tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412227443920505627.post8530418679916776135..comments2023-04-17T11:55:41.873+01:00Comments on Early Modern Gillian: Bookshops I have knownGillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01736964617838267475noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412227443920505627.post-41385140712690137892009-02-27T22:48:00.000+00:002009-02-27T22:48:00.000+00:00Very easy to realise, as Wikipedia has the same fa...Very easy to realise, as Wikipedia has the same facilities: you can easily look at previous revisions of articles, and see changes highlighted.<BR/><BR/>Maybe there would be scope for research funding here? Explore the feasibility of using a wiki for tracking/displaying changes in historic manuscripts?Oliver Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15470911924018335990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412227443920505627.post-16961373303903815242009-02-25T22:16:00.000+00:002009-02-25T22:16:00.000+00:00I agree in principle, Bill, but I'm a bit less cle...I agree in principle, Bill, but I'm a bit less clear how this would actually help in practice. It's not going to achieve much if people like me just grumble on the sidelines about Project Gutenberg. And in any case, Project Gutenberg does have many things going for it; I used it myself last weekend when hunting for some Shakespeare text. <BR/><BR/>Electronic editing, of course, offers all sorts of possibilities for textual production and display. One of the texts I've published on is Samuel Daniel's historical epic, The Civil Wars (1595-1609). There are four published versions of The Civil Wars, all different, as well as two extant manuscripts. No traditional hard-copy edition will be able to do full justice to the huge numbers of changes that Daniel introduced from edition to edition; the format just doesn't allow it. But an electronic edition could go a very long way towards allowing readers to see, with a few clicks of the mouse, both the large- and small-scale changes between MS and print, or between 1595 and 1609. For sad textualists like me, this would be very valuable.<BR/><BR/>I would love to see such an edition, but it would take time, money and astonishing amounts of work. I'm not at all convinced that funding bodies would be likely to think Samuel Daniel was worth it. And were an electronic edition of The Civil Wars ever produced, it would almost certainly have to be a chargeable resource. Not very very accessible -- and not very Web 2.0!Gillianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01736964617838267475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3412227443920505627.post-51599107865814660272009-02-25T21:30:00.000+00:002009-02-25T21:30:00.000+00:00I've just realised that your point about quality c...I've just realised that your point about quality control with electronic texts is the perfect argument for increased academic involvement in the blogosphere :-)BiluĊhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15194606495946091033noreply@blogger.com