The Possibility of Creating Complete Works as Digital Archive : In Search of a New Age of Philology Based on Textual Scholarship

在这个项目中，我们试图调查当前在文本学术领域的理论讨论，特别是强调德国“学术编辑”（Editionswissenschaft）和英美文本研究之间的冲突和和解。此外，我们还尝试调查和分析了西方几个具有代表性的数字档案项目的实际应用情况。这些研究活动是通过组织工作车间、进行翻译项目和管理软件开发等进行的。其中最有成果的研究之一是这篇文章，它指出了关于书籍材料特征的“表征”的困境有可能将学术编辑领域转变为一个新的领域，可以称之为“档案学”。特别值得注意的是，这项研究如何为成功规划和组织国际会议“文本学术新方向”做出了贡献，这是该领域的第一次学术会议，于2010年3月在日本举行，也就是该项目的最后一年。

In this project we attempted to investigate the current theoretical discussions in the field of textual scholarship, especially highlighting the recent conflicts and rapprochement between German "Editionswissenschaft" (Scholarly Editing) and Anglo-American textual studies. Additionally we also tried to survey and analyze the practical applications of several representative digital archive projects in the western world. These research activities were carried out through the organization of work shops, conducting translation projects, and managing software development etc. One of the most fruitful inquiries is with the essay, pointing out the possibility that the dilemma concerning the "representation" of the material characteristics of books could transform the field of scholarly editing into a new field, which could be refered to as "Archival Science". What is of particular note is how this research contributed to the successful planning and organization of the international conference "New Directions in Textual Scholarship", the first academic meeting for this field in Japan which took place in March 2010 during the final year of the project.