The document discusses the goal of using social media tools like Wikibooks, Twitter, and blogs to change the role of the scholarly editor from sole authority on a text to a facilitator who brings traditional and citizen scholars into collaboration through ongoing editorial conversation on a text. It aims to shift power from a single editor shaping interpretation to a community of readers whose interpretations form new meanings from the material.

1. What is Meant by
Editing in the Phrase
Social Editing?
Barbara Bordalejo
@bordalejo
@TextualScholar
University of Saskatchewan

3. Our goal, through community engagement via
Wikibooks, Twitter, blogs, and Drupal-based social
media space, is to use existing social media tools to
change the role of the scholarly editor from the
sole authority on the text to a facilitator who brings
traditional and citizen scholars into collaboration
through ongoing editorial conversation. (Siemens
et al., The Devonshire Manuscript Social Edition)

4. Our goal, through community engagement via
Wikibooks, Twitter, blogs, and Drupal-based social
media space, is to use existing social media tools to
change the role of the scholarly editor from the
sole authority on the text to a facilitator who brings
traditional and citizen scholars into collaboration
through ongoing editorial conversation. (Siemens
et al., The Devonshire Manuscript Social Edition)

5. Our goal, through community engagement via
Wikibooks, Twitter, blogs, and Drupal-based social
media space, is to use existing social media tools to
change the role of the scholarly editor from the
sole authority on the text to a facilitator who brings
traditional and citizen scholars into collaboration
through ongoing editorial conversation. (Siemens
et al., The Devonshire Manuscript Social Edition)

6. Transcription
How to transcribe?
What to transcribe?
Graphetic? Graphemic? Graphic? Normalized?
Original or normalized spacing?
Punctuation
Word-division
How to treat hard hyphens?

7. Transcription
o minim minim
macron
oun
o minim minim tail oun
londoun
Alisoun

8. Transcription

9. Transcription

11. The transcription for this present edition is based on
examination of both a microfilm of the Devonshire
Manuscript and the original document. Microfilm of the
Devonshire Manuscript was provided by the British
Library, from which two paper copies were prepared. These
paper copies were each transcribed in a blind process.
Collation of these two transcriptions proved unfeasible by
electronic means, so they were collated manually. This
resultant rough transcription was resolved as far as possible
using expanded paper prints and enlarged images.
Remaining areas of uncertainty were resolved with manual
reference to the original document itself, housed at the
British Library. This final, collated transcription forms the
basis for this current edition. (Siemens et al., The Devonshire

12. …the integration of social tools into the electronic
scholarly edition pushes the boundaries of authority
further, shifting power from a single editor, who shapes
the reading of any given text, to a group of readers
comprising a community whose interpretations
themselves form a new method of making meaning out of
the material. (Siemens et al., The Electronic Edition and
Emerging Social Media.)

15. What is Meant by
Editing in the Phrase
Social Editing?
Barbara Bordalejo
@bordalejo
@TextualScholar
University of Saskatchewan