This article reports on the ongoing social edition-building process. Using the social edition of the Devonshire Manuscript as a case study, the authors assess the scholarly potential of editing in public with contributions and feedback from the existing knowledge communities surrounding Wikibooks, Wikipedia, Twitter, and other social media…[Read more]

On January 19th-20th 2016, researchers, students, librarians, and other participants came together for the third annual Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE)-hosted gathering in Whistler, BC, Canada, for “New Knowledge Models: Sustaining Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Production.” Thematically, discussions revolved around the man…[Read more]

On December 8, 2014, researchers, students, librarians, and other participants gathered together in Sydney, Australia at the State Library of New South Wales for the 7th annual Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Birds-of-a-Feather conference, “Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age.” On January 27…[Read more]

A part of the special issue of DHQ on feminisms and digital humanities, this paper takes as its starting place Greg Crane’s exhortation that there is a “need to shift from lone editorials and monumental editions to editors … who coordinate contributions from many sources and oversee living editions.” In response to Crane, the exploration of t…[Read more]

On February 5th-6th 2014 researchers, students, and other participants gathered together in Whistler, BC, Canada to discuss issues relating to scholarly publishing in Canada. The day and a half long meeting, “Building Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Publishing,” welcomed participants representing several Canadian libraries and uni…[Read more]

This article outlines the practices of digital scholarly communication (moving research
production and dissemination online), critical making (producing theoretical insights
by transforming digitized heritage materials), and social knowledge creation
(collaborating in online environments to produce shared knowledge products). In
addition to…[Read more]

What is the best model for public-facing digital literary editions? In 2011, Touch Press released The Waste Land for iPad, an interactive tablet application showcasing T.S. Eliot’s notorious 1922 poem The Waste Land. From an academic editorial standpoint, Touch Press’s edition has some grave issues. From a popular standpoint, The Waste Land for…[Read more]

As humanities scholars increasingly recognize the value of public engagement, and as the proportion of tenure-track faculty positions available continues to decline, many humanities programs are focusing renewed attention on equipping graduate students for careers as scholars both within and beyond academe. To support those efforts, the Scholarly…[Read more]