Peter Shillingsburg

The dank cellar of electronic texts

The dank cellar surveys rather critically the litter of casualty electronic editions and the false bases and limited goals that informed so many early―that is, current―efforts; and it points hopefully to the best early, though still inadequate, efforts to provide electronic texts responsibly and with added scholarly value. It looks at some problems of representing Victorian fiction.

Reliable social scholarly editing

If Scholarly Editing means the exercise of textual criticism for the production of digital archives and editions, then crowdsourcing may produce more problems than solutions because a digital archive is a surrogate for material documents and a digital scholarly edition is a precise argument about the archive. But the analysis of the materials in the archive is truly a crowdsourcing task, for which adequate software design is still wanted and careful monitoring and vetting required.