James O’Sullivan lectures in the Department of Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where he is Director of Research for the School of English & Digital Humanities, as well as a member of the Research & Innovation Committee for the College Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. He is a member of the board of the Future Humanities Institute, for which he leads the Digital Cultures, New Media, & Cultural Analytics research cluster. He is the author of Towards a Digital Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan 2019). James has edited several collections of scholarly essays, including The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (Bloomsbury 2023) and Technology in Irish Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press 2023). He is the Principal Investigator (Ireland) on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age, funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities. See jamesosullivan.org for more on his work.

Michael Pidd is Director of the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield. He has nearly 30 years of experience in developing, managing and delivering large collaborative research projects and technology R&D in the humanities and heritage subject domains. During that time the DHI has been the technical partner in over 120 national and international projects with over 100 clients. He is the Principal Investigator (UK) on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age, funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities. Michael was Principal Investigator on the following projects: Connecting Shakespeare (HEIF), Dewdrop (Jisc), Reinventing Local Public Libraries (HEIF), and Manuscripts Online (Jisc); as well as Co-Investigator on Intoxicants and Early Modernity (ESRC/AHRC), Linguistic DNA (AHRC), Beyond the Multiplex (AHRC) and Ways of Being in the Digital Age (ESRC). He has been the technical lead on a wide number of projects, such as Digital Panopticon (AHRC).

Bridgette Wessels is Professor of Sociology and Social Inequalities at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on the devel­opment and use of digital technology and services in social and cultural life. This includes digital services and communication in the public sphere, everyday life and civic life, social and digital inequal­ities, as well as specific areas such as telehealth, mobile communication and privacy in digital communication. She is co-lead of the ESRC’s Productivity Institute’s Scottish Forum, as well as a founding member of the Digital Technology and Social Change hub of the European University Alliance CIVIS network. She has a strong track record of research funding from UKRI and the EU, as well as other research foundations. Bridgette is a Co-Investigator on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age, funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.

Órla Murphy is Head of the School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork. Her EU international leadership as service roles include National Co-ordinator of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, National Representative and vice chair on the Scientific Committee of CoST-EU, Cooperation in Science and Technology and National Representative on the Social Science and Humanities Strategy Working Group of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. Nationally, she is a board member of the Digital Repository of Ireland and co-chair of The Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository. Órla is a Co-Investigator on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age, funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.

Michael Kurzmeier is Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age project. His work revolves around the intersections of technology and society. His IRC-funded PhD thesis, Political Expression in Web Defacements, investigated political expression through hacking and introduces novel methods for retrieval and analysis of this special kind of archived web material. Michael is a chair of the research methods work group at the Aarhus-led Web ARChive studies network, researching web domains and events (WARCnet), as well as one of the founders of the Engaging with Web Archives (EWA) conference, Ireland’s first dedicated web archiving conference.

Sophie Whittle is a Research Associate on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age project, responsible for developing a prototype online teaching edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale using machine assisted methods. Sophie has taught on modules in the history of English, historical pragmatics, research methods and syntax. She has co-ordinated interdisciplinary workshops on centring anti-racist research in the linguistics curric­ulum, inviting speakers from across the globe to present their research on the pragmatics of postcolonial communities, language and culture sharing and human rights, and has since become a member of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain’s racial justice subcommittee. She is also an organiser at the Sheffield Feminist Archive, and has recently contributed to the creation of a digital archive named Women in Lockdown, a project that houses women’s stories and experiences of the pandemic via oral history, testimony, diary entries and artwork submissions.

Introduction: Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century

James O’Sullivan

Section I. Contexts

1. ‘The past went that-a-way’: editing in the rearview mirror?

Andrew Prescott

2. Who are we editing for? How digital publication changes the role of the scholarly edition

Cathy Moran Hajo

3. Digital scholarly editing and the crisis of knowledge technology

Helen Abbott, Michelle Doran, Jennifer Edmond, Rebecca Mitchell and Aengus Ward

4. Against infrastructure: global approaches to digital scholarly editing

Raffaele Viglianti and Gimena del Rio Riande

Section II. Platforms and pragmatics

5. Building accessibility: platforms and methods for the development of digital editions and projects

Erica F. Cavanaugh and Jennifer E. Stertzer

6. Browse, search and serendipity: building approachable digital editions

Alison Chapman, Martin Holmes, Kaitlyn Fralick, Kailey Fukushima, Narges Montakhabi and Sonja Pinto

7. Predicting the future of digital scholarly editions in the context of FAIR data principles

Bartłomiej Szleszyński, Agnieszka Szulińska and Marta Błaszczyńska

8. Re-using data from editions

Elena Spadini and José Luis Losada Palenzuela

9. Making digital scholarly editions based on Domain Specific Languages

Simone Zenzaro, Federico Boschetti and Angelo Mario Del Grosso

10. Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century as a cooperative for small-scale editions

Juniper Johnson, Serenity Sutherland, Neal Millikan and Ondine Le Blanc

Section III. Automation and analytics

11. The scholarly data edition: publishing big data in the twenty-first century

Gábor Mihály Tóth

12. Close and distant reading in explorative editions: distributed cognition and interactive visualisations

Peter Boot

13. Conviviality and standards: open access publishing after AI

Will Luers

Section IV. Possibilities

14. Beyond representation: some thoughts on creative-critical digital editing

Christopher Ohge

15. Re-encoding dominance: queer approaches to TEI markup

Filipa Calado

16. The ludic edition: playful futures for digital scholarly editing

Jason Boyd

17. Seamless editions: a future imaginary of digital editions for learning and public engagement

Aodhán Kelly

Section V. Projects

18. Digital scholarly editing in the early modern curriculum

Lindsay Ann Reid and Justin Tonra

19. Mediating and connecting: versatile digital publishing in the Edison Papers

Caterina Agostini and Paul Israel

20. ‘The present therefore seems improbable, the future most uncertain’: transcending academia through Charlotte Lennox’s Lady’s Museum (1760–1)

Kelly J. Plante and Karenza Sutton-Bennett

Conclusion: The future of digital editing and publishing

James O’Sullivan and Sophie Whittle