scholarly editing

This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. 

• A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving discipline 
• Includes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalization 
• Brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities 
• Accessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities
• Surveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understanding the theory, methods, and application of the digital humanities(Source: Publisher's website) 

A report on the issues and challenges, both conceptual and technical, the four-member editorial team (Laura Borràs, Talan Memmott, Rita Rayley, and Brian Kim Stefans) faced when assembling a collection of sixty works of electronic literature that aspired to be representative of a diverse, international field of literary practice.

George Landow discussed the development of The Victorian Web, an online resource hosted by Brown University, for the study of Victorian literature, and its relation to his scholarship on hypertext.

This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. 

• Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. 
• Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. 
• Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving. 
• Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion.(Source: publisher's website) 

Electronic literature produced in programmable media – such as kinetic or randomly recombined and generated texts, interactive narratives, hyperfictions or poems that appear as moving letters – require a reconceptualization of the reading process and the development of new concepts for evaluating works of (electronic) literature. This accomplishment is essential for undertaking preservation and requires sustainable review mechanisms. What follows is not a transcription into electronic media of established work from the print canon; rather, the initiatives under way at the Electronic Literature Organization have to do with born-digital works, and works in many media that may have anticipated the full-blown emergence of a native, „electronic literature“, „net literature“, or „new media writing“ (to name just three designations for the emergent field), whose profile is coming into being even as the works are being created and designated as a part of the literary tradition. With this media-specific task in mind, in 2007 the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) was entrusted by the Library of Congress with archiving 300 URLs in collaboration with the web-based archiving service „Archive-It“.

This paper will first discuss the ELO’s review model in the light of the aesthetically complex composition of literary texts that mix media. It will then consider the complexity of works on a technical level by reporting on difficulties with harvesting electronic literature that have been produced with flash or JavaScript: technical concerns about archiving need to be considered when describing and tagging works. Finally, this paper will provide an example for reviewing, evaluating, and archiving variable media art works like electronic literature.