Digital Scholarly Editions

Ed. by Kathryn Sutherland et al. London: Centre for Computing in the Humanities / King's College London, 2011. "The Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand. Through digital reunification, it is now possible to access, read, and compare high quality images of original manuscripts whose material forms are scattered around the world in libraries and private collections. [...] The main resources in the digital edition are the manuscripts themselves, accessed through the manuscript menu and grouped chronologically and according to their material states as fair copies (the Juvenilia and Lady Susan), working drafts (The Watsons, Persuasion, Sanditon), and further materials. Each manuscript can be opened in a variety of ways: as facsimile pages which can be magnified using ‘zoomify’; as transcribed text set side by side with the original manuscript page; or through a Headnote that provides details of the manuscript’s history and physical description." [from resource]

CD-Ausgabe von Martin K. Foys. Woodbridge: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2002; ISBN 978-0953961047. Mit der CD-Publikation ist der online-Prototyp aus dem Netz genommen worden. Der Link zeigt auf die SDE-Seite zur Edition. Siehe zur Edition ggf. auch die Rezension bei H-Soz&Kult
In 2013 an online version was published: "This contains all the material of the CD-ROM version in a completely updated interface, running online through any up-to-date web browser. The online version also contains several features not present in the CD-ROM version." [from resource]

Directed by Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon. Brussels: University Press Antwerp et al., 2011. Contains the genetic editions "Stirrings Still / Soubresauts" and "Comment dire / what is the word".
"The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project [...] started from two initiatives: (1) the 'in-house' genetic edition of four works by Samuel Beckett, and (2) the Series of Variorum Editions of Samuel Beckett's Bilingual Works, initiated in 1986 by Charles Krance [... . T]hese initiatives were developed into the Beckett Digital Manuscript Archive, which combines genetic criticism with electronic scholarly editing, applied to the study of Beckett's manuscripts. The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project consists of two parts:
(a) a digital archive of Samuel Beckett's manuscripts, organized in 26 research modules. Each of these modules comprises digital facsimiles and transcriptions of all the extant manuscripts pertaining to an individual text, or in the case of shorter texts, a group of texts. (b) a series of 26 volumes, analyzing the genesis of the texts contained in the corresponding modules.
The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project aims to contribute to the study of Beckett's works in various ways: by enabling readers to discover new documents and see how the dispersed manuscripts of different holding libraries interrelate within the context of a work's genesis in its entirety; by increasing the accessibility of the manuscripts with searchable transcriptions in an updatable digital archive; by highlighting the interpretive relevance of intertextual references that can be found in the manuscripts. [... T]he project brings together digital facsimiles of documents that are now preserved in different holding libraries, and adds transcriptions of Beckett's manuscripts, tools for bilingual and genetic version comparison, a search engine, and an analysis of the textual genesis of his works." [from resource]

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Project lead by Maurizio Ghelardi. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 2015. "The whole corpus of letters to Jacob Burckhardt consists of about 1100 documents: by now [16.09.2015] are visible 600 missives. Yet, on the 28th September the map for geographical research and an additional assortment of letters will be released, while on the 12th October the advanced semantic research and further missives will be uploaded. The remaining letters will be published once every two weeks.
The Digital Library offers two versions for each letter: the default visualisation is the «Semantic edition». A special section is dedicated to «Metadata», where an extensive number of data establishes the letters context. The so-called «Collections» suggest a thematic navigation through the Digital Library. Still, an easy access to the letters is also handy through the metadata: Year, Sender, Compilation and Receving Place." [from mailing list announcement, 16.09.2015]

Ed. by David Hill Radcliffe. Blacksburg (VA): Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities (CATH), 2011. "LBT is a growing digital archive of books, pamphlets, and periodical essays illustrating the causes and controversies that preoccupied Byron and his contemporaries. The documents, large and small, ephemeral and monumental, underscore the social dimensions of publishing in the romantic era; the archive uses notes, commentary, and links to highlight relationships among their readers and writers. [...]
Documents made available through a Creative Commons license so that they can be freely circulated and reused for other purposes with only an acknowledgement of the source. As the semantic web develops in the years to come LBT will strive for integration with the expanding network of romantic texts on the internet, underscoring the social dimension of social-text editing." [from resource]
For a detailed project description see the "about page".

Ed. by Peter Robinson. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 2004; ISBN 978-1953961028 [individual license] / 978-1953961087 [institutional license]; CD-ROM. Eines der ganz großen paradigmatischen digitalen Editionsprojekte. Das Langzeitunternehmen, das bereits Anfang der 90er Jahre begonnen wurde, hat inzwischen zur Publikation einer ganzen Reihe von CD-ROMs geführt die zumeist bei "Scholarly Digital Editions" veröffentlicht worden sind.

Siehe ggf. auch den Eintrag im Wiki bei Digital Medievalist.

Ed. by Paul Thomas. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 2006; ISBN 0-953961-03-6 [individual license] / 0-953961-09-5 [institutional license]; CD-ROM. Siehe auch die Rezension dazu Rezension dazu von Susan Yager in Medieval Forum 6. Eines der ganz großen paradigmatischen digitalen Editionsprojekte. Das Langzeitunternehmen, das bereits Anfang der 90er Jahre begonnen wurde, hat inzwischen zur Publikation einer ganzen Reihe von CD-ROMs geführt die zumeist bei "Scholarly Digital Editions" veröffentlicht worden sind.

Siehe ggf. auch den Eintrag im Wiki bei Digital Medievalist.

Ed by Prue Shaw. Birmingham: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2010. "This DVD-ROM contains Prue Shaw’s transcripts, collations and analyses of seven key manuscripts of Dante’s Commedia, the most important single work in Italian literature and one of the masterpieces of world literature. The transcripts are accompanied by digital images of all pages of six of the manuscripts, all newly made in high-resolution full colour, and by the full text of the editions of Petrocchi and Sanguineti. A full word-by-word collation shows all variants at every word, viewable in either the original manuscript spelling or in a standardised form. Variant search and variant map features offer new ways of exploring the relations between the versions. Extensive editorial commentaries analyse the relations among the surviving texts, and examine the view of the tradition recently set out by Federico Sanguineti. Throughout, the publication interface provides access to every word in every version, to the variants on every word, and to tools and commentaries permitting exploration of the different versions." [from resource]

Hg. von Joseph Jung. Zürich: Alfred Escher-Stiftung, 2012. "Die Publikation der Korrespondenz Alfred Eschers erfolgt im Rahmen eines multimedialen Editionsprojekts. Die Briefe werden sowohl als gedruckte Reihe als auch online als digitale Edition publiziert. Für beide Publikationsformen gelten grundsätzlich dieselben editorischen Prinzipien. [...] Der bislang ermittelte Bestand an Briefen von und an Alfred Escher umfasst rund 4500 Schriftstücke. [... In der Erstveröffentlichung] sind 501 Briefe aus dem Zeitraum von 1831 bis 1848 bearbeitet und [...] verfügbar. Die Onlinesetzung der sämtlichen [...] Briefe aus dem Zeitraum von 1831 bis 1882 wird bis 2015 abgeschlossen werden." [from resource]
Die Edition bietet auf der Basis quellennaher Transkriptionen sowohl einen diplomatischen Text als auch eine edierte Textfassung mit kritischem Kommentar. Die Faksimiles sind so mit der Transkription verbunden, dass sie beim Lesen der Texte zeilenweise vergrößert dargestellt werden. Das Text-Image-Linking ist allerdings nur eines von zahlreichen bemerkenswerten Features. Hierzu gehört auch die Möglichkeit tiefer erschlossene Textstellen (z.B. Orte und Personen) farbig hervorheben zu lassen. Auch die verschiedenen Browsing-Zugänge, z.B. über eine Briefliste mit Filteroptionen, eine visualisierte Chronologie, über gut ausgebaute Personen- und Ortsregister oder über einen ausführlichen historischen Kommentar markieren einen state-of-the-art in digitaler Editorik. Schließlich besteht auch die Möglichkeit, die Edition über das Speichern von Einstellungen, Suchergebnissen oder Arbeitsmappen zu "personalisieren".

Herausgegeben von Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken, Silke Henke und Fotis Jannidis. Frankfurt am Main: Freies Deutsches Hochstift, 2018. "Die digitale Faustedition besteht aus einem Archiv der Handschriften und der zu Lebzeiten erschienenen textkritisch relevanten Drucke zum ‚Faust‘, einem konstituierten Text des ‚Faust I‘ und des ‚Faust II‘ sowie Visualisierungen zur Genese des Werks." [from resource]

Ed. by Tanya Clement. College Park (MD): University of Maryland, 2009. "The edition comprises digital surrogates and transcriptions of multiple manuscript versions of twelve poems by Freytag-Loringhoven. [... It is based on] TEI P5 XML-encoded transcriptions which comprise poetry drafts and scholarly annotations and introductions for each poem; the edition also includes images of original manuscripts as well as theoretical essays. Within the edition, these objects are incorporated into the free, open-source Javascript application called the Versioning Machine, which takes advantage of the TEI’s robust standards for parallel segmentation by allowing for cross-comparisons among the encoded texts. [...T]he Versioning Machine [has been augmented] specifically for this edition in order to incorporate intra- and inter-lineal comparisons. The digital surrogates of the poetry drafts and the TEI-encoded texts are cross-searchable with the UM Libraries’ other digital collections within the Libraries’ Fedora digital [r]epository system." (from a university libraries press release)

Ed. by Victoria Myers, David O'Shaughnessy and Mark Philp. Oxford: Oxford Digital Library, 2010.
"Godwin’s diary consists of 32 octavo notebooks [...] [with entries from] 6 April 1788 [...] [to] 26 March 1836. [...] The diary is a resource of immense importance to researchers of history, politics, literature, and women’s studies. It maps the radical intellectual and political life of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as providing extensive evidence on publishing relations, conversational coteries, artistic circles and theatrical production over the same period. One can also trace the developing relationships of one of the most important families in British literature [...] [and m]any of the most important figures in British cultural history feature in its pages.
The diary has been transcribed and encoded so that it is fully searchable. High resolution scanned images of the diary are also provided."
"The project has sought to code the diary so as to retain the richness and diversity of the information. Each element in a day’s entry has been coded so as to distinguish what Godwin read, what he wrote, whom he saw, where he saw them, in what activities or meals they shared, and where he went." [from resource]

Ed. by Alexander Huber. Oxford: Bodleian Libraries / University of Oxford, 2000-. [Selbstbeschreibung] "The Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Interactive Online Commentary" ist ein Hypermedia-Projekt zur Erforschung von Leben und Werk des englischen Lyrikers Thomas Gray. Die Site bietet sowohl annotierte elektronische Texte der anthumen englischen Lyrik Grays als auch weiterführende Sekundärliteratur, wie einen biographischen Abriss, eine chronologische Tabelle von Leben und Werk, eine Auswahlbibliographie, eine Galerie und Links zu verwandten Online-Ressourcen. Die Texte können sowohl über einen direkten Zugriff auf Textebene erforscht als auch mit einer Suchmaschine durchsucht werden. Der Nutzer hat dabei Zugriff auf einen umfangreichen Anmerkungsapparat, der ständig durch Kooperation von Wissenschaftlern erweitert werden soll. Eigene Anmerkungen können dabei direkt über ein Webformular zu jeder beliebigen Textstelle eingegeben werden.

Ed. by Paul Eggert. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2015-. "The Charles Harpur Critical Archive (CHCA) is a digital archive and a scholarly edition of the poetic works of Charles Harpur (1813–68). [...] The CHCA archives the basic materials for an edition (images and diplomatic transcriptions of the original documents, both handwritten and printed) and provides edited reading texts, together with textual commentary and explanatory notation. [...] [Amongst other features] the Multiway Compare Tool allows the reader to compare changes in the successive versions of the same work across biographical periods." [from resource]

Herausgegeben von Katharina Krüger, Elisabetta Mengaldo und Eckhard Schumacher. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016. "Zu Jugend liegt [...] ein über 1500 Seiten umfassendes Typoskript-Konvolut vor, dessen Anordnung vermutlich nicht auf den Autor, sondern auf den ersten Nachlassverwalter zurückgeht. Bei den Typoskripten, die von Koeppen selbst angefertigt bzw. einer Schreibkraft diktiert und die zudem häufig handschriftlich korrigiert wurden, wie auch bei den wenigen handschriftlichen Aufzeichnungen handelt es sich zumeist um vorbereitende Skizzen, Vorstufen und Varianten zu Passagen des späteren Buchtextes sowie um über Jugend hinausgehende literarische Entwürfe („Fragmente“) und poetologische Überlegungen bzw. schematische Übersichten („Notizen“). [...] Die 53 Abschnitte, die Koeppens Jugend unterteilen [...] bezeichnen wir als Sequenzen. Die Sequenzstruktur bildet zugleich das Ordnungsprinzip der textgenetischen Edition. [...] Drei verschiedene Zugänge ermöglichen den Einstieg in die textgenetische Edition. Der Zugang „Lesetext“ geht vom veröffentlichten Buchtext aus, über den Zugang „Texte“ kann der User alle Textträger des Jugend-Konvoluts aufrufen und durchsuchen, der Zugang „Textgenese“ ermöglicht eine Rekonstruktion der Entstehung von Jugend. Alle Zugänge sind miteinander vernetzt." [from resource]

Unter der Leitung von Wernfried Hofmeister. Graz: Institut für Germanistik / Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 2007-2010. Die "Augenfassung" als neue Präsentationsform der schon länger anhaltenden Editionsbemühungen geht auf eine bereits vorhandene "mikrographetisch aufbereitete Basistransliteration" zurück. Neben einer allgemeinen Suche bestehen Zugangsmöglichkeiten zum Text über eine Strukturansicht (mit Ordnungen nach Texten oder Folios) und zu den Faksimiles über eine Folioansicht, bei der auf ein besonderes Lupenwerkzeug hinzuweisen ist, mit dem für die Transkription zeilenweise die Handschrift dargestellt wird.

Ed. by Rob Iliffe and Scott Mandelbrote. Falmer: University of Sussex, 1998-. "Our aim is to make it possible, for the first time in history, to grasp the organic unity of Newton's writing by garnering all his astonishingly diverse productions into a single, freely accessible electronic edition. [...] This is not simply a matter of automated electronic reproduction. Newton's texts have been painstakingly transcribed from their original handwritten versions and electronically encoded in a form that allows users to view all the additions, deletions and other revisions that went into the creation of each document. Alternatively, the texts can be viewed in 'normalised' versions that are easier to read and closer to a traditional edition. [...] We are also providing digitised images of the original manuscripts, to enable users to verify the accuracy of our transcriptions for themselves. The result is a completely new type of edition, in which the editorial process is far more transparent than the medium of print permits." [from resource]

Ed. by Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker et al. Sheffield: HRIOnline, 2003-2018. Die ursprünglich gedruckte Fassung als Volltext (double-rekeying), der vor allem mit semantischen Auszeichnungen erschlossen ist. Editorische Kritik findet also nicht auf der Ebene der Texterstellung, sondern auf der Ebene der inhaltlichen Erschließung und der Generierung von browsenden und suchenden Zugängen und Hilfsmitteln statt.

Ed. by Jeffrey C. Witt. Boston (MA): Boston College, 2011. "This website presents a dynamic, electronic, critical edition of a medieval text that meets the established standards of traditional print editions. Thanks to new media tools, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Internet, and modern web browsers, this research site pushes scholarship beyond the limitations of the traditional printed codex." [from resource]
Contains first paragraphs, critically edited, with facsimiles from the manuscripts and various modes of text presentation and comparison.

Ed. by Jerome McGann et al. Charlottesville (VA): University of Virginia / Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, 2000-2008. "When completed in 2008, the Archive will provide [...] access to all of DGR's pictorial and textual works and to a large contextual corpus of materials [...]. All documents are encoded for structured search and analysis. The Rossetti Archive aims to include high-quality digital images of every surviving documentary state of DGR's works: all the manuscripts, proofs, and original editions, as well as the drawings, paintings, and designs of various kinds, including his collaborative photographic and craft works. These primary materials are transacted with a substantial body of editorial commentary, notes, and glosses." [from resource]

Projektleitung Wolfgang Lukas und Michael Scheffel. Wuppertal: Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 2018. "Ziel des Projekts ist die Erarbeitung einer digitalen historisch-kritischen Edition der literarischen Werke Arthur Schnitzlers aus dem Zeitraum von 1905 bis 1931." [from resource]

Directed by Ronald Milne and John Tuck. London: British Library, 2007. "Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament." [from resource] The edition contains high-quality images, physical descriptions, transcriptions, critical annotations and translations.

Coordinated by Sukanta Chaudhuri, executed by the School of Cultural Texts and Records. Kolkata: Jadavpur University, 2011-. "Bichitra is the biggest integrated knowledge site devoted to any author in any language to date. It comprises most versions of nearly all Rabindranath’s works in Bengali and English. It excludes most letters, speeches, textbooks and translations, except Tagore’s translations from his own Bengali. It includes digital images of virtually all his manuscripts and authoritative print versions (47,520 pages of manuscripts and 91,637 pages of printed books and journals); plain-text transcripts of all these versions; a search engine to locate words and phrases in Rabindranath’s works; a collation engine to compare different versions of a work at three levels, section (chapter, act/scene, canto or other large unit), segment (paragraph, dramatic speech or stanza), and detailed wording; a checklist of the contents of each manuscript; [and] a bibliography of all authoritative manuscript and print versions of each work" [from resource]
There is also a very useful introductory video on YouTube.

Directed by Paul Schacht. State University of New York at Geneseo, Thoreau Society, Walden Woods Project, s.a. [probably 2014]. "Digital Thoreau is a resource and a community dedicated to promoting the deliberate reading of Thoreau's works in new ways, ways that take advantage of technology to illuminate Thoreau's creative process and facilitate thoughtful conversation about his words and ideas." [from resource]
It features different sub-projects like "Walden : A Fluid Text Edition" or "The Readers' Thoreau".

Ed. by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker. Den Haag: Huygens Institute, 2012-. "All the surviving letters written and received by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are contained in this edition of his correspondence. [... It] include[s] not only complete facsimiles, but also the texts of Van Gogh’s letters in a parallel reading text version that retains the line breaks of the originals, a reading text version with continuous text, and a new English translation that renders the meaning of the original as faithfully as possible and is consequently not literary or interpretive.
The commentary, and in particular the annotations, is as complete as possible and as exhaustive as [...] was necessary to clarify the content of the letters – sometimes in a very nuanced or detailed manner – for modern readers. [The editors] have as far as possible identified Van Gogh’s literary and visual sources and illustrated all the works of art that could be traced. [...] The twofold objective behind all this was to publish Van Gogh’s letters as he wrote and intended them, and to place the correspondence as a whole in its historical context. The introductory chapters likewise serve this purpose." [from resource]

Hg. von Bert Van Raemdonck. Gent: Universiteit Gent / KANTL, 2011. "Het corpus omvat 1.419 brieven. Ze zijn getranscribeerd, gecodeerd en geannoteerd volgens de DALF Guidelines van het Centrum voor Teksteditie en Bronnenstudie (CTB-KANTL).
De geannoteerde brieven bevatten o.m. verwijzingen naar bijna 2.500 personen, 500 plaatsnamen, 1.000 titels van boeken, 650 tijdschriftartikelen en 350 gedichten. Een netwerk van 3.600 hyperlinks maakt een intuïtief en associatief gebruik van het corpus mogelijk.
Het corpus omvat behalve een kritische en een diplomatische transcriptie van alle bronnen ook een gedetailleerde beschrijving van alle relevante metadata en meer dan 3.000 digitale facsimile-afbeeldingen." [from resource]
"This fully eXist-driven web interface allows users to browse, search, view, and export the encoded letters or custom selections of letters in various formats: XHTML, XML, PDF. The letters can be visualized as reading text, diplomatic transcription, or XML source view, and facsimiles are offered where available. Most of these 1500 letters are in Dutch (180 are in French), and all of them deal with the Flemish literary journal 'Van Nu en Straks' (1893-1901). The encoding of the letters follows the DALF Guidelines for the Description and Encoding of Modern Correspondence Material (see http://www.kantl.be/ctb/project/dalf/ ), a customization of the TEI P4 Guidelines. So far, all information in the edition is in Dutch. An English version of the edition interface is available." [from mail to Hmanist Discussion Group]

Bajo la dirección de Marco Presotto. Barcelona/Bologna: PROLOPE / Università di Bologna, CRR-MM, 2015; ISBN 9788898010257. doi:10.6092/UNIBO/LADAMABOBA "El proyecto que aquí presentamos ofrece una aplicación web de carácter científico dedicada a La dama boba y a su tradición textual, uniendo el interés divulgativo con la atención a los aspectos ecdóticos. Esta edición en línea pone a disposición el texto crítico con su aparato de variantes y notas complementarias pero también, por primera vez, un archivo de los testimonios utilizados y su transcripción." [from resource]

Directed by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco. Pisa: CISIAU / Laboratorio di Cultura Digitale, 2013. "After years of hard work, the Digital Vercelli Book is now online! This is a beta version though, lacking several features that will be present in the final edition, scheduled for publication in 2014. At the moment only two texts, The Dream of the Rood and Homily 23, are available: the plan is to improve the current user interface and software on the basis of the suggestions and comments that will be sent to us, publish the revised software at some point next year and then progressively put online all the texts after a final cross-revision has been accomplished.
The Digital Vercelli Book (beta) is available at this URL: http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/beta/.
Most of the basic features are already in place, once the site has been loaded on your browser you can navigate the manuscript in one of three modes selectable through the icons on the upper right corner:
Image|Text mode: a manuscript image and the corresponding text in two separate frames, this is the default browsing mode;
Text|Text mode: two juxtaposed text frames, at the moment you can compare the two different edition levels, in the future this feature will be enriched by other types of accompanying texts, such as a commentary, critical editions, translations etc.);
Bookreader mode: this mode will present you with the manuscript images in the “double page” format." [from resource, 2013-12-30]

Unter der Leitung von Joachim Veit. Detmold: Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Hochschule für Musik, 2011-. "Die WeGA [... hat das] Ziel, bis zum 200. Todestag Webers im Jahr 2026 seine sämtlichen Kompositionen, Briefe, Tagebücher und Schriften in einer wissenschaftlich-kritischen Gesamtausgabe vorzulegen. [...] Alle Textteile (d.h. ausschließlich der Notentexte) werden zunächst [...] als Digitale Edition publiziert."
Diese umfasst seit 2011 ein erstes größeres Textkorpus der Edition der Briefe, Tagebücher, Schriften und Dokumente Webers.

Ed. by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price. Lincoln (NE): University of Nebraska, 1995-. Ein umfangreiches digitales Archiv, das sich selbst aber sehr wohl als "Edition" der Werke Whitmans versteht. Einige Werke als Volltexte, die Manuskripte als Faksimiles mit diplomatisch genauem Text. Umfassendes Kontextmaterial (Bibliographie, Biographie, Rezensionen, Fotogalerie, Schüler). Technisch ist das Archiv im Jahr 2000 von HTML auf XML nach einer für das Projekt erweiterten TEI-DTD umgestellt worden (siehe die "Encoding Guidelines for Poetry Manuscripts"). Zusätzlich werden EAD (für die Beschreibung von Archivalien) und METS für komplexe digitale Objekte verwendet.
Introductory YouTube video from 2011