The Lexicon of Scholarly Editing is an open academic resource for definitions of concepts that are relevant to the field of Scholarly Editing. Rather positing new definitions, however, the lexicon quotes existing definitions from textual scholars as they appear in academic articles, monographs, and the like. The Lexicon was first developed in WordPress (2012 onwards), but has been redeveloped into a Jekyll website in 2020 to make it more sustainable, more citable, to improve collaboration, crediting, and versioning options, and to allow for more automation while also publishing the definitions as a dataset. Find out more on our About page.
This template was developed by Wout Dillen, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp as part of his position as the university's CLARIAH-VL coordinator. He is also the secretary of the European Society of Textual Scholarship, and the General Editor of the society's Open Access jounal Variants from Issue 15 onwards.
This website was developed using Jekyll, and is hosted on GitHub Pages by making use of GitHub Actions (as documented in the Jekyll documentation). It uses Jekyll plugins such as jekyll-scholar and jekyll-last-modified-at, and its search function makes use of lunar.js. Except for the definitions themselves, this website's contents and design are licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
The Lexicon is always looking for new definitions. If you have one or more that you'd like to share, please do! Follow our simple contribution steps, and you'll be credited for your efforts in the Lexicon.
For a trimmed down quick reference guide on how to add definitions to the Lexicon, check out our contribution file. For a more elaborate walk through the different steps, have a look at our wiki.