www.victorianweb.org
The digital archive I have chosen is The Victorian Web. I find it to be an interesting example of some of the issues that were brought up in both the McGann and the Siemens et al. articles. The archive is curated by George P. Landow, professor of English and Art History at Brown University. Landow does serve as a gatekeeper for what gets added to the site; however, anyone is welcome to e-mail him with contributions. This is somewhere in between a standard edition and the social edition Siemens et al. were envisioning. The other interesting thing about this archive is it is somewhat decentralized in nature. Part of this comes from the fact that it is centered around a certain time period instead of a work of literature, but even when you click on the author or textual tabs you get no one text or author from this time period privileged. You can find various information on a number of texts, with most individual pages using hypertextual editing in order to provide outside information and criticism about an author or their work. Victorian Web has some limitations, and I think a lot of this is due to the scope of this project (for instance, many longer works like novels do not have hyperlinks to a full text). It is still a fascinating example of what a digital archive could look like and how digital archives do not have to privilege a single text, work, or even author.
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