Introduction by Alice Martin, Rutgers University

In a changing digital landscape, we must consider how our scholarly editing practices need to change–both structurally and theoretically–to adjust to digital composition and circulation, online workflows, digital design concerns, and how to contextualize materials in new media, amongst other concerns. All of this falls into the realm of “digital editing,” a term that encompasses elements of textual editing but goes beyond this static understanding to consider what other considerations, labors, and conceptual questions might fall under the category of “editing.”

As digital scholarly editions–or editions of texts that are edited by scholars but exist within a digital medium in some way–become more prevalent, the questions of what falls under the parameter of “digital editing” and how we responsibly do it become more pressing. This bibliography provides resources for parsing such terms as “scholarly digital edition,” “digital editing,” and “scholarly editing.” It also includes some sources that give a general outline of editorship studies and that flesh out more theoretical concerns related to digital editing. Of particular interest to the Hub’s bibliography on this topic is the intersecting relationships between feminist practice, content, and technical specifications. This bibliography seeks to address the cross-section of these topics by promoting scholarship on digital and scholarly editing that has an awareness of the ways the design and implementation of technology can exclude and objectify people.