Digital Scholarly Edition Evaluation / Planning

Assignment

Choose a digital scholarly edition (DSE) below and examine / evaluate it. Jot down answers to the questions below. (Don't worry if you don't get to all of them.) Then, you'll share your edition and thoughts for discussion.
Your goal is get a sense of what others have done and what can be done in a DSE. This will help you decide what to do in your projects while getting a sense of the genre of the DSE.

• What do you like / dislike about the DSE you chose? Why?
• What scholarly apparatus elements would you like to emulate / not emulate in your digital edition?
• Annotations:
• Is the text(s) annotated?
• What is annotated?
• How much info is provided in the annotation?
• How do the annotations clarify the text?
• Are the annotations in note or glossary format?
• etc.
• Context:
• What type of contextual materials are provided?
• Are they included in / alongside the text (links, embedded images, etc.)? Or are they excluded to a separate section?
• Is their relationship to the text explained, or are the contextual materials left to speak for themselves?
• Introduction:
• How is the text introduced? Biographical? Methodological? Interpretive? Something else?
• Interpretation:
• How is the text interpreted?
• Are there any computational text analyses + visualizations? Are they explained?

Digital Scholarly Editions

• Student DSEs:
• Digital Dorian Gray
• The Mill on the Floss: An Anthropocene Edition [Manifold]
• The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
• Professional DSEs:
• Jane Addams Digital Edition
• The John Milton Reading Room
• Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies
• The Pulter Project
• Selections from Petrarch's Canzoniere [Manifold]
• The Walt Whitman Archive
• The Willa Cather Archive
• Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments of History
  (Not a digital edition, but a Manifold book that uses multimedia in ways that may interest.)