manuscripts – THATCamp Alabama 2013 http://alabama2013.thatcamp.org August 9 & 10, 2013 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:43:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Digital Editions http://alabama2013.thatcamp.org/2013/08/01/digital-editions/ http://alabama2013.thatcamp.org/2013/08/01/digital-editions/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:17:37 +0000 http://alabama2013.thatcamp.org/?p=402 Continue reading ]]>

Why is it important to create digital editions for old manuscripts?  How do you do it?  What is the final product?  How many steps will it take?  What do you need to learn?  HTML?  TEI?  PDFs?  Is support available?

We (Connie Janiga-Perkins and Mary Alexander) would like to share ideas about how to best approach these kinds of projects and discuss the considerations involved.  We are happy to show parts of our project-in-progress, Digital Edition of Jeronima Nava y Saavedra’s Vida (1669-1727), as a jumping-off point (lib.ua.edu/digitalhumanities/jnysvida).  One of our biggest issues has been deciding how much to footnote and how much to “leave” as the author wrote it.

We would love to hear about your digital edition ideas, success, and challenges!

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