The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities have published Supporting Digital Scholarly Editions: A Report on the Conference of January 14, 2008, which was written by Ithaka staff.
Here'a an excerpt from the "Introduction":
On January 14, 2008, a group of editors, representatives from university presses, and other stakeholders met to discuss the future of scholarly editions and how they might best be supported in the digital age. . . . .
The objectives of the meeting were:
- To identify services and tools that are critical for supporting digital documentary editions;
- To assess the need for a service provider to facilitate the production of these editions; and
- To articulate the key uncertainties involved in creating such a service provider, so that those can be further investigated.
This report documents the workshop, with the goal of providing a reference not only for participants, but also for others in the community who are concerned with the future of scholarly editions. It is divided into three sections that follow the course of the day itself:
- Developing a vision for the next generation scholarly edition
- How do we get there? Identifying needs and gaps
- Creating a service provider for scholarly editions