Micro-Editions: Handmade Digital Editions

Dates: June 9th to June 13th 2025

Part of IDARE Summer University 2025: “Handmade Digital”
IDARE: INTERACTIVE DIGITAL ARTS, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

Micro-Editions: Handmade Digital Editions

Please note: in-person or virtual attendance is possible for this workshop.

Instructor: Jason Boyd

Online publishing makes feasible the publication of texts of varying lengths, from the very long to the very brief. While many digital editing projects have very broad scopes (i.e., the complete works of a single author), it is also possible to produce an edition of a single short document — one publication venue for such tiny editions is the journal, Scholarly Editing. This course introduces students to the creation of micro-editions using the XML-based markup specification developed by the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. Students will develop a micro-edition of a short text of their choosing: this could be a letter, a poem, a short story, or another short document Students should send a description of the text they wish to edit to the instructor in advance of the workshop.

Jason Boyd is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at TMU, and the Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities. He was the TEI Editor for the Fortune Theatre Prototype Digital Edition, and has been exploring how TEI can be used to facilitate exegetical analysis of biographical texts through the Texting Wilde Project. He has also explored social editing through the Wikisource edition of Canadian Singers and Their Songs (1919), and has recently published “The Ludic Edition: Playful Futures for Digital Scholarly Editing” in Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century.