Transforming Middlemarch: A Genetic Edition of Andrew Davies' 1994 BBC Adaptation of George Eliot's novel.

这项提案汇集了一系列学科，在档案理论，适应研究和数字人文，开发一种方法来生产第一个多媒体学术版的屏幕适应，使用安德鲁戴维斯（1994年）的6部分电视连续剧乔治艾略特的米德尔马契在1871年至1872年的8部分连载出版150周年。它将大量利用DMU种子资助的安德鲁·戴维斯论文数字化的材料，这些论文于2015年由作家捐赠给DMU的特别收藏，并且是2018年BBC纪录片的主题安德鲁·戴维斯：重写经典，包括特别收藏档案管理员凯瑟琳·肖特的贡献和材料项目。该项目将聘请15个月的博士后研究员（RF），Lucy Hobbs博士，在PI教授Justin Smith，Co-I教授Gabriel埃根，Co-I博士安娜布莱克威尔和助理档案管理员Natalie Hayton博士的监督下，设计戴维斯的米德尔马契的多层超文本，包括制作笔记，剧本草稿和与演员，制片人和导演的通信，以及来自英国广播公司，开放大学，BFI和大英图书馆由此产生的数字“基因版”将使用户能够遵循戴维斯的改编方法：他对原始来源的回应，他对剧本修改的广泛过程，以及他在排练之前和期间的创造性讨论和合作重新编辑。这个数字版将结合联合收割机与戴维斯和他的合作者的原始采访，从米德尔马契演员读摘录，从最终拍摄的生产和其他多媒体来源的档案证据是什么谎言的建设。它将为用户提供探索适应过程的新方法。该资源将在DMU和内布拉斯加大学林肯分校的乔治艾略特在线档案馆共同主办的开放获取网站上发布，该资源将由该项目的特别顾问贝弗利·梅里特博士（艾略特数字人文专家）进行beta测试。该资源对文学教师具有真实的教学潜力，并适用于从A级到研究生的改编。教育和学术出版商已经表现出极大的兴趣，并将被邀请参加BL学习日，与乔治艾略特奖学金的代表一起热衷于探索该资源的博物馆/遗产应用。这一应用技术的影响有可能改变用户对任何文学改编的体验。将在计划的活动中收集该版本用户的反馈。大英图书馆将举办乔治艾略特研究日（由安德鲁·戴维斯主持开幕），庆祝米德尔马契150周年，以新资源为中心，展示大英图书馆的乔治艾略特手稿和戴维斯的乔治艾略特论文。一个虚拟展览，包括戴维斯档案馆的遗传版本和材料，以及一个国际网络研讨会（涉及学者和学生）将由DMU和内布拉斯加州林肯共同主办，并将分享和辩论用户对资源的反应。RF Hobbs将保留该项目的智能手机视频日记，作为对过程的报告和对遇到的任何创意，技术，数据保护或法律的挑战的评论。Drs Hayton和Hobbs将共同撰写一篇关于构建多媒体基因版的好处和挑战的跨学科学术文章，该文章由档案评估和选择理论，版权法和数据保护协议提供信息，旨在图书馆杂志。该项目的工作将在专门介绍戴维斯工作的《适应》（OUP）杂志特刊上展示，该特刊由霍布斯和布莱克威尔共同编辑，并由DMU适应中心主任兼适应研究协会创始人Deborah Cartmell教授委托（赞助人Andrew Davies）。

This proposal brings together a range of disciplines, in archive theory, adaptation studies and digital humanities, to develop a methodology to produce the first multi-media scholarly edition of a screen adaptation, using Andrew Davies's (1994) 6-part television serialisation of George Eliot's Middlemarch during the 150th anniversary of its 8-part serialised publication in 1871-2. It will draw substantially on materials from the DMU seed-funded digitisation of the Andrew Davies Papers which were donated to DMU's Special Collections by the writer in 2015 and were the subject of a 2018 BBC documentary Andrew Davies: Rewriting the Classics, which included contributions from Special Collections Archivist Katharine Short and material items.The project will employ for 15 months a post-doctoral Research Fellow (RF), Dr Lucy Hobbs, under the supervision of PI Professor Justin Smith, Co-I Professor Gabriel Egan, Co-I Dr Anna Blackwell and Assistant Archivist Dr Natalie Hayton, to design a multi-layered hypertext of Davies's Middlemarch including production notes, screenplay drafts and correspondences with actors, producers and directors, and additional print, moving image and audio resources from the BBC, Open University, the BFI and the British Library. The resulting digital 'genetic edition', will enable users to follow Davies's approach to adaptation: his responses to the original sources, his extensive process of script revision, and his creative discussions and collaborative re-editing before and during rehearsals. This digital edition will combine original interviews with Davies and his collaborators, extracts from Middlemarch read by an actor, clips from the final filmed production and other multi-media sources with archival evidence of what lies beneath its construction. It will offer the user new ways to explore the process of adaptation. The resource will be launched on an open access website co-hosted at DMU and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's George Eliot online archive where it will be beta-tested by the project's special advisor, Dr Beverley Rilett (an Eliot digital humanities expert).This resource has real pedagogical potential for teachers of literature and adaptation from A-level to post-graduate. Educational and academic publishers have already shown significant interest and will be invited to the BL Study Day, alongside representatives from the George Eliot Fellowship keen to explore museum/heritage applications of the resource. The impact of this applied technology has the potential to transform the user's experience of any literary adaptation.Feedback will be collected from users of the edition at the events planned. The British Library will host a George Eliot Study Day (to be opened by Andrew Davies) celebrating the 150th anniversary of Middlemarch featuring the new resource at the centre of a presentation of the BL's George Eliot manuscripts and Davies' George Eliot papers. A virtual exhibition featuring the genetic edition and materials from the Davies archive, and an international webinar (involving academics and students) will be co-hosted by DMU and Nebraska-Lincoln, and will share and debate user responses to the resource. RF Hobbs will maintain a smartphone video diary of the project as a report on the process and commentary on any creative, technical, data-protection or legal challenges encountered. Drs Hayton and Hobbs will co-author a transdisciplinary scholarly article on the benefits and challenges of constructing a multimedia genetic edition informed by archival appraisal and selection theory, copyright law and data protection protocols, aimed at The Library journal. The project's work will be showcased in a special issue of the journal Adaptation (OUP) devoted to Davies's work, co-edited by Hobbs and Co-I Blackwell, and commissioned by Prof. Deborah Cartmell, Director of DMU's Centre for Adaptations and founder of the Association of Adaptation Studies (patron Andrew Davies).