Driscoll and Pierazzo 2016

“What seems even more compelling, however, is to understand what digital scholarly editing actually is: is it a new discipline or a new methodology? Are we simply putting ‘old wine in new bottles’, or are we we doing something which has never been done — indeed, never been doable — before?” (3)

Revolution in — location primary sources — digital images — transcribed text — crunching the data — automatic collation, stemmatology, and cladistic methods — standards — social editing

Sahle’s contribution is relevant Van Zundert Van Hulle

What is a Scholarly Digital Edition? Patrick Sahle

Need to define Scholarly Digital Edition (SDEs)

“A scholarly edition is the critical representation of historic documents.” (23)