![]() ![]() I am not sure if Patrick Sahle makes use of the term “critical” as it is traditionally used in the universe of scholarly editing namely, in the sense of “text-critical,” or if he uses it in the true sense of the word. Thinking about the essential characteristic of a scholarly edition I decided to replace “critical” with “scholarly enriched,” which makes the definition look like this:Ī scholarly edition is an information resource which offers a scholarly enriched representation of primarily historical documents or texts. Comments, suggestions and critiques are very welcome!Īs I am not yet ready to share my still a bit unordered thoughts on the definition of scholarly editions with the rest of the world, I will start this section not immediately with a completely new definition of scholarly editions, but rather comment on an excerpt from Patrick Sahle’s definition, which states:Ī scholarly edition is an information resource which offers a critical representation of (normally) historical documents or texts. ![]() I hope that we can start an open and fruitful discussion where everyone can publish her|his thoughts on scholarly editing. ![]() Within „Defining Scholarly Editions“, I want to open a new section in our blog which offers the opportunity to discuss the theoretical definition and the different understanding of scholarly editions and related questions such as “the role of the editor”, “the tasks of a commentary,” and many more. ![]()
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