98877 - Digital Scholarly Editing: Theory, Methods and Practice (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to present DSE Digital Scholarly Editions through a theoretical approach, showing the different typologies, the coding methods used to create them and some exemplary case studies of mono- and multi-text editions of literary texts (poetry and prose, epistolary and correspondence, essays). In the second part of the course, students will participate in the creation (design, marking, edition, visualization, publication) of a DSE, directly experimenting with the contents learned in the first part of the course,in order to deal critically with the problems linked to text criticism in the new digital ecosystem.

Course contents

1. THEORY: WHAT IS A DIGITAL SCHOLARLY EDITING (DSE); 2. THEORY: DSE AND DIGITAL ARCHIVES; 3. METHODS: DESIGN, MARKING; 4. METHODS: EDITION, VISUALIZATION; 5. CASE STUDIES: LETTERS; 6. CASE STUDIES: NOVELS; 7. CASE STUDIES: POEMS; 8. PRACTICE: INTRODUCTION TO LEOPARDI’S ZIBALDONE DSE; 9. PRACTICE: MARKING UP LEOPARDI’S ZIBALDONE; 10. FINAL PRESENTATION OF STUDENTS ZIBALDONE EDITIONS and TOWARDS A DSE OF BORN-DIGITAL WORKS and DSE and IA.

At the end of the course, participants will be able to take part in an educational visit in June 2024 to Recanati, in the home town of Giacomo Leopardi.

Readings/Bibliography

THEORY

Shillingsburg 2013 Shillingsburg, Peter. “Development principles for virtual archives and editions”, “Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship”, 2013. http://ecommons.luc.edu/ctsdh_pubs/4/

Wout Dillen, Elli Bleeker, Laura Esteban-Segura and Stefano Rosignoli 2021, Editors Preface to Textual Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century, “Variants” the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholalship, 15-16 (2021) https://journals.openedition.org/variants/1239 ; and Anne Baillot and Anna Busch Editing for Man and Machine. Digital Scholarly Editions and their Users (https://journals.openedition.org/variants/1220 ).

Dirk Van Hulle, 2021 Dynamic Facsimiles: Note on the Transcription of Born-Digital Works for Genetic Criticism, Variants (2021) https://journals.openedition.org/variants/1450

Lise Jaillant Arran Rise, Applying AI to digital archives: trust, collaboration and shared professional ethics, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 2, June 2023, Pages 571–585 https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/38/2/571/6832097

METHODS

Marjorie Burghart, Creating a Digital Scholarly Edition with the Text Encoding Initiative, DEMM, 2017 https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/project-result-content/cfb03c8e-6765-477e-aa4d-e2b162f57068/IO2_Creating%20a%20digital%20edition%20with%20the%20TEI.pdf

PRACTICE

Digital Zibaldone https://digitalzibaldone.net/

Silvia Stoyanova https://docenti.unimc.it/laura.melosi/teaching/2016/15930/files/introduzione

Zibaldone 100 UniBo-DHARC Digital Scholarly Edition (Zibaldone’s 100 pages Italian English Digital Scholarly Edition with EVT)

Teaching methods

Face-to-face classes and laboratory/workshop sessions of 10 lessons (30 hours). We will use EOL, Mentimeter Exercises, Php, Oxigen, EVT and audio materials available on VIRTUALE and video lessons taken from the ERC DIXIT Project [https://teach.dariah.eu].

Assessment methods

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The examination consists of

PART 1: Edition (/30). Xml/TEI marking of some pages of the digital critical edition that we will do together (edition, variants and annotation of sources); the student must then transform the XML/TEI file into HTML and present it in a Web application, adding some useful philological analysis tools. The pages and the edition must be submitted in a fortnight before the date on which the students want to take the exam.

Assessment.

• Outstanding [Eccellente] 30 e 30L

Correct marking, visualization and implementation of the platform very effective.

• Very Satisfactory [Molto buono] 27-29

Correct marking, visualization and effective platform implementation.

• Satisfactory [Buono] 24-26

Fairly correct marking, good visualization and implementation of the platform.

• Fairly Satisfactory [Sufficiente] 18-23

Marking not always correct, sufficient visualization and implementation of the platform.

• Did not Meet Expectations [Insufficiente] < 18

Incorrect marking, insufficient visualization and implementation of the platform.

 

To enter Part 2, you must have delivered and passed Part 1.

 

PART 2. AN ORAL EXAM (/30) in which students will show that they know the topics covered during the course and have studied the compulsory bibliography.

Assessment:

• Outstanding [Eccellente] 30 e 30L

Possessing a perfectly clear understanding of all course topics, having explored the topics in depth and using consistently correct linguistic terminology will be assessed with an Outstanding grade

• Very Satisfactory [Molto buono] 27-29

Possessing a clear understanding of all course topics, having explored all the topics and using correct linguistic terminology will be assessed with an Very Satisfactory grade.

• Satisfactory [Buono] 24-26

Mnemonic knowledge of all the course topics or not completely appropriate terminology will be valued with Fairly Satisfactory grade.

• Fairly Satisfactory [Sufficiente] 18-23

Mnemonic knowledge of some of the course topics or not appropriate terminology will be valued with Fairly Satisfactory grade.

• Did not Meet Expectations [Insufficiente] < 18

Teaching tools

TEAMS Digital platform, Stream Video and audio recording of the lessons, Php, Oxigen, EVT and didactic materials available on VIRTUALE and innovative Digital Scholarly Training video lessons taken from the ERC DIXIT Project https://teach.dariah.eu; Mentimeter Exercises; EOL Exam.

Office hours

See the website of Paola Maria Carmela Italia