I must apologize. I wrote my last contribution in a state of low cafeine...
The second paragraph should be as follows:
May I put forward a trait that is usually not central in such definitions?
I would claim that what makes an edition critical is the possibility to
understand the reason for certain (all?) decisions made in that edition.
In other words: critical transparency. I would further claim that the
digital medium gives us to possibilty to formalize (by encoding it, for
example) such transparency. Any comments?
Juan
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Dr Juan Garcés
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
Kay House, 7 Arundel Street
London WC2R 3DX
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Subject: Re: Electronic critical editions?
Coming back to a crucial question Willard McCarthy raised: the one of genre.
What do we understand by a 'critical' edition? What makes an edition
'critical'? How, if at all, is that affected by the digital medium? Is there
a set of essential characteristics a critical edition _has_ to have?
May I put forward of trait that is usually not central of such definitions?
I would claim that what makes an edition critical is the possibility to
understand the reason for certain (all?) decisions made for that decision.
In other words: critical transparency. I would further claim that the
digital medium gives to possibilty to for formalizing (by encoding it, for
example) such transparency. Any comments?
Best
Juan
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Dr Juan Garcés
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
Kay House, 7 Arundel Street
London WC2R 3DX
T: +44 (0)20 7848 1393
F: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
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