Jessica DeSpain, Director of the Recovery Hub and Sydney Lines, Project Manager of the Winnifred Eaton Archive are leading a two-session closed workshop at SSAWW on the basics of digital editing.
Digital scholarly editing can be daunting! There are any number of questions about a project’s scholarly aims and underpinnings not to mention technical considerations. Perhaps you would like to recover a handful of poems or edit a collection of short stories. Projects like these do not require mastering a content management system or learning a complex encoding language to be useful to an audience or to be sustainable for the long term. In this closed, two-session workshop, participants will learn how to edit and display a micro edition.
During back-to-back sessions on Thursday November 6 from 10:00-11:15 and 11:30-12:45, workshop leaders Jessica DeSpain from the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers and Sydney Lines from the Winnifred Eaton Archive will lead participants in a discussion of key scholarly and technical questions to consider in relationship to the research design of specific proposals. DeSpain and Lines will teach the group how to use Markdown and TEI to edit their sample transcription. Each member of the workshop will leave the conference with their sample transcription displayed using the Recovery Hub’s editorial framework. All attendees will need to sign up for a GitHub account prior to participation; once you register, we will send more information on how to get set up! We also ask that you bring a transcription with you so you will have material to work with during the workshop.