In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies.
Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and purposeful change. In this volume, Peter …

It is now a standard topic (even, a meme) in the discourse of textual scholarship to speak of
the revolution in our profession occasioned by digital methods. The technology that brought …

For some time, scholars have been using computer-assisted methods to produce graphic
representations of the relationships between witnesses within a textual tradition. The use of …

Recent attempts to computer-model the scholarly edition so as to permit the crowd-sourcing
of its production have misunderstood its nature. Scholarly editions are, in their methodology …

Although textual scholars agree that collation is a crucial component of the editing process, it
often goes undefined and only briefly explained. This article defines the term, explains …

The prospect of breaking free from the confines of the printed page drives much of the
interest in digital critical editions; yet the format of traditional editions in print remains an …

This essay challenges the patriarchal and Eurocentric biases of the digital humanities (DH)
by critically placing the field in a genealogy of postcolonial studies. I do so to counter the …

The article describes research into the automatic comparison of texts with revisions. The
authors argue that in-text variation can best be modelled as nonlinear text, and that a …

These proceedings contain the full papers and short papers selected for presentation at the
28th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2024) 1 …

English The study of the biblical text is undergoing a profound revolution that is changing the
paradigm of textual criticism and the very understanding of the text. As this paradigm shift …