Resources

(This page will be updated frequently; it is not meant to be exhaustive.)

Good project examples

(Please note that any good project will share its XML.)

If you are interested in documentary editing, make sure to check Scholarly Editing, the Annual for the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE).

• of letters encoding:

  • Digital Mary Russell Mitford.

  • Van Gogh.

  • Mark Twain correspondence: Mark Twain Project edition of Mark Twain’s letters and the incoming letters to Mark Twain as part of an 1884 April Fools joke.

• of journals:

  • Christopher Cranch’s 1839 travel journal.
  • Shelley’s Frankenstein notebooks.

• quirky manuscripts:

  • Making and Knowing Project.

  • Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts.

• of drama:

  • Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Texts.
  • Shakespeare Quarto Archive.

• of poetry:

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti poems

• Early Modern print:

  • Early English Books Online text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)

• of a versioning edition:

  • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

• of a genetic text edition:

  • Samuel Beckett Archive

• of an eclectic text:

  • Mark Twain Project’s Writings section

• archive as edition model:

  • Melville Electronic Library.

  • Walt Whitman Archive.

• of marginalia:

  • Melville’s Marginalia Online.

  • John Stuart Mill Marginalia.

• variorum edition:

  • Donne Variorum.

Scholarly Societies

• Association for Documentary Editing (ADE).

• Society for Textual Scholarship (STS in the USA and ESTS in Europe).

ListServs

• SEDIT-L, a forum for scholarly editing.

• TEI-L, to post specialised questions about TEI encoding and to follow really important conversations about text encoding.

• Humanist listserv, for all kinds of digital humanities discussions and announcements.

And then there’s me! I’m happy to continue to be a resource. Email me at christopher.ohge@sas.ac.uk