Despite recent calls to explore the full potential of digital text, digital scholarly editing and publishing remain rooted in the cultural and structural logics of print. This volume provides a wide range of perspectives on the current state and future of the field in an effort to further that dialogue, and to encourage continued exploration of how we make and share knowledge and meaning in the digital age.
Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century brings together twenty chapters that cover practical design processes and conceptual approaches to editing born-digital material.
The collection also engages with timely, important, and often-neglected topics, including accessibility, artificial intelligence, queer approaches to editing, and the data edition.
By recognising the valuable insights and knowledge that can be gained from scholarly digital editions and by understanding the opportunities of their creative use, this volume emphasises how they can be made more widely available and relevant in various contexts beyond academia.
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 of 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 is Director of the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) at the University of Sheffield. He has over 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), xii Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century 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).
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.
