Digitale Editionsformen. Zum Umgang mit der Überlieferung unter den Bedingungen des Medienwandels

摘要

At the outset of his new three-volume monograph on scholarly digital editing, Patrick Sahle starts off by declaring what Digitale Editionsformen is not. The work is not an in-depth analysis of scholarly editing: it is not exhaustive. It does not offer a clear-cut solution as to how sources should be processed and edited: it asks more questions than it can answer. The work is not perfectly balanced: by focussing mainly on the traditional subjects of scholarly editions, it largely ignores some of its more recent developments such as the edition of audio-materials, of musical scores, and of non-textual objects. The work is also burdened by its inter-disciplinarity: although it deals with literary texts, it is strictly speaking not a philological work; and although it deals with the editing of historical documents, it does not really belong to the field of History either.