Correspondence Editions as Critical Library Pedagogy and Digital Humanities Methodology

Francesca Giannetti
Digital Humanities Librarian

@jo_frankie

24 July 2019

Routes of Innovation in Digital Editing

Models (of texts, documents, and processes)

Subjects (of editions)

The Strengths of Weak Capital (!?)

These small, innovative literary presses, if they weigh very little on the fiction market, provide it nonetheless with its raison d’être, its justification for being, and its spiritual point of honor—and in this way one of its principles of transformation. Poor and powerless, they are in some ways condemned to respect the official norms that everyone professes and proclaims.

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1999. “Une révolution conservatrice dans l’édition.” Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 126 (1): 11.

Still Papers

Peter Still Digital Edition, https://stillpapers.org
Peter Still Digital Edition, https://stillpapers.org

War Service Bureau Records

War Service Bureau, https://rutgersdh.github.io/warservicebureau/
War Service Bureau, https://rutgersdh.github.io/warservicebureau/

Evaluating Authority

An excerpt of a letter showing a tooltip with a student’s editorial annotation
An excerpt of a letter showing a tooltip with a student’s editorial annotation

Information Creation as a Process

Annotation from Fletcher Webster’s letter of introduction (from the Peter Still papers, 1850–1875)
Annotation from Fletcher Webster’s letter of introduction (from the Peter Still papers, 1850–1875)

Fletcher Webster, Note, Boston, January 31, 1853, https://stillpapers.org/items/show/12.

Display Version

Online version of Webster’s letter showing editorial interventions and areas of uncertainty
Online version of Webster’s letter showing editorial interventions and areas of uncertainty

Article

For a longer version of my remarks:


Giannetti, Francesca. 2019. “‘So near While Apart’: Correspondence Editions as Critical Library Pedagogy and Digital Humanities Methodology.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 45 (5): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2019.05.001.

Thank you


Francesca Giannetti
Digital Humanities Librarian
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
fg162@rutgers.edu | @jo_frankie