Digital Scholarly Editions

Ed. by Nancy Heywood e.a., Boston (MA), Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003. "The Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive presents selections from the most important manuscript collection held by the Massachusetts Historical Society. Digital images of the letters exchanged between John and Abigail Adams, John Adams's diary, and John Adams's autobiography are presented alongside transcriptions." [from resource]

Library of Congress, Washington 2000. Ein digitales Archiv, das sich durch die Abbildung und Transkription, die inhaltliche Erschließung (Themen, Namen etc.), die Bereitstellung von kontextualisierendem Zusatzmaterial, die Schaffung einer allgemeinen Ordnungs- und Zugangsstruktur, zusätzliche Nutzungswege ("Special Presentations") und eine ausgefeilte Suchoberfläche dem Konzept der "Edition annähert".
Sehr ähnlich, aber weniger weit ausgebaut sind auch die Thomas Jefferson Papers, ebenfalls an der Library of Congress.

Verantwortet von Roland Berbig und Jutta Weber, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Berlin, 2007- "Auf dieser Website entsteht die digitale Edition des lexikographischen Nachlasses Franz Brümmer (1836-1923). [...] er war unter anderem Herausgeber eines der wichtigsten Schriftstellerlexika seiner Zeit, des Lexikons der deutschen Dichter und Prosaisten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Für dieses Lexikon ließ sich Brümmer biographische und bibliographische Informationen von und über deutschsprachige Schriftsteller zuschicken. Er trug verschiedene Dokumente über verstorbene, aber gleichermaßen und mit außerordentlicher Gründlichkeit auch über noch lebende Schriftsteller zusammen. Sein umfangreicher Nachlass mit ca. 6000 eigenhändigen Autobiographien von deutschen Schriftstellern aller denkbaren literarischen Richtungen liegt seit 1918 in der Königlichen Bibliothek (der heutigen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz). [...] der Nachlass Franz Brümmers [soll] elektronisch erschlossen und schrittweise ediert werden. Die Ergebnisse der laufenden Arbeit werden hier veröffentlicht. Im Vordergrund stehen die von Brümmer nicht (mehr) für das Lexikon verwendeten Materialien aus seinem Nachlass. [...] inzwischen [sind] sämtliche Materialien aus über 250 Nachlassmappen auf dieser Seite veröffentlicht worden [...]. Seitdem wird die Edition sukzessive fortgeführt und werden Transkriptionen zu den bislang nur als Bild verfügbaren Materialien erstellt." [from resource]
Siehe auch die Beschreibung des Projekts der Digitalen Edition.

Ed. by Edmund Berkeley Jr., Charlottesville (VA), University of Virginia Library 2000-2007. "This site includes transcriptions of the diary, correspondence, and papers of the richest and most important man of his day in Virginia [...]". Transcriptions are presented on two levels: in "original spelling" and "modern spelling". [from resource] The texts are linked to commentaries and registers (persons, places, and things).

Ed. by Andrew Jewell, Lincoln (NE), University of Nebraska 1997-. "The Willa Cather Archive is an ambitious endeavor to create a rich, useful, and widely-accessible site for the study of Willa Cather's life and writings. [...] It now includes, in a fully-searchable format, digital transcriptions of five Cather books (copyright law forbids digitally republishing her post-1922 works), all of her short fiction pre-1912, her interviews, speeches, and public letters, her uncollected nonfiction from the 1910s, the complete run of Cather Studies, the back issues of Teaching Cather, a large gallery of photographs, multiple biographies, announcements and news from the Cather scholarly community, virtual tours of Cather-related locales, and much more." [from resource]

Paul Israel e.a., Newark (NJ), Rutgers University, 2005-. "The Digital Edition presents the documentary resources of the Edison Papers to greater advantage and to a much wider and more diverse audience than the book and microfilm editions. Nearly 180,000 document images are now available in digital format. Currently, the Digitial Edition includes documents scanned from Parts I-III of the Microfilm Edition, along with items from Outside Repositories, including private collections. [...] the Digital Edition provides powerful search capabilities enabling users to search for authors, recipients, and names mentioned in a database of 124,000 document records and 20,300 names. The database also includes documents from Part IV and Part V (in-progress) of the microfilm edition as well as material from the Outside Repositories that have been indexed but not yet digitized. Another feature enables users to search for words and phrases appearing in the approximately 4,000 targets (descriptive introductions) to the folders and volumes. Through the series notes, the edition provides links to targets at the series, subseries, and folder or volume levels. It also provides a list (with linked images) of all records in a particular folder or volume when the associated target is brought to the screen." [from resource]

Ed. by David W. Packard. Los Altos (CA), Packard Humanities Institute, 1988 [CD-ROM-Version] - 2006 [online-version]. "A digital version of the Franklin Papers, created and maintained by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) and previously available to scholars and researchers on a CD-ROM, is now available to the public [...]. This digital edition includes texts of the published papers and unverified, rough transcriptions of the as-yet-unpublished material. The rough transcriptions will be replaced with verified texts as future volumes of the Franklin Papers are published. The texts are fully searchable and they are indexed by volume, name of correspondent, and date. The digital edition does not include [the] editorial headnotes and footnotes [from the printed volumes]. It does, however, contain biographical sketches of all Franklin's correspondents, written exclusively for this database, and it provides translations of some of the French documents." [from resource]

... a complete text and image database of the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c. 1600 - 1662), Judith Crawford e.a., 2nd edition, Sheffield, HRIOnline, 2002, 2 CD-ROMs, ISBN 0954260805. (1st edition, Ann Arbor (MI) 1996, ISBN 0835723682). "The project's objective was to create a complete electronic edition with full-text transcription and facsimile images of all 25,000 seventeenth-century manuscripts. This seven-year project culminated in the publication in 1996 of two CD-ROMs by University Microfilms in Michigan. [...] hriOnline's Hartlib Papers Second Edition includes additional Hartlib-related materials that were transcribed after the first edition had already been published. [A new graphical user interface allows flexible searching of the documents, printing facilities and a unique on-screen comparison of different texts.]" [from resource] Die zweite Ausgabe ist inzwischen nicht mehr lieferbar.

Caroline Szylowicz, Urbana (IL), 1994-2006. Gegenstand sind die Forschungsunterlagen von Philip Kolb, die dieser bei der Forschung zur Korrespondenz Prousts angesammelt hatte. Dazu gehören auch zahlreiche Originalbriefe Prousts. Das Material ist nur über eine Suchmaske zugänglich.

Unter einem Paradigma des "documentary editing" sind insgesamt 12 "Mini-Editions" von hauptsächlich archivischem Material (z.B. Nachlassdokumente) entstanden. Davon bieten neun ausgezeichnete Volltexte, zwei basieren auf digitalen Abbildungen und eine enthält Volltexte und Abbildungen. Die Texte sind in SGML/XML ausgezeichnet, die Darstellung der Editionen greift teilweise auf XML/SGML-Browser (wie z.B. Dynaweb) zurück. Die einzelnen Editionen legen leicht unterschiedliche Schwerpunkte und benutzen teilweise unterschiedliche technische Lösungen. Einige haben in den letzten Jahren Erweiterungen und Relaunches erfahren und sind damit aus den "Mini-Editions" herausgewachsen.

• The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, ed. by Allida M. Black, Washington D.C., 2006-2008. (older version of a sub-project)
• Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, ed. by Charlene Bangs Bickford, Washington D.C., -2009. (older version)
• Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Model Editions Partnership, 1999-2003.
• The Frederick Douglass Papers, directed by John R. McKivigan, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IN), 1999-2003.
• The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, ed. by Daun R. van Ee and Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD) 1999-2003. (The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, complete edition, ed. by Edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. e.a., Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (MD) 2003, (restricted access))
• The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers, ed. by Robert A. Hill, University of California Los Angeles (CA), 1999-2003.
• Papers of General Nathanael Greene, ed. by Dennis M. Conrad, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence (RI), 1999-2003.
• The Papers of Joseph Henry, ed. by Marc Rothenberg, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 2000-2003.
• Papers of Henry Laurens, ed. by David R. Chesnutt and C. James Taylor, University of South Carolina, Columbia (SC), 2000-2003.
• Abraham Lincoln Legal Papers, ed. by Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield (IL), 2000-2003. (ongoing project)
• The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, ed. by Larry I. Bland, George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington (VA), 2000.
• Margaret Sanger Papers, ed. by Esther Katz, New York University (NY), 2000. (ongoing edition)
• Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, ed. by Ann D. Gordon, Rutgers University, Piscataway (NJ), 2000.

[no editors or publishers identified] The Orwell Price. 2008-2012. "Since 9th August 2008, we have been blogging George Orwell’s diaries from 1938 in real time, 70 years to the day since each entry was originally written. The diaries start as Orwell heads to Morocco (with his wife Eileen) to recuperate from injury and illness, and end in 1942 (or 2012) as the Second World War rages.
In addition to the diary entries, there are images and documents complementing the diaries [...], and a Google Map of Orwell’s travels [...]." [from resource]

Ed. by Michael Moosberger e.a., Halifax (NS), 2001-2004. "... an electronic archive that will feature selected significant letters, manuscripts, photographs, stories, and broadcasts by Thomas Raddall ...". [from resource]

Directed by Marilyn Deegan, London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, 2010-. "Schenker Documents Online is a digital edition of three large collections of documents — the voluminous correspondence between Heinrich Schenker and the members of his circle, together with the theorist’s diaries and lessonbooks ; these are supported by additional documents relating to his life, and a set of "profiles" of people, places, and organizations with which he came into contact, the newspapers and journals that he read, and his own works.
SDO does not provide facsimiles; it is thus in no sense a digitization project, nor is it an archive in the strict sense. Rather, it is a scholarly edition, which aims to present near-diplomatic transcriptions of original texts, together with English translations, summaries, supporting commentary, and such interpretation as is necessary to relate these documents to Schenker’s personal development and those of his correspondents.
Because it is digital, it provides direct hyperlinks between documents, facilitating rapid movement from document to document; and it offers the end-user a range of tools with which to search and browse documents, thus facilitating the task of understanding and contextualization." [from resource]

Ed. by Theodore J. Crackel, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville (VA), 2007. "The Papers of George Washington encompasses five separate series and the complete diaries. This digital edition offers the complete Papers to date in one online publication. You may search on full text and by date, author, or recipient across all volumes and series. The exceptional indexing of the individual print volumes is combined here into a single master index, and all internal document cross-references are linked." [from resource]

Inhaltlich verantwortet von Joachim Veit, Detmold, Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Hochschule für Musik Detmold, 2011- "Die WeGA [... hat das] Ziel, bis zum 200. Todestag Webers im Jahr 2026 seine sämtlichen Kompositionen, Briefe, Tagebücher und Schriften in einer wissenschaftlich-kritischen Gesamtausgabe vorzulegen. [...] Alle Textteile (d.h. ausschließlich der Notentexte) werden zunächst [...] als Digitale Edition publiziert."
Diese umfasst seit 2011 ein erstes größeres Textkorpus der Edition der Briefe, Tagebücher, Schriften und Dokumente Webers.

... "Papers Relating to the Church Missionary Society Mission to Wellington Valley, New South Wales 1830 - 42. A Critical Electronic Edition Edited by Hilary M. Carey and David A. Roberts." 2002. Inhaltlich handelt es sich um kommentierte elektronische Volltexte (Transkripte) der erschlossenen Archivalien.

Wittgenstein's Nachlass: the Bergen Electronic edition; The completed edition on CD-ROM, Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-268243-1. "Wittgenstein's Nachlass. The Bergen Electronic Edition (BEE) is a joint publication by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) and Oxford University Press. Publication of the edition, which was initially intended to consist of four separate volumes, begun in April 1998. After publication of Volume 2 it was decided to publish one final, complete title. The complete edition was released in 2000 on 6 CDs (1 CD with edited Nachlass texts and software, and 5 CDs with facsimile files)." [from resource]
Inhaltlich bietet die Ausgabe neben Faksimiles einen tief ausgezeichneten Text, aus dem sowohl eine diplomatische Fassung, als auch eine normalisierte ("reading"-) Version. Diese bietet voreinstellungsgemäß die jeweils letzte Textfassung, es können aber auch frühere Varianten angezeigt werden. Die CD verwendet Folio-Views zur Darstellung der Inhalte und ist immer noch lieferbar.