digital humanities summer school, faculty of arts ku leuven , 18 september 2013

Editing Medieval Texts

Achievements and Sacrificesin Digital Philology

Franz FischerCologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), U of Cologne

Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE)

Digital Humanities Summer School, Faculty of Arts KU Leuven, 18 September 2013

Lachmann‘s Method

• transcriptio• collatio• stemma codicum• selectio• emendatio

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Karl Lachmann (1793-1851)Classics and German Philology

Observationes criticae (1815);

De choricis systematis tragicorum graecorum (1819);

De mensura tragoediarum (1822);

Über die ursprüngliche Gestalt des Gedichts der Nibelunge Noth (1816);

Über die Leiche der deutschen Dichter des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts (1829);

Über althochdeutsche Betonung und Verskunst (1831);

Über das Hildebrandslied (1833);

Über Singen und Sagen (1833);

Über den Eingang des Parzival (1835);

Betrachtungen über Homers Ilias (1837-1843).

Editing Medieval TextsAchievements and Sacrifices in Digital Philology

Digital Humanities Summer School, Faculty of Arts KU Leuven, 18 September 2013

1. Introduction2. Case studies3. Achievements4. Sacrifices5. Conclusions

Editing Medieval TextsAchievements and Sacrifices in Digital Philology

Digital Humanities Summer School, Faculty of Arts KU Leuven, 18 September 2013

1. Introduction2. Case studies3. Achievements4. Sacrifices5. Conclusions

Achievements

Digital Humanities Summer School, Faculty of Arts KU Leuven, 18 September 2013

• overcoming of boundaries• access & availability• usability• tools• visualisation• transmedialisation

Transmedialisation:Separation of content and form

Representation Presentation

Sacrifices?

Digital Humanities Summer School, Faculty of Arts KU Leuven, 18 September 2013

• Lachmannian paradigm• Editorial model and routines• Curricula• Stability• Reliability• Quality• Publication work flows• Prestige• Libraries

Conclusions?

Digital Humanities Summer School, Faculty of Arts KU Leuven, 18 September 2013

Digital Humanities Summer School, Faculty of Arts KU Leuven, 18 September 2013

Thank you!

franz.fischer@uni-koeln.dehttp://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/

http://www.i-d-e.de/