Prof. Wojciech Kruszewski (KUL Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski - Catholic University of Lublin) Discussant: Paola Italia (University of Bologna – Digital Scholarly Editing Full Professor) Audience: CHeDE PhD Students, Postdoctoral and Young Researchers; Members of PRIN with DH. Language: English
Data: 15 MAGGIO 2024 dalle 15:00 alle 18:00
Luogo: Laboratorio 3, via Zamboni 34
Tipo: Altri eventi
Digital Critical Editions:
New Opportunities or Merely a Change of Medium?
Lithuanian History case study
Summary
The presented projects of critical digital editions demonstrate two distinct approaches to digital text processing: transferring paper editions directly to a digital format and modifying the traditional version to fit the capabilities and specifics of the digital edition. Based on these experiences, we would like to address the following questions:
Lithuanian History: Analog Edition Transferred to Digital Medium.
Lithuanian History is an unfinished work by Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, a key figure in understanding Polish history in the 19th century. The work has a distinctly polemical character and is directed (one of the possible interpretations of this text) against the Russian imperial ideology. This work is incomplete, but the author revisited it several times over many years, attempting to complete the project. Several notebooks with drafts and subsequent revisions of Lithuanian History have survived to our times. One of the more intriguing editorial challenges is that the longest version of the work is actually composed of two different, temporally distant editions of the work, artificially spliced together. The edition proposed by us is the first attempt to publish Lithuanian History. We will present the problems with establishing the text of the work, writing commentary on it, and technical issues (utilization of EVT for the presentation of the edition).