| Title | Re-using data from editions |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Elena Spadini(author) |
| José Luis Losada Palenzuela(author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.62637/sup.GHST9020.8 |
| Landing page | https://books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/book/sup-9781917341073/chapter/9 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Elena Spadini and José Luis Losada Palenzuela |
| Publisher | Scottish Universities Press |
| Published on | 2025-04-29 |
| Long abstract | The centrality of data is one of the key features of digital editions and digital scholarly resources in general. Data-driven philology involves practices that are new to textual criticism and can overcome the print paradigm, including data visualisation, data processing, and data reuse. In this paper we focus on the latter: data reuse. We provide a panorama of use cases for editions, highlighting the potential and current limitations of data reuse. Examples include the reuse of edition data in dictionaries and gazetteers, and reuse in the context of distant reading studies, particularly for intertextuality detection. The role of authority records in reusing data is also analysed. In the conclusions, we emphasise that data reuse is fundamental to strengthening the central position of scholarly editions at the crossroads of many research fields. |
| Language | English (Original) |
Elena Spadini is an associated researcher at the University of Bern and a research navigator at the University of Basel, where she supports digital humanities and in particular scholarly editing projects. Her background is in romance philology and her research interests span from medieval manuscripts to born-digital literary sources. She is currently in charge of the digital component of the project «Gustave Roud. OEuvres complètes», and is editor of the RIDE issues on software reviews. She has published on various aspects of digital philology, such as automatic collation, semantic web and data modelling.
José Luis Losada Palenzuela is Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocław and Research Data Specialist at the University of Basel. He earned his PhD with a study of Schopenhauer’s translation of works by Baltasar Gracián, a Baroque moralist and writer. Recently, his research has centred on Spanish 17th-century Literature, Comparative Literature and Digital Methods. His scholarly contributions include a monograph, several research articles and a digital edition on Schopenhauer’s marginalia.