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The possibilities digital edition
Kosák, Michal ; Flaišman, Jiří
This article presents an analysis of the particular features of the digital scholarly edition with regard to the possibilities of presentation, the conception of its organization, methodology, and the tools of editorial work. The article therefore first assesses the relationship between the traditional printed scholarly edition and the digital edition. It then presents an analysis of the topic of the digital publication of a text, and charts out the theoretical and the practical approaches to digital editions, particularly more complicatedly conceived ones, such as databases, archives, and scholarly editions. It does so while bearing in mind the possibilities and limitations of digital publishing. Different types of digital editions are then classified from the perspective of the discipline of editing, and basic terms from the discipline are judged, including the concepts of the choice of urtext, the canonical text, the forms of critical apparatus, and commentary. The article then considers the possibilities of digital processing for the needs of special textual analyses. The article is based on actual experience with the planning and preparing of digital editions, for example, the full-text databases of the Česká elektronická knihovna (Czech digital library) and the Kritické hybridní edice (Critical scholarly editions) — namely, the works of František Gellner (2014) and an electronic edition (2015) of Richard Weiner’s Rozcestí (Crossroads, 1918).
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