Dr Stephen McGowan

Ramsay, Rosalind; colleagues,

doi:10.1192/pb.bp.112.039099

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“…This is real theoretical work!’ Galey and Ruecker (2010) have argued similarly that design, prototypes, and code can be scholarly arguments as well. Further examples — such as the understanding of coding as a form of disciplined play and in that sense as an instrument of research (Rockwell 2003), and reflections on the hermeneutic role of code in the digital humanities (Ramsay 2011) — support the view of coding as a form of scholarly authorship and argument as well.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Code has the potential to change and rewrite the structure and rules of culture, but textual scholarship and digital humanities have hardly begun to establish an effective critical mode towards this softwarization, and moreover to its own softwarization. Ramsay (2011) after being heavily criticized withdrew in part from his blunt claim that to belong to the digital humanities one needs to be able to author code. Yet I would indeed argue that it is pivotal that code literacy becomes to a certain extent an intrinsic part of humanities methodology.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Author, Editor, Engineer — Code & the Rewriting of Authorship in Scholarly Editing

Zundert

2015

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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This article examines the relation of software creation to scholarship, particularly within the domain of textual scholarship and the creation of (digital) scholarly editions. To this end both scholarly editing and the creation of software are considered with regard to the individual relationship they have to the concept of authorship. I argue that both are in fact forms of revisionary authorship, and that they are scholarly in so far as they serve to present an expression of a text that can be taken as an argument about the interpretation of that text. In addition software's performative aspect allows it to rewrite itself and other textual expressions; its application rewrites the very process of textual scholarship. Because of its scholarly ramifications the creation of scholarly argument and expressions of editions by means of code should be claimed as scholarly work by its authors, i.e. programmers. Without proper appropriation the accountability for scholarly process becomes problematic.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%