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Seminar with Raymond G. Siemens - February 8th, 2008 |
Date: Friday, February 08, 2008
Time: 2:00:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM |
Paper Title: "The Devil is in the Details: An Electronic Edition of the Devonshire MS (BL Add MS 17,492), its Encoding and Prototyping."
Please join us for a seminar on electronic editing and early modern texts with Raymond G. Siemens (English, University of Victoria). The event will feature a brief presentation on a pre-circulated paper by Raymond Siemens, followed by an open forum for discussion of the issues the paper and presentation have raised. Copies of the paper will be available in the Early Modern Center closer to the event. |
| When someone mentions the idea of an electronic scholarly edition today, the type of thing that will come most readily to mind is something that includes a core, base text (in encoded format), plus standard textual and critical apparatus, and some sort of reference system suggesting pertinent external textual and graphical resources, critical materials, and so forth -- a final product that may well resemble the best of the tradition of the scholarly edition. What comes less readily to mind is the processes involved in creating such an edition, and the wide variety of issues that underlie such an edition’s production. In this discussion, I hope to address a number of these issues, as they have been encountered in the course of work involved in envisioning and preparing an electronic edition of a document best known, perhaps, in relation to the work of poet Thomas Wyatt, his Devonshire MS -- a document which, beyond housing the work of Wyatt, reflects a dynamic group of men and women operating in and around Queen Anne Boleyn’s court in the mid-1530s.
Ray Siemens is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing at the University of Victoria. He is President (English) of the Society for Digital Humanities Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, and Visiting Research Professor Sheffield Hallam University. Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, he is also author of works chiefly focusing on areas where literary studies and computational methods intersect, is editor of several Renaissance texts, is series co-editor of Topics in the Digital Humanities (U Illinois P) and is co-editor of several book collections on humanities computing topics, among them the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities (2004) and Mind Technologies (U Calgary P, 2006). |
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