Category Archives: Publishing

Posts about scholarly and trade publishing, peer review, publishers, journals, books, ebooks, and so on.

Let’s Build an Edition!

Posted on April 8, 2016 by cforster

Related to my other proposal—a sort of general discussion of text encoding—I wonder if anyone would be interested in trying to put ideas about text encoding into practice by trying to imagine into existence a small mini-edition of some interesting but … Continue reading →

Categories: Coding, Collaboration, Copyright, Crowdsourcing, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Editions, Session Proposals, Session: Make | Comments Off on Let’s Build an Edition!

All Variously Imperfect: The Problem of Representing Text Digitally

Posted on April 8, 2016 by cforster

I continue to be fascinated by the fundamental problem of representing texts—I’m thinking of literary texts in particular (and, lately, poetry, especially), and the many solutions (all variously imperfect) that people use. I have in mind all the various technologies … Continue reading →

Categories: Coding, Metadata, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Editions, Session Proposals, Session: Talk | Comments Off on All Variously Imperfect: The Problem of Representing Text Digitally