Beyond the Author Principle

Session Details

Monday, 28 December

338. Beyond the Author Principle

7:15–8:30 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions

Presiding: Bruce R. Smith, Univ. of Southern California

1. “English Broadside Ballad Archive: A Digital Home for the Homeless Broadside Ballad,” Patricia Fumerton, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Carl Stahmer, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

2. “The Total (Digital) Archive: Collecting Knowledge in Online Environments,” Katherine D. Harris, San José State Univ.

Speaker's Annotation:

Through a study of online, digital archive projects, including my own Forget Me Not Hypertextual Archive, I examine the creation and re-creation of traditional definitions of the “archive.”
The Poetess Archive: http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess/
The Forget Me Not Archive: http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/

3. “Displacing ‘Shakespeare’ in the World Shakespeare Encyclopedia,” Katherine A. Rowe, Bryn Mawr Coll.

Speaker's Annotation:

I'll be sketching my experiences with two challenges to the author function raised by the design of an online encyclopedia. First, the difficulty of defining terms for inclusion and exclusion when space is no longer a limiting factor on what counts as "SHakespearean". Second, the challenges and opportunities of user-contributions, when a single editor, team (or contributor) is not the guarantor of meaning.

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