Authors
James O'Sullivan (ed), University College Cork; Michael Pidd (ed), University of Sheffield ; Bridgette Wessels (ed), University of Glasgow; Órla Murphy (ed), University College Cork; Michael Kurzmeier (ed), University College Dublin; Sophie Whittle (ed), University of Sheffield
Keywords:
digital scholarly editing, digital publishing, digital editing, digital editions, digital humanities, communications, textual scholarship, literary studies, digital literary studies
Synopsis
Writing in 2016, Joris van Zundert called 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 computationally tractable manner. Without that dialogue, he warned, we relegate the raison d’être 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. While such a dialogue has begun in earnest, digital scholarly editing and publishing remain rooted in the cultural and structural logics of print.
Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century collects a range of perspectives on the current state and future of digital editing and publishing, in an effort to further that dialogue and encourage continued exploration of how we make and share knowledge and meaning in the digital age.
The collection engages with timely and important topics which are often neglected, including queer approaches to editing, accessibility, editing and publishing in the age of artificial intelligence, and the data edition.
Chapters
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Introduction
Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century
James O'Sullivan
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‘The past went that-a-way’
editing in the rearview mirror?
Andrew Prescott
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Who are we editing for?
How digital publication changes the role of the scholarly edition
Cathy Moran Hajo
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Digital scholarly editing and the crisis of knowledge technology
Helen Abbott, Michelle Doran, Jennifer Edmond, Rebecca Mitchell, Aengus Ward
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Against infrastructure
global approaches to digital scholarly editing
Raffaele Viglianti, Gimena del Rio Riande
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Building accessibility
platforms and methods for the development of digital editions and projects
Erica Cavanaugh, Jennifer Stertzer
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Browse, search and serendipity
building approachable digital editions
Alison Chapman, Martin Holmes, Kaitlyn Fralick, Kailey Fukushima, Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar, Sonja Pinto
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Predicting the future of digital scholarly editions in the context of FAIR data principles
Bartłomiej Szleszyński, Agnieszka Szulińska, Marta Błaszczyńska
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Re-using data from editions
Elena Spadini, José Luis Losada Palenzuela
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Making digital scholarly editions based on Domain Specific Languages
Simone Zenzaro, Federico Boschetti, Angelo Mario Del Grosso
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Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century as a cooperative for small-scale editions
Juniper Johnson, Serenity Sutherland, Neal Millikan, Ondine Le Blanc
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The scholarly data edition
publishing big data in the twenty-first century
Gábor Mihály Tóth
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Close and distant reading in explorative editions
distributed cognition and interactive visualisations
Peter Boot
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Conviviality and standards
open access publishing after AI
Will Luers
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Beyond representation
some thoughts on creative-critical digital editing
Christopher Ohge
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Re-encoding dominance
queer approaches to TEI markup
Filipa Calado
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The ludic edition
playful futures for digital scholarly editing
Jason Boyd
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Seamless editions
a future imaginary of digital editions for learning and public engagement
Aodhán Kelly
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Digital scholarly editing in the early modern curriculum
Lindsay Ann Reid, Justin Tonra
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Mediating and connecting
versatile digital publishing in the Edison Papers
Caterina Agostini, Paul Israel
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‘The present therefore seems improbable, the future most uncertain’
transcending academia through Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum (1760–1)
Kelly J. Plante, Karenza Sutton-Bennett
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Conclusion
The future of digital editing and publishing
James O'Sullivan, Sophie Whittle
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Author Biographies
James O'Sullivan, University College Cork
James O’Sullivan lectures in the Department of Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where he is Director of Research for the School of English & Digital Humanities, as well as a member of the Research & Innovation Committee for the College Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. He is a member of the board of the Future Humanities Institute, for which he leads the Digital Cultures, New Media, & Cultural Analytics research cluster. He is the author of Towards a Digital Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan 2019). James has edited several collections of scholarly essays, including The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (Bloomsbury 2023) and Technology in Irish Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press 2023). He is the Principal Investigator (Ireland) on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age, funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities. See jamesosullivan.org for more on his work.
Michael Pidd, University of Sheffield
Michael Pidd is Director of the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield. He has nearly 30 years of experience in developing, managing and delivering large collaborative research projects and technology R&D in the humanities and heritage subject domains. During that time the DHI has been the technical partner in over 120 national and international projects with over 100 clients. He is the Principal Investigator (UK) on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age, funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities. Michael was Principal Investigator on the following projects: Connecting Shakespeare (HEIF), Dewdrop (Jisc), Reinventing Local Public Libraries (HEIF), and Manuscripts Online (Jisc); as well as Co-Investigator on Intoxicants and Early Modernity (ESRC/AHRC), Linguistic DNA (AHRC), Beyond the Multiplex (AHRC) and Ways of Being in the Digital Age (ESRC). He has been the technical lead on a wide number of projects, such as Digital Panopticon (AHRC).
Bridgette Wessels, University of Glasgow
Bridgette Wessels is Professor of Sociology and Social Inequalities at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on the development and use of digital technology and services in social and cultural life. This includes digital services and communication in the public sphere, everyday life and civic life, social and digital inequalities, as well as specific areas such as telehealth, mobile communication and privacy in digital communication. She is co-lead of the ESRC’s Productivity Institute’s Scottish Forum, as well as a founding member of the Digital Technology and Social Change hub of the European University Alliance CIVIS network. She has a strong track record of research funding from UKRI and the EU, as well as other research foundations. Bridgette is a Co-Investigator on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age, funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.
Órla Murphy, University College Cork
Órla Murphy is Head of the School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork. Her EU international leadership as service roles include National Co-ordinator of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, National Representative and vice chair on the Scientific Committee of CoST-EU, Cooperation in Science and Technology and National Representative on the Social Science and Humanities Strategy Working Group of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. Nationally, she is a board member of the Digital Repository of Ireland and co-chair of The Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository. Órla is a Co-Investigator on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age, funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.
Michael Kurzmeier , University College Dublin
Michael Kurzmeier is Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age project. His work revolves around the intersections of technology and society. His IRC-funded PhD thesis, Political Expression in Web Defacements, investigated political expression through hacking and introduces novel methods for retrieval and analysis of this special kind of archived web material. Michael is a chair of the research methods work group at the Aarhus-led Web ARChive studies network, researching web domains and events (WARCnet), as well as one of the founders of the Engaging with Web Archives (EWA) conference, Ireland’s first dedicated web archiving conference.
Sophie Whittle, University of Sheffield
Sophie Whittle is a Research Associate on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age project, responsible for developing a prototype online teaching edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale using machine assisted methods. Sophie has taught on modules in the history of English, historical pragmatics, research methods and syntax. She has co-ordinated interdisciplinary workshops on centring anti-racist research in the linguistics curriculum, inviting speakers from across the globe to present their research on the pragmatics of postcolonial communities, language and culture sharing and human rights, and has since become a member of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain’s racial justice subcommittee. She is also an organiser at the Sheffield Feminist Archive, and has recently contributed to the creation of a digital archive named Women in Lockdown, a project that houses women’s stories and experiences of the pandemic via oral history, testimony, diary entries and artwork submissions.
Copyright (c) 2025 James O'Sullivan, Michael Pidd, Sophie Whittle, Bridgette Wessels, Michael Kurzmeier, Órla Murphy
