Editing involves making decisions which are practical on the surface, but have underlying hermene... more Editing involves making decisions which are practical on the surface, but have underlying hermeneutic and theoretical implications (cf. e.g. Machan 1994: 2-5). When the aim is to create digital editions which encode a wide range of manuscript-related phenomena into standardised XML markup, the challenge to editorial principles is significant. The issue is further complicated by the heterogeneous target audience: historians and linguists can have widely differing assumptions about what constitutes data and how it should be presented. Consequently, it is necessary to outline the underlying theoretical orientations of the DECL project, and to place them in the context of theory and bibliographical practice within the field.
Editing involves making decisions which are practical on the surface, but have underlying hermene... more Editing involves making decisions which are practical on the surface, but have underlying hermeneutic and theoretical implications (cf. e.g. Machan 1994: 2-5). When the aim is to create digital editions which encode a wide range of manuscript-related phenomena into standardised XML markup, the challenge to editorial principles is significant. The issue is further complicated by the heterogeneous target audience: historians and linguists can have widely differing assumptions about what constitutes data and how it should be presented. Consequently, it is necessary to outline the underlying theoretical orientations of the DECL project, and to place them in the context of theory and bibliographical practice within the field.
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