The Edition: Documentary Editing
A number of professional organizations and resources exist for scholarly editors:
The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) — There are many organizations whose shared interests comprise ADE. ADE provides for the exchange of information between scholarly editors and promotes the principles and values of documentary editing.
The Modern Language Association (MLA)
The MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions
General Principles for Electronic Scholarly Editions by Peter Shillingsburg
Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions, by the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions
MacCASE — software developed to assist the Scholarly Editing process
The Society for Textual Scholarship — an international organization of scholars working in textual studies across a variety of disciplines
“An Essay on the Nomenclature of Editions and a Representative Listing” co-authored by the director of the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre — discusses terms: definitive editions, critical editions, scholarly editions, electronic scholarly editing, documentary editing; and the evolution of organizations
Electronic References & Scholarly Citations of Internet Sources —contains numerous links dealing with the emerging citation standards in both paper and online publications
Documentary Editing Projects
Other documentary editing projects affiliated with ADE include:
The Center for Dewey Studies Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
The Correspondence of William James Texas A&M University
The Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
The Frederick Douglass Papers, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis