Publishing Editions in the Digital Age
This course covers how the publishing industry has arrived at the current digital workflow for all publications and the effect such digital publication workflows may have on publication methods.
Last updated March 15, 2024
Why Annotate?
Welcome to “Why Annotate?” This course explores the theory, practice, and significance of annotating documents. Annotation is one of the most important aspects of historical and critical editing because it provides a variety of explanatory and contextual tools you can use to help readers understand the texts you plan to publish. In this course, you’ll explore not only different types of annotat…
Last updated March 15, 2024
Analyzing Your Audience
In this course, you’ll begin to analyze your audience. You’ll consider the characteristics of your target audiences and analyze their needs in order to create an interesting and engaging user experience. More specifically, you’ll consider issues of inclusivity, equity, and diversity as you determine how best to use principles of universal design to meet the needs of your audience.
Last updated October 10, 2023
Analyzing Your Documents
In this course, you’ll learn how to analyze and evaluate your documents—a key step in the editorial process, as it can lead to more nuanced editorial methods, a well-thought-out selection policy, and complementary technology solutions. A thorough analysis can also improve your project workflow and increase accessibility to your completed edition.
Last updated March 14, 2024
Why Edit?
This course provides a general framework for exploring the field of editing, such as the reasons why you may choose to edit, the differences between historical editing and critical editing, and some of the activities and considerations involved in preparing an edition.
Last updated March 15, 2024
Quality Control
Welcome to Quality Control (QC). During this course, you’ll learn about quality control standards and procedures for producing an online edition. You’ll explore important quality control practices that should be incorporated into your workflows in order to ensure that your edition is accurate and error-free.
Last updated October 10, 2023
Securing Permissions
Learn how to secure permissions for publishing an image or digitization created by someone else, or for publishing a transcription of intellectual content created by someone else.
Last updated October 10, 2023
Publishing Options
One of the primary goals of every edition is publication. This course surveys the current publishing options available for editorial projects, the economics of print publishing, and the advantages and disadvantages (affordances) of publishing in print versus digital formats.
Last updated October 10, 2023
Annotation in Practice
At the end of this course, you’ll have the tools to develop not only a policy to guide you in determining what you’ll annotate but also a plan for how you’re going to do it.
Last updated October 10, 2023
Transcribing Documents
What do you need to know about transcribing and publishing documents, and what broad transcription guidelines make sense for your documents and your audience? This unit will explore the difference between publishing in print and digital, and the range of interventions that editors make in their texts.
Last updated October 10, 2023
Organizing Your Documents
Keeping track of your physical and digital documents, your work progress, and your publication requires preparation and forethought. In this lesson, you’ll explore various tools and methods for tracking and managing your project.
Last updated October 10, 2023
Selecting Documents
Selection is the process of deciding which documents you’ll publish. It involves refining the process you use to survey documents and deciding how many, and which ones, you intend to publish.
Last updated October 10, 2023
What Will Your Edition Look Like?
Editors publish documents in a variety of formats, ranging from books to websites to datasets. Some editions focus on providing the reader with as close to the experience of using the original document as possible, while others try to create a version of it that is broadly accessible. What kind of edition makes the most sense for your project? In order to choose the best option for your project…
Last updated October 10, 2023
Publishing Images of Documents
Welcome to the course on publishing images of source materials! During this course, you’ll learn about the various aspects of digitizing source materials.
Last updated March 6, 2024