Abstract
Scholarly digital editions of variants allow their readers access to the details of textual genesis and transmission: the possibly thousands of facts that together make up the history of the edited text.
We have, however, not done very well in providing researchers access to these riches. Yes, we have lists of variants, we have pop-ups, we have parallel views with additions and deletions. But we hardly have facilities that provide higher-level visualisations of the number and content of the changes made to the work in its various editions. We seem to want the reader to replicate the editor's voyage of discovery. We should try to create explorative interfaces that help the reader, and perhaps the editor, explore the edition's riches and to understand the essentials of the textual transmission. I will illustrate these ideas by sketches and a live preview for a prominent online variant edition, the Online Variorum of Darwin's Origin of Species created by Barbara Bordelejo.
We have, however, not done very well in providing researchers access to these riches. Yes, we have lists of variants, we have pop-ups, we have parallel views with additions and deletions. But we hardly have facilities that provide higher-level visualisations of the number and content of the changes made to the work in its various editions. We seem to want the reader to replicate the editor's voyage of discovery. We should try to create explorative interfaces that help the reader, and perhaps the editor, explore the edition's riches and to understand the essentials of the textual transmission. I will illustrate these ideas by sketches and a live preview for a prominent online variant edition, the Online Variorum of Darwin's Origin of Species created by Barbara Bordelejo.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 13 Apr 2023 |
| Event | ESTS 2023: Authorship, Identity, and Textual Scholarship: Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship - University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Apr 2023 → 14 Apr 2023 https://textualscholarship.eu/ests-2023/ |
Conference
| Conference | ESTS 2023: Authorship, Identity, and Textual Scholarship |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Canterbury |
| Period | 13/04/2023 → 14/04/2023 |
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