Re-Envisioning VersioningA Scholar’s Toolkit

Dr Susan SchreibmanUniversity of Maryland

Digital Philology and Mediaeval TextsArezzo, Italy

19-21 January 2006

<l n="21"> <app> <rdg wit="a1 a2 a3">CURSED</rdg> <rdg wit="a6">CURSING</rdg> <rdg wit="a6"><del>PROPER</del> <add place="superscript">SNARING</add> <add place="infraliniar">SNARE OF AMPLE</add>LIFE'S PURSE</rdg> </app></l>

The VM can be used: as a tool which provokes a re-evaluation of

theories developed to describe editing for print publication;

as a laboratory to work out theories of the text;

as a digital publishing environment to republish critical editions in print.

Text Arc TagClouds

<l n="2"> <app> <rdg wit="a1">Afraid, aware, <del type="hand">little</del> <add rend="hand">blundering</add>, lonely thing:</rdg> <rdg wit="a2 a3 pub">Alone, self-

conscious, frightened, blundering;</rdg> </app> </l>

Approaches to Scholarly EditingG Thomas Tanselle