Newcastle University has a rich tradition of scholarly editing. Researchers currently working of scholarly editions include:

This bibliography is a work in progress. More items will be added during the course of the project. 

Audet, René. ‘Inner Margins of the Literary Digital Text: From Allusion to Rewriting’. Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, Mar. 2015.

Brown, Susan. ‘Tensions and Tenets of Socialized Scholarship’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 2, June 2016, pp. 283–300.

Cummings, James. 'The Text Encoding Initiative and the Study of Literature'. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ed. by Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, pp. 451-476.

Dalbello, Marija. ‘Institutional Shaping of Cultural Memory: Digital Library as Environment for Textual Transmission’. The Library Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 3, July 2004, pp. 265–298.

deTombe, Jon. ‘Chapter 5 Digital Editing as Autopoietic Process’. Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, vol. 6, no. 0, Apr. 2016.

Dillen, Wout, and Vincent Neyt. ‘Digital Scholarly Editing within the Boundaries of Copyright Restrictions’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 785–796.

Driscoll, Matthew James, and Elena Pierazzo. Digital Scholarly Editing Theories and Practices. Open Book Publishers, 2016.

Eggert, Paul. ‘The Reader-Oriented Scholarly Edition’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 797–810.

Estill, Laura. ‘Encoding the Edge: Manuscript Marginalia and the TEI’. Digital Literary Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, May 2016.

Keeline, Tom. ‘The Apparatus Criticus in the Digital Age’. The Classical Journal, vol. 112, no. 3, 2017, pp. 342–363.

McGillivray, Murray. ‘“Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”: The Case for Scholarly Editing as a Public Intellectual Activity’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 811–818.

Meiman, Meg. ‘Documentation for the Public: Social Editing in The Walt Whitman Archive’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 819–828.

Muri, Allison, et al. ‘The Grub Street Project: A Digital Social Edition of London in the Long 18th Century’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 829–849.

Pierazzo, Elena. ‘A Rationale of Digital Documentary Editions’. Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 26, no. 4, Dec. 2011, pp. 463–477.

Portela, Manuel. ‘Multimodal Editing and Archival Performance: A Diagrammatic Essay on Transcoding Experimental Literature’. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 8, no. 1, 2014.

Price, Kenneth M. ‘Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What’s in a Name?’. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 3, no. 3, 2009.

---. ‘The Walt Whitman Archive and the Prospects for Social Editing’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 866–874.

Robinson, Peter. ‘Chapter 7 Social Editions, Social Editing, Social Texts’. Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, vol. 6, no. 0, Apr. 2016.

---. ‘Some Principles for Making Collaborative Scholarly Editions in Digital Form’. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 11, no. 2, 2017.

---. ‘Project-Based Digital Humanities and Social, Digital, and Scholarly Editions’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 875–889.

---. ‘The Ends of Editing’. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 3, no. 3, 2009.

Saklofske, Jon, et al. ‘Gaming the Edition: Modelling Scholarly Editions through Videogame Frameworks’. Digital Literary Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, May 2016.

Salt, Joel, et al. ‘Electronic Scholarly Editing in the University Classroom: An Approach to Project-Based Learning’. Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, vol. 3, no. 1, June 2012.

Sewell, David. ‘It’s For Sale, So It Must Be Finished: Digital Projects in the Scholarly Publishing World’. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 3, no. 2, 2009.

Shep, Sydney. ‘Chapter 2 At the Crossroads: Book History Meets Digital Humanities’. Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, vol. 6, no. 0, Aug. 2016.

Shillingsburg, Peter. ‘How Literary Works Exist: Convenient Scholarly Editions’. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 3, no. 3, 2009.

---. ‘Reliable Social Scholarly Editing’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 890–897.

Siemens, Ray, et al. ‘Toward Modeling the Social Edition: An Approach to Understanding the Electronic Scholarly Edition in the Context of New and Emerging Social Media’. Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 27, no. 4, Dec. 2012, pp. 445–461.

Sondheim, Daniel, et al. ‘Scholarly Editions in Print and on the Screen: A Theoretical Comparison’. Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, vol. 6, no. 0, Sept. 2016.

Trettien, Whitney Anne. ‘A Deep History of Electronic Textuality: The Case of Eng/Ish Reprints Jhon Milton Areopagitica’. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 7, no. 1, 2013.

Winters, Jane. ‘Coda: Web Archives for Humanities Research – Some Reflections’. Web as History. Ed. Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder. UCL Press, 2017, pp. 238–248.

Zöllner-Weber, Amélie. ‘Text Encoding and Ontology—enlarging an Ontology by Semi-Automatic Generated Instances’. Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 26, no. 3, Sept. 2011, pp. 365–370.

Zundert, Joris J. van. ‘The Case of the Bold Button: Social Shaping of Technology and the Digital Scholarly Edition’. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 31, no. 4, Dec. 2016, pp. 898–910.

There are too many published digital editions to list here. For more comprehensive catalogues, see:

Catalogue of Digital Editions. Franzini, G., Andorfer, P., Zaytseva, K.

A Catalogue of Digital Scholarly Editions. Sahle, Patrick.

Below are some of our favourite digital editions. More will be added during the course of the project.

Early Stuart Libels: an edition of poetry from manuscript sources. Ed. Alastair Bellany and Andrew McRae, 2005.

Jonathan Swift Archive. Ed. Paddy Bullard, Daniel Cook, and Adam Rounce, in association with James McLaverty and David Womersley.

The Walt Whitman Archive. Ed. Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price.

The Shelley-Godwin Archive. Ed. Neil Fraistat, Elizabeth Denlinger, and Raffaele Viglianti.

The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online. Ed. Mark Greengrass and David Loades, 2011.

Thomas Gray Archive. Ed. Alexander Huber.

The Diary of William Godwin. Ed. Victoria Myers, David O'Shaughnessy, and Mark Philp, 2010.

La Entretenida. Ed. John O'Neill, 2017.

Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition. Ed. Kathryn Sutherland, 2010.

There are many tools available for work in the Digital Humanities. For a comprehensive list of available tools see

DiRT - Digital Research Tools

TAPoR - Text Analysis Portal for Research

Below are some of our favourite digital editing tools. This list will be updated during the course of the project.

CollateX – Collation Software.

Digital Humanities Questions & Answers – Forum with useful information and tips for Digital Humanities.

eLaborate – Online work environment for text transcription, annotation and editing.

TEI Publisher – Publication toolbox for TEI encoded text.

TextGrid – Virtual Research Environment for textual editing, including a repository for long-term storage.

Textual Communities – Collaborative environment for textual editing and publishing.

Voyant Tools – Web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.

These are the presentations for the ATNU discussion lunches:

ATNU Discussion Lunch January 2018 -- 'What do you expect from a digital edition?' -- James Cummings

ATNU Discussion Lunch February 2018 -- 'Social Editions and Crowdsourcing' -- Tiago Sousa Garcia

ATNU Discussion Lunch May 2018 -- 'Words as maths: How dataviz might contribute to analysis of texts' -- Lauren Ackerman