On edited archives and archived editions | SpringerLink Advertisement Search Log in Search SpringerLink Search Associated Content Part of a collection: Special Issue on Digital Scholarly Editing Research Article Published: 29 April 2019 On edited archives and archived editions Wout Dillen1  International Journal of Digital Humanities volume 1, pages263–277(2019)Cite this article 774 Accesses 3 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Building on a longstanding terminological discussion in the field of textual scholarship, this essay explores the archival and editorial potential of the digital scholarly edition. Following Van Hulle and Eggert, the author argues that in the digital medium these traditionally distinct activities now find the space they need to complement and reinforce one another. By critically examining some of the early and more recent theorists and adaptors of this relatively new medium, the essay aims to shed a clearer light on some of its strengths and pitfalls. To conclude, the essay takes the discussion further by offering a broader reflection on the difficulties of providing a ‘definitive’ archival base transcription of especially handwritten materials, questioning if this should be something to aspire to for the edition in the first place. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution. Access options Buy single article Instant access to the full article PDF. US$ 39.95 Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout. Rent this article via DeepDyve. Learn more about Institutional subscriptions Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Notes 1.As Patrick Sahle posited the second part of his Digitale Editionsformen: ‘Das Kennzeichen des gegenwärtigen Medienwandels ist nicht so sehr ein Wechsel des Medien, sondern vielmehr ein Transmedialisierung!’ (2013: 161; see also 162). 2.In ‘Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What’s in a Name?’ Price weighed a series of alternatives against one another and makes a case for switching to the concept of ‘arsenal’ instead (2009). 3.See: http://www.beckettarchive.org/introduction.jsp. Note the use of the word ‘series’ here, another term to add to the list – and one that is again perhaps more firmly rooted in print culture. 4.Gerrit Brünning, one of the collaborators on the Faust Edition explained as much at a talk that he gave at the University of Antwerp as part of the Platform Digital Humanities Lecture Series (26 March 2018). 5.More specifically, Eggert mentions the ISO-646 character set. This character set is a successor of ASCII (the American Standard Code of Information Interchange), and the predecessor of today’s international standard character set called Unicode. 6.In fact, Shillingsburg’s own list of these ‘visual elements with semantic force’ for manuscripts explicitly includes ‘insertions above and below lines and in margins’ (2015, 17). 7.In his paper, Shillingsburg foresees two exceptions to this rule: ‘a new authoritative witness to the work or the discovery of error in the original work’ (2015: 24). 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