42 Helmut W. Klug / Roman Weinberger (Graz) [Sektion 1b

42 Helmut W. Klug / Roman Weinberger (Graz) [Sektion 1b

Tagung „InterNationalität und InterDisziplinarität der Editionswissenschaft“, Bern 2012 – Sektionsvorträge
Helmut W. Klug / Roman Weinberger (Graz)
[Sektion 1b: Datenbanken und editorische Praxis]
Editionen als
Praxisbericht
fächerübergreifende
Grundlage
für
datenbankbasierte
Forschung:
Ein
[Editions as an interdisciplinary resource for database-driven research: An assessment]
Editors see themselves in a position of grave responsibility when releasing historical source texts for
different fields of research and for a broader public – especially because no additional results-oriented
work would be possible without this groundwork. Today, editing has progressed to a stage where
individual editors and edition projects work with electronic material and equipment end-to-end:
digitized source materials are transliterated via crowd sourcing, XML and especially TEI have become
‘de facto’ standards for electronic editions. Various projects germane to medieval studies build on this
technology, edition projects are initiated with an electronic publication in mind. Today we can assume
that at least editors have access to an electronic version of their editions, but it is the final step –
deciding whether to go with an electronic or a printed final version – that determines the general
accessibility of a new edition: it is the fundamental decision of how an edited text is to be published.
Conventionally this decision was made/ tended to be made in favor of printed editions, of which the
applicability and possibilities of reuse are exceedingly limited, especially when compared to electronic
editions.
Our presentation is an assessment based on our research for the Medieval Plant Survey
(http://mps.uni-graz.at/mps-daten), it will discuss the problems we encountered while electronically
processing editions of recipe collections that were published in printed form between 1844 and 2010.
Based on this experience, we plan to discuss select modern editorial concepts from a praxis-oriented
and methodological point of view. We will place special emphasis on an assessment concerning the
question whether the problems introduced above can be solved by a modern editorial approach, and/
or if these up-to-date concepts generate new problems of their own. The presentation is meant to
make editors aware of the fact that their work does not come to an end with the publication of an
edition but, on the contrary, sets in motion various new lines of research. Therefore it is vital to include
into their fundamental research work forward-looking planning that takes the reality of modern
research conditions into account.
Mag. phil. Helmut Werner Klug
Institut für Anglistik
Heinrichstrasse 36/II
8010 Graz
tel. 0043 650 2031261
E-Mail: herlmut.klug@uni-graz.at
Mag. phil. Roman Weinberger
Oeverseegasse 15/19
8020 Graz
Tel.: 0043 676 973 00 93
E-Mail: rw@roman-weinberger.net
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