%0 Journal Article %1 kalvesmaki_canonical_2014 %A Kalvesmaki, Joel %D 2014 %J Digital Humanities Quarterly %K Digital_Humanities TEI %N 2 %T Canonical References in Electronic Texts: Rationale and Best Practices %U http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/8/2/000181/000181.html %V 8 %X Systems of canonical references, whereby segments of written works are sequentially labeled with numbers or letters to facilitate cross-referencing, are widely used but seldom studied, undeservedly so. Canonical numbers are complex interpretive mechanisms with a great deal of potential for anyone editing and using electronic texts. In this essay I consider the rationale for and nature of canonical reference systems, to recommend principles to consider when deploying them in digital projects. After briefly reviewing the history of canonical references I note how they have been used so far, emphasizing the advances made by Canonical Text Services (CTS). I argue that the practical and theoretical problems that remain unaddressed require engagement with descriptions of how textual scholarship works and how notional literary works relate to the artefacts that carry them (using Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, FRBR). By correlating a theory of canonical reference numbers with those two models — editorial workflow and creative works — I offer key principles that should be addressed when planning, writing, and using digital projects.

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