A social edition is a form of
textual scholarship
Textual scholarship (or textual studies) is an umbrella term for disciplines that deal with describing, transcribing, editing or annotating text (literary theory), texts and physical documents.
Overview
Textual research is mainly historically orie ...
that utilizes
social media
Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the Content creation, creation, information exchange, sharing and news aggregator, aggregation of Content (media), content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongs ...
like
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is the host of Wikipedia, the eighth most visited website ...
or
blog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...
s to create
annotated editions of texts. Crompton, Arbuckle and
Siemens
Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational technology conglomerate. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe, and holds the positi ...
describe that "Using social media allows us to integrate a new stage into the
editorial
An editorial, or leading article (UK) or leader (UK), is an article or any other written document, often unsigned, written by the senior editorial people or publisher of a newspaper or magazine, that expresses the publication's opinion about ...
process — a stage that fills the gap between an edition’s initial planning stages and its concluding blind
peer review
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (:wiktionary:peer#Etymology 2, peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the ...
, which capitalizes on the engaged knowledge
communities
A community is a Level of analysis, social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place (geography), place, set of Norm (social), norms, culture, religion, values, Convention (norm), customs, or Ide ...
inside and outside the
academy
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...
".
List of social editions
Open participation
Participation is open to registered and unregistered contributors.
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The Annotated ''The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes''
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A Social Edition of the Devonshire MS
Semi-open participation
Participation is allowed through a process of review by the
project
A project is a type of assignment, typically involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a specific objective.
An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of events: a "set of interrelated tasks to be ...
members.
The Iraq Study Group Report
References
Further reading
* Bryant, John, ''The Fluid Text. A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen''. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press 2005 (2002).
* Shillingsburg, Peter L., ''From Gutenberg to Google. Electronic Representations of Literary Texts''. Cambridge University Press 2006.
* Siemens, Ray, et al. "Toward modeling the social edition: An approach to understanding the electronic scholarly edition in the context of new and emerging social media." ''Literary and linguistic computing'' 27.4 (2012): 445–461. http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/pub/2011-SocialEdition.pdf
* Gunter Vasold: Work-in-Progress-Editionen als multidimensionale Wissensräume, in: ''Digital Diplomatics. The Computer as a Tool for the Diplomatist?'' Ed. by Antonella Ambrosio, Sébastien Barret, and Georg Vogeler, Köln et al.: Böhlau, 2014 (AfD Beiheft 14). ()
Slides from the presentation at the Digital Diplomatics 2013, Naples 1st Oct. 2014
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