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

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 of 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 www.jamesosullivan.org for more on his work.