In recent years, program staff have focused on faculty-led projects in a small number of selected fields: classics, Near Eastern studies, medieval studies, musicology, archaeology, art and architectural history, and visual studies. These projects have typically developed online collections of primary sources, often reproduced from libraries and archives, and have involved collaboration with information and technology specialists. In the coming years, staff expect to respond to modest requests to add content to these online resources. However, given the depth and coherence of most of these collections, funding priority in the Scholarly Communications program will shift from building the resources to activities that demonstrate and enhance their scholarly value and that foster aggregation of collections and the development of shared technology platforms in order to enhance sustainability.
\nThe scholarly value of these resources is partly methodological in that they demonstrate new and improved ways of organizing and producing scholarly editions, which are reliable, authoritative presentations of primary source evidence. (Note 24) Through use of windows, searching, hyperlinks and other affordances, digital technology allows clear and elegant presentation of: variorum editions, which are relatively cumbersome to represent in print; multimedia editions of audio and visual as well as textual evidence; “editions as archives,” which include facsimiles of original materials along with edited versions; and “editions of editions,” which aggregate previously published editions of primary source materials to produce new and unique views of the evidence. (Note 25) Moreover, as program staff have learned by supporting examples of each of these edition types, the best and most sophisticated online editing projects also provide value by generating materials that scholars can use as the basis of further analytical and interpretive research. In addition, with detailed textual commentary in the apparatus and interpretive accompanying material, these editions also constitute significant research products in their own right.
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First is the need for tools and facilities to streamline the editionmaking process. (Note 26) Perhaps most important is the continued development of collaborative editing software for representing, transcribing, marking up, and annotating source materials. (Note 27) Of growing importance are ways to integrate usefully various kinds of digital reference works, such as dictionaries, thesauri, gazetteers (for place names), and prosopographies (for personal names). (Note 28)
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