What is Meant by Editing in the Phrase Social

Editing?Barbara Bordalejo

@bordalejo @TextualScholar

University of Saskatchewan

Our goal, through community engagement via Wikibooks, Twitter, blogs, and Drupal-based social media space, is to use existing social media tools to change the role of the scholarly editor from the sole authority on the text to a facilitator who brings traditional and citizen scholars into collaboration through ongoing editorial conversation. (Siemens et al., The Devonshire Manuscript Social Edition)

Our goal, through community engagement via Wikibooks, Twitter, blogs, and Drupal-based social media space, is to use existing social media tools to change the role of the scholarly editor from the sole authority on the text to a facilitator who brings traditional and citizen scholars into collaboration through ongoing editorial conversation. (Siemens et al., The Devonshire Manuscript Social Edition)

Our goal, through community engagement via Wikibooks, Twitter, blogs, and Drupal-based social media space, is to use existing social media tools to change the role of the scholarly editor from the sole authority on the text to a facilitator who brings traditional and citizen scholars into collaboration through ongoing editorial conversation. (Siemens et al., The Devonshire Manuscript Social Edition)

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What to transcribe?Graphetic? Graphemic? Graphic? Normalized?Original or normalized spacing?

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o minim minim tail oun

londoun

Alisoun

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The transcription for this present edition is based on examination of both a microfilm of the Devonshire Manuscript and the original document. Microfilm of the Devonshire Manuscript was provided by the British Library, from which two paper copies were prepared. These paper copies were each transcribed in a blind process. Collation of these two transcriptions proved unfeasible by electronic means, so they were collated manually. This resultant rough transcription was resolved as far as possible using expanded paper prints and enlarged images. Remaining areas of uncertainty were resolved with manual reference to the original document itself, housed at the British Library. This final, collated transcription forms the basis for this current edition. (Siemens et al., The Devonshire Manuscript Social Edition)

…the integration of social tools into the electronic scholarly edition pushes the boundaries of authority further, shifting power from a single editor, who shapes the reading of any given text, to a group of readers comprising a community whose interpretations themselves form a new method of making meaning out of the material. (Siemens et al., The Electronic Edition and Emerging Social Media.)

What is Meant by Editing in the Phrase Social

Editing?Barbara Bordalejo

@bordalejo @TextualScholar

University of Saskatchewan