Meg Meiman's slides for the 2013 Social, Digital Scholarly Editing Conference at the University of Saskatchewan.

1. M E G M E I M A N
U N I V E R S I T Y O F D E L A W A R E
S O C I A L , D I G I T A L , S C H O L A R L Y E D I T I N G
C O N F E R E N C E
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Documentation for the public:
social editing in the Walt Whitman
Archive

2. Intermediation
(N. Katherine Hayles)
 focuses on understanding the interactions
among media
 privileges multiple causalities over linear
causality
 describes the interactions between systems
of representation (code and language) and
modes of representation (analog and digital)
From Hayles’ My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.

3. Digital thematic research collections
(John Unsworth)
 electronic and multimedia in nature
 extensive but thematically coherent
 structured but expandable
 designed to support research
 always authored and usually multi-authored
 represent collections of digital primary
resources, which are often second-generation
digital resources
from Unsworth’s “Thematic Research Collections.” Paper presented at the Modern Language
Association’s Annual Conference, December 2000.
http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~unsworth/MLA.00/

11. References and further reading
 Clement, Tanya; Wendy Hagenmaier, and Jenny Levine Knies. “Toward a Notion of the Archive of the
Future: Impressions of Practice by Librarians, Archivists, and Digital Humanities Scholars.” The
Library Quarterly 83.2 (April 2013): 112-130.
 Hayles, Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2005.
 McGill, Meredith. “Remediating Whitman.” PMLA 122.5 (October 2007): 1588-1592.
 McKenzie, D.F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
 Nowviskie, Bethany. “Interfacing the Edition.”
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/bpn2f/1866/interface.html
 Price, Kenneth. “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What’s in a
Name?” DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.3 (Summer 2009).
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000053/000053.html
 ---. “Civil War Washington, the Walt Whitman Archive, and Some Present Editorial Challenges and
Future Possibilities.” Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come. Connexions. 14
May 2010. http://cnx.org/content/m34306/1.2/
 Robinson, Peter. “Editing Without Walls.” Literature Compass 7.2 (2010): 57-61.
 Theimer, Kate. “Archives in Context and as Context,” Journal of Digital Humanities 1.2 (Spring
2002). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-2/archives-in-context-and-as-context-by-kate-
theimer/
 Warwick, Claire. Response to Question 2, “360° -- Topic: The Walt Whitman Archive.” Archive 1
(Spring 2011). http://www.archivejournal.net/issue/1/three-sixty/the-walt-whitman-archive-
warwick-1/
 Unsworth, John. “Thematic Research Collections.”
http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~unsworth/MLA.00/

12. Many thanks!
 Dr. Peter Robinson and the SDSE Conference organizers,
whose financial support made it possible for me to attend
and present
 My writing group, who endured an early version of this
paper
 The Walt Whitman Archive, for making so much of its
collection and documentation publicly available
 You, for your time and attention