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This is the fourth volume of our Digital Humanities Series: ISSN (Print): 2054-2410 ISSN (Online): 2054-2429 ISBN Paperback: 978-1-78374-238-7 ISBN Hardback: 978-1-78374-239-4 ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-78374-240-0 ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-78374-241-7 ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 978-1-78374-242-4 DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0095 Cover photo: (Upper) Edda Rhythmica seu Antiqvior, vulgo Sæmundina dicta, vol. I (Copenhagen, 1787), p. 53 with comments by Gunnar Pálsson (1714–1791). Image © Suzanne Reitz, CC BY 4.0. (Lower) Clive Darra, ‘Keyboard’ (2009). © Clive Darra, CC BY-SA 2.0 Cover design: Heidi Coburn All paper used by Open Book Publishers is SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative), PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes) and Forest Stewardship Council(r)(FSC(r) certified. Printed in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia by Lightning Source for Open Book Publishers (Cambridge, UK) Contents Notes on Contributors vii Foreword xiii Hans Walter Gabler 1. Introduction: Old Wine in New Bottles? 1 Matthew James Driscoll and Elena Pierazzo SECTION 1: THEORIES 2. What is a Scholarly Digital Edition? 19 Patrick Sahle 3. Modelling Digital Scholarly Editing: From Plato to 41 Heraclitus Elena Pierazzo 4. A Protocol for Scholarly Digital Editions? The Italian 59 Point of View Marina Buzzoni 5. Barely Beyond the Book? 83 Joris van Zundert 6. Exogenetic Digital Editing and Enactive Cognition 107 Dirk Van Hulle 7. Reading or Using a Digital Edition? Reader Roles in 119 Scholarly Editions Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen SECTION 2: PRACTICES 8. Building A Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript 137 Ray Siemens, Constance Crompton, Daniel Powell and Alyssa Arbuckle, with Maggie Shirley and the Devonshire Manuscript Editorial Group 9. A Catalogue of Digital Editions 161 Greta Franzini, Melissa Terras and Simon Mahony 10. Early Modern Correspondence: A New Challenge for 183 Digital Editions Camille Desenclos 11. Beyond Variants: Some Digital Desiderata for the Critical 201 Apparatus of Ancient Greek and Latin Texts Cynthia Damon 12. The Battle We Forgot to Fight: Should We Make a Case 219 for Digital Editions? Roberto Rosselli Del Turco Bibliography 239 Index 263 Notes on Contributors Alyssa Arbuckle is the Assistant Director, Research Partnerships & Development, in the Electronics Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria, B.C., in Canada, where she works with the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) group and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). Alyssa holds an MA in English from the University of Victoria and a BA Honours in English from the University of British Columbia. Her studies have centred on Digital Humanities, digital editions, new media and contemporary American literature. Her work has appeared in Digital Studies, Digital Humanities Quarterly and Scholarly and Research Communication, and she has given presentations, run workshops or coordinated events in Canada, Australia and the US. Marina Buzzoni is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology and Historical Linguistics at Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy. Her major scientific interests include Germanic diachronic linguistics, translation studies, textual criticism and digital editing—fields in which she has published numerous papers and scholarly contributions, as well as four monographic volumes. She has taken part in various national and international research projects, the latest of which focus on digital scholarly editing. Constance Crompton is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and English, and Director of the Humanities Data Lab at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. She is a researcher with Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) and, with Michelle Schwartz, co-directs Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada. She serves as the associate director of the Digital Humanities Summer viii Digital Scholarly Editing Institute and as a research collaborator with The Yellow Nineties Online. Her work has appeared in several edited collections as well as the Victorian Review, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the UBC Law Review, Digital Humanities Quarterly and Digital Studies/Champs Numerique. Cynthia Damon is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She is the author of The Mask of the Parasite: A Pathology of Roman Patronage (1997), a commentary on Tacitus’ Histories 1 (2003), a translation of Tacitus’ Annals in the Penguin series (2013), and, with Will Batstone, of Caesar’s Civil War (2006). She recently published an Oxford Classical Texts edition of Caesar’s Bellum civile with a companion volume on the text (2015), as well as a new Loeb edition of the Civil War (2016). She is currently preparing a pilot edition of the Bellum Alexandrinum for the Library of Digital Latin Texts. Camille Desenclos has since September 2015 been Maître de conférences (Associate Professor) at Université de Haute-Alsace. She gained her PhD in 2014 in early modern history with a thesis on ‘The Words of Power: The Political Communication of France in the Holy Roman Empire (1617–1624)’ at the École Nationale des Chartes under the supervision of Prof. Olivier Poncet. Her research interests focus on the history of diplomacy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in particular the relationship between France and the Holy Roman Empire, with special emphasis on diplomatic writing practices. She has produced two digital editions of correspondence: letters from the embassy of the Duke of Angoulême (1620–1621) and by Antoine du Bourg (1535–1538). Matthew James Driscoll is Senior Lecturer in Old Norse philology at Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, a research institute within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include manuscript and textual studies, with special focus on popular manuscript culture in late pre-modern Iceland. He is also keenly interested in the description and transcription of primary sources, and has a long-standing involvement in the work of the Text Encoding Initiative, serving on the TEI’s Technical Council from 2001 until 2010. From 2011 to 2015 he was involved in the research networking programme of NeDiMAH (Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities), funded by the European Science Foundation, and acted as chair of its working group on digital scholarly editions. Notes on Contributors ix Greta Franzini is a PhD student at University College London’s Centre for Digital Humanities, where she conducts interdisciplinary research in Latin philology, manuscript studies and digital editing. Her interests lie in the application of digital technologies to the study of Classical texts and in the interdisciplinary research opportunities offered by digital scholarly editions. Greta is also an early career researcher at the University of Göttingen, where she is involved in research pertaining to historical text re use, natural language processing and text visualisation. Hans Walter Gabler is Professor of English Literature (retired) at the University of Munich, Germany, and Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, London University. From 1996 to 2002 in Munich, he directed an interdisciplinary graduate programme on ‘Textual Criticism as Foundation and Method of the Historical Disciplines’. He is editor- in-chief of the critical editions of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1984/1986), A Portrait of the Artist