If Scholarly Editing means the exercise of textual criticism for the production of digital archives and editions, then crowdsourcing may produce more problems than solutions because a digital archive is a surrogate for material documents and a digital scholarly edition is a precise argument about the archive. But the analysis of the materials in the archive is truly a crowdsourcing task, for which adequate software design is still wanted and careful monitoring and vetting required.
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%0 Journal Article
%1 shillingsburg_reliable_2016
%A Shillingsburg, Peter
%D 2016
%J Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
%K Digital_Humanities
%P 890--897
%R 10.1093/llc/fqw044
%T Reliable Social Scholarly Editing
%V 31
%X If Scholarly Editing means the exercise of textual criticism for the production of digital archives and editions, then crowdsourcing may produce more problems than solutions because a digital archive is a surrogate for material documents and a digital scholarly edition is a precise argument about the archive. But the analysis of the materials in the archive is truly a crowdsourcing task, for which adequate software design is still wanted and careful monitoring and vetting required.