editing. . . .Digital Critical Editions represents the most comprehensive volume yet on this topic and one that every scholar and interested citizen should be proud to display on their bookshelf."—Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
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Daniel Apollon is an associate professor and head of the Digital Culture Research Group at the University of Bergen. Claire Bélisle is a researcher at the National Scientific Research Center at the University of Lyon. Philippe Régnier is director of research at the National Scientific Research Center at the University of Lyon.