C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age

C21 Editions：数字时代的编辑和出版

• 批准号: AH/W001489/1
• 负责人: Michael Pidd
• 金额: $ 41.21万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW001489%2F1
• 关键词: C21; Editions; Editing; Publishing; Digital

C21 Editions proposes to explore and make a direct contribution to the future of digital scholarly editing and digital publishing. When academics mention "scholarly editions", they are typically referring to expertly curated textual resources or collections, designed to bring some sense of order or meaning to a particular set of materials. Scholarly editing, and the publishing practices that bring such efforts to the public, are hugely important to culture and society, providing the artifacts and insights necessary for understanding ourselves and the past, present, and future of the world around us.One of the major achievements of the digital humanities is the role its community has played in bringing scholarly editions to digital and web-based platforms, improving their research, pedagogical, and societal value through greater dissemination and access. However, despite all that has been achieved in the three or so decades since DH emerged, the digital scholarly edition is now in danger of becoming obsolete in an increasingly digital world. Most existing digital editions and publishing platforms mimic the structure of books, presenting static content in a page-based structure. Where some interactivity does exist, it is usually in the form of basic hyperlinks to other resources. It is quite possible that very soon, many digital scholarly editions will have been reduced to a curio of the early web.When we look at the practice of digital scholarly editing, there is a marked lack of machine learning techniques designed to support the curation and analysis of cultural materials. There is also a marked lack of consensus and technical guidance on how best to preserve and share born-digital materials essential to our understanding culture and society in the twenty-first century. For example, it is reasonable to expect that future historians and the general public will want a critically curated edition of the former President Donald Trump's tweets, contextualised using the sea of online political, media and social discourse that his messages either responded to or prompted. However, right now, there is now readily available framework or platform for creating, presenting, and sustaining such an edition.This is precisely was C21 Editions aims to remedy: by engaging with experts and stakeholder groups, the project will establish the methods and principles for developing the scholarly digital editions of the future. Furthermore, it will demonstrate and support the realisation of such future editions by producing two high impact digital editions based on materials which are currently unpublished. Both editions will be used to help develop and test the project's proposed data standard for encoding born-digital texts and a toolkit for machine-assisted editing. The two editions, data standard and toolkit will be developed in conjunction with public bodies such as the National Library of Ireland and made freely available to other scholars and institutions.In essence, C21 Editions will operate as a response to Joris van Zundert, who calls on theorists and practitioners to "intensify the methodological discourse" necessary to "implement a form of hypertext that truly represents textual fluidity and text relations in a scholarly viable and computational tractable manner". He warns that, without that dialogue, "we relegate the raison d'etre for the digital scholarly edition to that of a mere medium shift, we limit its expressiveness to that of print text, and we fail to explore the computational potential for digital text representation, analysis and interaction."

C21 Editions致力于探索数字学术编辑和数字出版的未来，并为之做出直接贡献。当学者们提到“学术版”时，他们通常指的是经过专业整理的文本资源或集合，旨在为一组特定的材料带来某种秩序感或意义。学术编辑，以及将这种努力带给公众的出版实践，对文化和社会非常重要，为了解我们自己以及我们周围世界的过去、现在和未来提供了必要的人工制品和见解。数字人文学科的主要成就之一是其社区在将学术版本带到数字和基于网络的平台上，通过更广泛的传播和访问提高其研究、教学和社会价值方面所发挥的作用。然而，尽管自DH出现以来的三十年左右取得了所有这些成就，但在日益数字化的世界中，数字学术版现在有过时的危险。大多数现有的数字版本和出版平台都模仿书籍的结构，以基于页面的结构呈现静态内容。在确实存在一些交互性的地方，它通常以指向其他资源的基本超链接的形式存在。很有可能在不久的将来，许多数字学术版本将沦为早期网络的古玩。当我们观察数字学术编辑的实践时，明显缺乏旨在支持文化材料的管理和分析的机器学习技术。在如何最好地保存和分享对我们理解21世纪的文化和社会至关重要的数字化材料方面，也明显缺乏共识和技术指导。例如，我们有理由期待，未来的历史学家和普通公众会想要一份对美国前总统唐纳德•特朗普（Donald Trump）的推文进行严格策划的版本，并利用他的信息所回应或引发的网络政治、媒体和社会话语的海洋来进行背景化。然而，现在有现成的框架或平台来创建、呈现和维护这样的版本。这正是C21 Editions旨在解决的问题：通过与专家和利益相关者团体的合作，该项目将为开发未来的学术数字版本建立方法和原则。此外，它将通过基于目前未出版的材料制作两个高影响力的数字版本来展示和支持这些未来版本的实现。这两个版本都将用于帮助开发和测试该项目提出的用于编码原生数字文本的数据标准和用于机器辅助编辑的工具包。数据标准和工具包这两个版本将与爱尔兰国家图书馆等公共机构共同开发，并免费提供给其他学者和机构。从本质上讲，C21 Editions将作为对Joris van Zundert的回应，他呼吁理论家和实践者“加强方法论话语”，以“实现一种真正代表文本流动性和文本关系的超文本形式，以一种学术上可行和计算上可处理的方式”。他警告说，如果没有这种对话，“我们将数字学术版的存在理由降级为仅仅是一种媒介的转变，我们将其表现力限制为印刷文本，我们无法探索数字文本表示、分析和互动的计算潜力。”

项目成果

Building a digital edition from archived social media content

从存档的社交媒体内容构建数字版本

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8107478
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Kurzmeier M

Visualizing Digital Scholarly Editions

可视化数字学术版本

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Kurzmeier M

Visualising the Catalogues of Digital Editions (forthcoming)

可视化数字版本目录（即将发布）

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts
• 作者: Kurzmeier M