Modules outline - milnegeneseo/digital-scholarly-editing GitHub Wiki

A rough outline for the modules

These headings are envisioned as conceptual divisions but it might be helpful to imagine each occupying its own page.

  • What is this project?
  • What is scholarly editing?
    • The tradition of scholarly editing
    • Scholarly editing and types of reading
    • Three purposes of scholarly editing
      • Editing to improve
      • Editing to select
      • Editing to recover
    • Scholarly editing and textual criticism
    • Genetic editing
    • Walden as example
  • What is digital scholarly editing?
    • Affordances of the digital
      • Separation of encoding and output
      • Multiple outputs (textual transformation)
      • "Authoritative" vs. open-ended editions
      • Collaboration
      • Representing textual fluidity
  • Tools for digital scholarly editing
    • TEI
      • What is it?
      • TEI basics
    • Code editors and syntax checking
      • "Plain text"
      • Simple editors and cross-platform compatibility / accessibility
        • Notepad
        • TextEdit
        • Atom
        • VS Code
        • oXygen
    • IIIF
      • What is it?
      • Things you can do with images
  • Workflows for digital scholarly editing
    • Git
    • GitHub