Editing Historical Documents by
This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction, as well as at those who are new to the craft and want to know how to begin work on publishing historical documents of interest to them.
A Guide to Documentary Editing by
For more than twenty years, A Guide to Documentary Editing has proven an invaluable tool for scholarly editors, editors-in-training, readers of documentary editions, and other students of American history and literature. This new, extensively revised edition of the Guide arrives in the midst of great change in the field. In addition to exploring fully the increasingly central role electronic technology plays in the editing process, this edition provides the most current treatment of the craft's fundamental issues. These include locating and collecting sources, transcribing source texts, conventions of textual treatment, dealing with nontextual elements, and preparing editions for publishers. The documentary-editing environment is more vibrant than ever, and the authors draw on this wealth of activity to include numerous examples of the Guide's principles in practice. The most innovative aspect of this latest edition of the Guide is a new digital component. Users may access the entire contents online through a dedicated Web site. In addition to offering the convenience of easy online access, this Web edition will include hyperlinks to relevant literature and will act as an archive for material from earlier editions. Most important, it will be periodically revised and updated, to ensure a Guide that is always current with best practice. The online edition is available at http://gde.upress.virginia.edu. Each edition of the Guide has become the standard text for scholarly editors, whether their focus is correspondence, journals, diaries, financial records, professional papers, or unpublished manuscripts. This print/digital edition presents this essential guide in its most dynamic and useful form yet. Published in association with the Association for Documentary Editing
Archives-related tutorials, manuals and guides
Archives and Collections Management Resources Handling:
Processing plan overview:
Intellectual Order v. Physical Order
Processing overview
Description and metadata overview
Description “Good, Better, Best” – explains what goes into each field in a finding aid
Arrangement and levels of processing and Creating a Processing Plan
Controlled Vocabularies
Longer and more comprehensive look at archives work and
practices:
Archives Best Practices and Archives Best Practices
​​Processing Collections Steps
