C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age

C21 Editions：数字时代的编辑和出版

基本信息

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

项目摘要

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版建议探索并直接为数字学术编辑和数字出版的未来做出贡献。当学者提到“学术版”时，它们通常是指专业精心策划的文本资源或收藏，旨在为特定的一组材料带来一些秩序或意义。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，提供了理解自己以及我们周围世界的过去，现在和未来所必需的文物和见解。数字人文学科的成就是其社区在将学术版本带入基于数字和网络的平台中所发挥的作用，通过更大的传播和访问来提高其研究，教学和社会价值。但是，尽管自DH出现以来三十年来已经实现了所有这些，但数字学术版目前仍处于越来越多的数字世界中过时的危险。大多数现有的数字版本和发布平台都模仿了书籍的结构，以基于页面的结构呈现静态内容。如果确实存在一些互动性，通常以基本的超链接到其他资源的形式。很可能很快，许多数字学术版将被简化为早期网络的库里奥。当我们考虑数字学术编辑的实践时，有明显缺乏机器学习技术，旨在支持策划和策划和文化材料的分析。关于如何最好地保存和分享二十一世纪我们理解文化和社会必不可少的诞生数字材料的共识和技术指导也有明显的共识和技术指导。例如，可以合理地期望未来的历史学家和公众希望使用前总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的推文的精心策划版本，并使用在线政治，媒体和社会话语的海洋中对他的信息做出了反应或提示。但是，目前，现在有可用的框架或平台来创建，呈现和维持此类版本。这正是C21版本的目的是纠正：通过与专家和利益相关者群体互动，该项目将建立方法和原理用于开发未来的学术数字版本。此外，它将通过基于目前未出版的材料生产两个高影响数字版来证明和支持实现此类未来版本的实现。这两个版本均可用来帮助开发和测试该项目提出的数据标准，用于编码出生数字文本和用于机器辅助编辑的工具包。这两个版本，数据标准和工具包将与爱尔兰国家图书馆等公共机构一起开发，并免费提供给其他学者和机构。从本质上讲，C21版本将作为对Joris van Zundert的回应，他致电Joris van Zundert关于理论家和从业者，要“加强“实施一种超文本形式的方法论话语”，以学术可行且可计算的可行方式真正代表文本流动性和文本关系”。他警告说，没有这种对话，“我们将Raison d'Etre降级为数字学术版本仅是中等转变，我们将其表现力限制在印刷文本上，并且我们无法探索数字文本的计算潜力表示，分析和互动。”