New technology and new roles: the need for “corpus editors”

Authors:
Gregory Crane;Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox
Affiliations:
The Perseus Project, Tufts University, Medford, MA;The Perseus Project, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Venue:
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Year:
2000

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Abstract

Digital libraries challenge humanists and other academics to rethink the relationship between technology and their work. At the Perseus Project, we have seen the rise of a new combination of skills. The “Corpus Editor” manages a collection of materials that are thematically coherent and focused but are too large to be managed soley with the labor-intensive techniques of traditional editing. The corpus editor must possess a degree of domain specific knowledge and technical expertise that virtually no established graduate training provides. This new position poses a challenge to humanists as they train and support members of the field pursuing new, but necessary tasks.