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Editing
This page - under development - highlights writing about
editing of electronic publications.
Peter Shillingsburg's lucid Scholarly
Editing In The Computer Age: Theory & Practice (Ann Arbor, Uni
of Michigan Press 96) is essential reading. His General Principles
for Electronic Scholarly Editions (GPESE)
are complemented by the MLA's Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly
Editions (GESE).
The US Model Editions Partnership (MEP),
a consortium exploring techniques for exemplary online publication of
historical documents, includes markup guidelines on its site. The E-Docs
site offers an interesting
discussion list concerned with such activity.
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI),
described earlier in this guide, is an international project developing guidelines for encoding
text in electronic form for scholarly purposes, ideally in a
way that won't be superseded within a generation. Its guidelines and
standards are online.
We'll be featuring more information about the TEI and the associated
Encoded Archival Descriptions (EAD) in future.
For the
moment you might consult Michael Sperberg-McQueen's feisty 1994
paper
Textual Criticism & the Text Encoding Initiative and David
Seaman's article
Campus Publishing In Standardized Electronic Formats: HTML & TEI.
Scholarly Editing: A Guide To
Research (New York, Modern Language Association 95) and Textual
Scholarship: An Introduction (New York, Garland 94) by David
Greetham provide an authoritative introduction to editorial theory and
past practice. The otherwise excellent Journal Publishing, edited by Gillian Page, Robert Campbell & Jack Meadows
(Cambridge, Cambridge Uni Press 97) only scratches the surface
of publication in the digital environment.
The US Association for Documentary
Editing (ADE)
is primarily concerned with scholarly editing. We'll be featuring
information about similar bodies and conferences in future. A major
event was the 1997 conference
on Computing
the Edition: Problems in Editing for the Electronic Environment.
Among the more provocative writing
about the shape of editing and its implications are Mats Dahlstrom's 2000 paper
Digital Incunables: Versionality and Versatility in Digital Scholarly
Editions and Steven Johnson's 1995 Lingua Franca
article
Repossession, An Academic Romance: The Rossetti Archive and the Quest to Revive
Scholarly Editing about the TEI.
The Scholarly
Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
site features
information for journal editors and authors about standards and
e-publishing guidelines.
other publications
Our Design guide
identifies major books and studies about what works online for different
audiences. Other pointers are given in the Accessibility guide.
Given the diversity of
markets and expectations about the needs of different users there are no
universal standards for editing web publications. Empirical studies
suggest that some demographics are quite happy to scroll. Others regard
scrolling as anathema. Some skim the text online to determine whether
it's worth printing out for paragraph by paragraph reading.
If you're assembling a
'starter kit' we recommend Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usability:
The Practice of Simplicity (Indianapolis, New Riders 99) and the
papers on his Useit site.
They include the detailed paper on Concise, Scannable & Objective: How to Write for
the Web and the case
study on Applying
Writing Guidelines to Web Pages. The Sun Writing for the Web
guidelines,
reflecting studies by Nielsen and others, are online.
Journal of Electronic
Publishing contributor Thom Lieb's Editing For the
Web (EFTW)
offers a more relaxed introduction to editing online texts.
citations
Even more than for print, there's
disagreement within the scholarly and wider community about citation of
online resources. For the sake of readability on this site we haven't
included a citation after each hyperlink to another site.
Among academic citation models are
Nancy Crane's Electronic Sources: MLA Style of Citation
(Crane) and the
Modern Language Association's MLA
Style Guide. Many professional bodies are updating their print citation
guides to reflect online publication. The Library of Congress has produced a short guide
to Citing Electronic Sources, complementing the pointers on the IFLA site.
John Lamp's citation page
at Deakin University collects other models. The guidelines noted above also deal with citations.
The International
Standards Organization (ISO) standard
for bibliographic citation of online works is online (unlike many ISO
documents).
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