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RIDE A Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources

Issue 7: Scholarly Editions

Edited by Philipp Steinkrüger. 2017-12. DOI: 10.18716/ride.a.7.

5 reviews in this issue.

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: An Online Critical Edition

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: An Online Critical Edition http://msr-archives.rutgers.edu/CBF/ (Last Accessed: 2017-06-24). Reviewed by Mellissa Hinton (Long Island University/Post Campus).

Jesse Merandy’s legacy project,Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: An Online Critical Edition (2008-09), presents new avenues for reading and studying American poet Walt Whitman’s iconic work. Aimed at an audience of students and scholars, the site includes the text of Whitman’s acclaimed poem as it evolved through five editions of Leaves of Grass published during the…

Hesperia

Hesperia http://hesperia.ucm.es/ (Last Accessed: 2017-11-08). Reviewed by Paula Loreto Granados García (The Open University).

The Hesperia project makes available worldwide a corpus of Paleohispanic inscriptions coming from the Iberian Peninsula that were never accessible to this extent in an online format before. As a collaborative effort of several Spanish universities, the resource constitutes a useful tool for Classic linguistic researchers, also suitable for archaeologists…

The ‘Beta Dilemma’ – A Review of the Faust Edition

The 'Beta Dilemma' – A Review of the Faust Edition http://beta.faustedition.net/ (Last Accessed: 2017-09-18). Reviewed by Tessa Gengnagel (Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) / a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne).

The Faust Edition is a historical-critical edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (1808/1832). Considered to be one of the most important works of German literature, it took until 2009 before a DFG-funded project started to produce a modern scholarly edition with the purpose of tracing the genesis of the two-part play. The edition is supported by the…

The Casebooks Project

The Casebooks Project http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/ (Last Accessed: 2017-03-26). Reviewed by Joshua Kruchten (New York University).

This essay reviews The Casebooks Project, an ambitious attempt to digitize 80,000 astrological medical records from early modern England. The Casebooks Project exemplifies the possibilities of using digital technologies to understand early modern cultural and intellectual history, and offers us insight into the process of creating such a project. However…

The William Blake Archive (Upgrade)

The William Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org (Last Accessed: 2017-09-23). Reviewed by Kendal Crawford (Simon Fraser University) and Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University).

This review addresses the redesign of the William Blake Archive (WBA), which launched 12 December 2016, updating our previous review of the Archive, published in early 2017. Through this update, described as ‘a complete and transformative redesign,’ all of the content of the previous site has been retained, with improvements to the overall aesthetic appeal…

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