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Documentation for the public: social editing in the Walt

Whitman Archive

Intermediation(N. Katherine Hayles)

focuses on understanding the interactions among media

privileges multiple causalities over linear causality

describes the interactions between systems of representation (code and language) and modes of representation (analog and digital)

From Hayles’ My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts.

Digital thematic research collections(John Unsworth)

electronic and multimedia in natureextensive but thematically coherentstructured but expandabledesigned to support researchalways authored and usually multi-authoredrepresent collections of digital primary

resources, which are often second-generation digital resources

from Unsworth’s “Thematic Research Collections.” Paper presented at the Modern Language Association’s Annual Conference, December 2000. http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~unsworth/MLA.00/

References and further reading

Clement, Tanya; Wendy Hagenmaier, and Jenny Levine Knies. “Toward a Notion of the Archive of the Future: Impressions of Practice by Librarians, Archivists, and Digital Humanities Scholars.” The Library Quarterly 83.2 (April 2013): 112-130.

Hayles, Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

McGill, Meredith. “Remediating Whitman.” PMLA 122.5 (October 2007): 1588-1592. McKenzie, D.F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. Nowviskie, Bethany. “Interfacing the Edition.”

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/bpn2f/1866/interface.html Price, Kenneth. “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What’s in a

Name?” DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.3 (Summer 2009). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000053/000053.html

---. “Civil War Washington, the Walt Whitman Archive, and Some Present Editorial Challenges and Future Possibilities.” Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come. Connexions. 14 May 2010. http://cnx.org/content/m34306/1.2/

Robinson, Peter. “Editing Without Walls.” Literature Compass 7.2 (2010): 57-61. Theimer, Kate. “Archives in Context and as Context,” Journal of Digital Humanities 1.2 (Spring 2002).

http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-2/archives-in-context-and-as-context-by-kate-theimer/ Warwick, Claire. Response to Question 2, “360° -- Topic: The Walt Whitman Archive.” Archive 1 (Spring

2011). http://www.archivejournal.net/issue/1/three-sixty/the-walt-whitman-archive-warwick-1/ Unsworth, John. “Thematic Research Collections.”

http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~unsworth/MLA.00/

Many thanks!

Dr. Peter Robinson and the SDSE Conference organizers, whose financial support made it possible for me to attend and present

My writing group, who endured an early version of this paper

The Walt Whitman Archive, for making so much of its collection and documentation publicly available

You, for your time and attention