Hi,
I'm currently working on developing a model or concept for a online scholarly collection. I'm particularly interested in hearing from people in the DH community about possible models or best practices in this area. It'll help if I provide a little more context about the project's goals.
The author's 18/19th C. works are fairly varied and consist of texts in multiple editions & languages and draw heavily on natural science & anthropological collections. The overall aim of the digital collection is to offer a foundation for what in German is called "rezeptionsgeschichtliche Forschung" - that is to say, a scholarly edition in the service of tracking its intellectual reception. As such, the (i.e. our) digital collection should serve three goals:
- electronic editions of the author's works
- critical commentary to the electronic editions
- temporal, formal, structural and content based contexts & parallels
Here's a list of existing digital scholarly editions I've looked at so far which have proven to be valuable and interesting as potential models in this respect - some in some aspects, some in others (in no particular order):
The Newton Project (http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/)
Diary of Robert Graves (http://graves.uvic.ca/)
Thomas Gray Archive (http://www.thomasgray.org/)
Hugo von Montfort (http://gams.uni-graz.at/me)
Rossetti Archive (http://www.rossettiarchive.org/)
Walt Whitman Archive (http://www.whitmanarchive.org)
Codex Sinaiticus (http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/)
Van Gogh Letters (http://vangoghletters.org/vg/)
Old Bailey Online (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/)
Darwin Correspondence Project (http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/)
Die Fackel - Austrian Academy Corpus (http://www.aac.ac.at/)
Opera di S. Maria del Fiore (http://www.operaduomo.firenze.it/)
A London Provisioner's Chronicle (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/machyn/)
The Collaborative Rubáiyát (http://scholar.hrc.utexas.edu/rubaiyat/)
Dante’s Commedia (http://www.sd-editions.com/Commedia/index.html)
Are there any other sites you can recommend I look at? At present, we're thinking that the Darwin Correspondence Project and the Van Gogh Letters are probably closest in concept and presentation to what we had in mind. However I'm very interested in additional examples, especially those drawing on natural science and social science collections.
Second, with respect to formal guidelines, best practices and so forth I'm aware of the MLA Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions (http://www.mla.org/resources/documents/rep_scholarly/cse_guidelines). Does anyone know of any other texts of this kind? I'm quite new to this area so it's more than likely I've missed something important I could be looking at as well.
very many thanks in advance,
Arno
ps. I posted this under "Interfaces, Design & Usability" since this seemed closest to my question. Perhaps we should instead start a new DH Answers topic on Digital Editions?
