Abstract
The paper describes the special interest among historians in scholarly editing and the resulting editorial practice in contrast to the methods applied by pure philological textual criticism. The interest in historical ‘facts’ suggests methods the goal of which is to create formal representations of the information conveyed by the text in structured databases. This can be achieved with RDF representations of statements extracted from the text, by automatic information extraction methods, or by hand. The paper suggests the use of embedded RDF representations in TEI markup, following the practice in several recent projects, and it concludes with a proposal for a definition of the ‘assertive edition’.
Highlights
The approach to scholarly editing used by historians differs from the approach used by literary scholars
The paper describes the special interest among historians in scholarly editing and the resulting editorial practice in contrast to the methods applied by pure philological textual criticism
The paper suggests the use of embedded RDF representations in Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) markup, following the practice in several recent projects, and it concludes with a proposal for a definition of the ‘assertive edition’
Summary
The approach to scholarly editing used by historians differs from the approach used by literary scholars. Both historians and literary scholars share an interest in a good text created by textual criticism, as texts are the main sources on which historians draw in their constructions of narratives about history. Vogeler for contemporary but absent clerks or for future clerks In other words, they stored data in texts written on paper. I will try to show that in digital scholarly editing the approach to editing used by historians can be reconciled with methods of textual scholarship. The method of assertive editing is not defined by disciplinary interests but by an interest in one facet of text: the information recorded. In the following I usually will oppose this ‘content’ to the ‘text’ as pure transcription and the result of textual critical work
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