Anthology about critical textual editions in the digital age
A collaboration between French and Norwegian scholars has resulted in an anthology on digital critical editions, edited by Daniel Apollon and two French colleagues.
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Critical editions are a well-established scholarly genre where texts are published with explanatory notes to help the reader to understand a difficult or older text, and which may provide an apparatus that contextualises the text historically and in terms of research on it. As critical editions are increasingly published as or with parallel digital editions, research is needed on how best to develop this genre for a digital age.聽
Daniel Apollon is associate professor of Digital Culture at UiB's Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic 大象传媒, and has edited the anthology聽L'茅dition聽critique 脿 l'猫re du num茅rique聽with聽Philippe R茅gnier and聽Claire B茅lisle, who are both from聽Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Lyons. The research published in the anthology stems from a series of seminars organised in Lyons,聽Bergen and Oslo, with financial聽support from the Aurora program, which funds research collaborations between French and Norwegian scholars.聽聽
Several other UiB researchers are represented in the anthology. Odd Einar Haugen, professor of Old Norse, co-wrote the chapter聽"Le tournant num茅rique de la critique textuelle: perspectives historiques et typologiques" with Daniel Apollon, and also wrote a single-authored chapter,聽"La聽fabrique d'une edition num茅rique: les trois moments-cl茅s." Experts in text encoding from UiB's Department of Philosophy are also represented in the book:聽Claus Huitfeldt wrote the chapter "Syst猫mes de balisage de textes et 茅ditions num茅rique", and Alois Pichler and Tone Merete Bruvik have written the chapter "脡ditions critique et s茅paration de la description et de la pr茅sentation".聽
The book, which was published late in 2017, will be presented at a book launch in Paris later in 2018.