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New Technology and New Roles: The Need for Corpus Editors
Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox
Paper presented at 5th Annual ACM Digital Library Conference San Antonio, Texas. June 2000.
Abstract: Digital libraries challenge humanists and other academics to rethink the relationship between technology and their work. At the Perseus Project, we have seen the rise of a new combination of skills. The "Corpus Editor" manages a collection of materials that are thematically coherent and focused but are too large to be managed solely with the labor-intensive techniques of traditional editing. The corpus editor must possess a degree of domain specific knowledge and technical expertise that virtually no established graduate training provides. This new position poses a challenge to humanists as they train and support members of the field pursuing new, but necessary tasks.
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