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

  • Aodhán Kelly (author)
Chapter of: Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century

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TitleSeamless editions
Subtitlea future imaginary of digital editions for learning and public engagement
ContributorAodhán Kelly (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.62637/sup.GHST9020.17
Landing pagehttps://books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/book/sup-9781917341073/chapter/18
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightAodhán Kelly
PublisherScottish Universities Press
Published on2025-04-29
Long abstractThis chapter will propose and examine a way to conceptualise the creation of future digital editions for broader audiences, particularly for purposes of learning and public engagement, namely the idea of ‘seamless editions’. This idea builds upon a conceptual framework developed by the author for the dissemination of digital editions. It will combine this framework with ideas drawn from a growing field within the educational sciences, that of ‘seamless learning’. Digital editions come in many shapes and sizes, and as a scholarly output there is no clear-cut consensus on where its definitional boundaries lie, but they are rather something experimental that may continue to remain in a state of development and redefinition. The continuing definitional ambiguity of digital editions could in some ways be viewed as a sort of identity crisis, but this lack of clear boundaries can also be treated as a freedom and an opportunity to experiment and diversify. The potential of editions to reach a broader audience in the digital medium is a long running ambition of many in the field. This chapter seeks to help intensify that discussion in the scholarly editing community and add impetus to reaching that potential by focusing on a conceptual approach to the design of digital editions for learning and outreach purposes.
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Aodhán Kelly

(author)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Aodhán Kelly is a lecturer and researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Maastricht University. He was an early career researcher with DiXiT (2014–7), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Initial Contributor biographies xxiii Training Network focused on digital scholarly editions. He conducted his PhD (2017) under Prof. Dirk Van Hulle at the University of Antwerp, defending a thesis on ‘Disseminating digital scholarly editions of textual cultural heritage’. Aodhan’s postdoctoral work has been situated broadly in the social sciences and focuses on digital transformations in higher education and society. He previously represented Open Universiteit on Dutch national initiatives ‘Digital Society’ and the Acceleration Plan for ICT in Education. Currently he is active in teaching at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Maastricht University in media studies and digital society. He is a co-founder and research co-ordinator for the Plant at Maastricht (Playground and Laboratory for New Technologies). His latest research focuses on digital humanities approaches to enabling polyvocal representations of contested colonial heritage in archives.