New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 2

Electronic Publishing: Politics and Pragmatics

Edited by Gabriel Egan
2010 | 218 + viii pp. | 19 ills. | Cloth | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-449-2 | MRTS 401
$52 | £40

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The technologies, economics, and politics of scholarly publication in the humanities will change rapidly in the near future. New electronic publication technologies that do not require large investments of capital—printing presses, warehouses, transport—generate powerful forces directing academic authors away from traditional print publication. This book brings together a team of academics experienced in this new field to explore the practical aspects of electronic publication and reflect on the politics of the knowledge landscape that is emerging. Their accounts of such practical matters as Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and coding standards form part of a larger consideration of the new knowledge economy and how the humanities disciplines will fare in a world that increasingly trusts its cultural heritage to magnetism and laser optics rather than inks and paper.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Peter Shillingsburg: The impact of computers on the art of scholarly editing

  • 2. Robert Whalen: Digitizing George Herbert’s Temple

  • 3. Jeff Smith: A first-principles reinvention of software tools for creative writing and text analysis in the twenty-first century

  • 4. Alan Galey: Mechanick exercises: The question of technical competence in digital scholarly editing

  • 5. Ian Lancashire: SGML, Interpretation, and the two muses: A critique of TEI P3 from the end of the century

  • 6. Murray McGillivray: Lancashire's Two muses: A belated reply

  • 7. Peter Robinson: How we been publishing the wrong way, and how we might publish a better way

  • 8. Shawn Martin: Open access and digital libraries: A case study of the Text Creation Partnership

  • 9. Paul Vetch: From edition to experience: Feeling the way towards user focussed interfaces

  • 10. Martin Mueller: The book of English: Towards digital intertextuality and a second-generation digital library

  • John Lavagnino: Afterword