Advanced digital editing: modeling the text and making the edition

NEH Institute for Advanced topics in the Digital Humanities 2022

Rationale

Digital humanists already have access to workshops and tutorials to help them learn to transcribe, edit, and tag a text in preparation for publishing a digital edition. Nonetheless, sophisticated markup expertise alone is not enough to make an edition, and learning nothing more than tagging may leave scholars staring at their angle brackets and wondering what to do next. Digital humanists cannot build editions that break methodological ground solely on the basis of solutions prepared largely by others, and the focus of this Institute is on the creation of digital editions motivated by project-specific research questions and implemented from a perspective driven first by theory of edition, second by editorial methodology, and necessarily but less importantly by specific toolkits. In this respect, this Institute recognizes thinking digitally in ways driven by project-specific research goals as the most important feature of sustainable Digital Humanities training and education.

Instructors

	Clifford Anderson Vanderbilt University
	David J. Birnbaum Institute Director University of Pittsburgh
	Elli Bleeker Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
	Hugh Cayless Duke University
	Ronald Haentjens Dekker Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
	Gabi Keane Affirm, Inc.
	Leif-Jöran Olsson University of Gothenburg
	Chelcie Rowell Tufts University

Assistants

	Mason Gobat Institute Assistant University of Pittsburgh
	Emma Schwarz Senior Institute Assistant University of Pittsburgh

Guest lecturers

	Elisa Beshero-Bondar Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
	Chelsea Gunn University of Pittsburgh
	Shea Higgins The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
	Patrick Juola Duquesne University
	Jeffrey Witt Loyola University

Participants

Acknowledgements

	Advanced digital editing: modeling the text and making the edition is awarded by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) and co-funded by the NEH Division of Research Programs. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in materials developed for this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
	Additional support and assistance has been provided by the University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.
	Additional support and assistance has been provided by the University of Pittsburgh University Library System.
	We are grateful to the Center of Digital Humanities Research, Texas A&M University, for generously contributing complimentary copies of XQuery for humanists (part of the Coding for humanists series, Texas A&M Press) for the use of Institute participants.
	We are grateful to Erik Siegel (of Xatapult) and Adam Retter (of Evolved Binary) for generously contributing complimentary copies of the eXist book for the use of Institute participants.
	eXist-db is an open source native XML database and application platform, supported by eXist Solutions, GmbH.