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urn:uuid:bd95a164-305c-45ac-a67c-e8ed1b5f3ca3 03 01 01 urn:uuid:bd95a164-305c-45ac-a67c-e8ed1b5f3ca3 15 9781805110897 06 10.11647/OBP.0355 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 From Handwriting to Footprinting Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis 1 A01 21 0000-0002-4593-059X Anne Baillot First edition. 01 eng 00 177 03 93 ABC 10 ART056000 B2 Digital Humanities 12 GM 04 Z110.R4 12 GLP 93 JHMC B2 Material Culture 10 SOC002010 12 H 93 RNPG 10 SCI092000 12 RNPG 01 06 03 00 How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future?In From Handwriting to Footprinting, Anne Baillot seeks to answer this question by offering a detailed analysis of the methods that enable access to textual materials, in particular, access to books of literary significance. Baillot marshals her considerable expertise in the field of digital humanities to establish a philological overview of the changing boundaries of ‘access’ to literary heritage over centuries, deconstructing the western tradition of archiving and how it has led to current digital dissemination practices. Rigorously examining the negative environmental impact of digital publishing and archiving, Baillot proposes an alternative model of preservation and dissemination which reconciles fundamental traditions with the values of social responsibility and sustainability in an era of climate crisis. Integrating historical, archival and environmental perspectives, From Handwriting to Footprinting illuminates the impact that digitisation has had on the dissemination and preservation of textual heritage and reflects on what its future may hold. It is invaluable reading for anyone interested in textual history from a linguistic or philological perspective, as well as those working on publishing, archival and infrastructure projects that require the storing and long-term preservation of texts, or who want to know how to develop a more mindful attachment to digitised material. 04 00 Introduction 1 1 Archiving text 5 1.1 What archives do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.1.1 Institutionalisation of archiving . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.1.2 Digital archiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 1.2 From writing to reading to archiving: becoming text . . . 32 1.2.1 Temporality and text as media: the power of genesis 33 1.2.2 Traces of the past in the present . . . . . . . . . . . 44 2 Publishing, editing, and their digital transformation 55 2.1 From text to book to œuvre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 2.1.1 The deal between writer and publisher . . . . . . 58 2.1.2 Negotiating the œuvre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 2.2 Text quality from scan to digital edition . . . . . . . . . . 78 2.2.1 Emancipation from the page? . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 2.2.2 Access made Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 3 What the climate crisis does to text 111 3.1 The environmental cost of access to text . . . . . . . . . . 113 3.1.1 Assessing the environmental footprint of text . . . 114 3.1.2 Archiving text for tomorrow . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 3.2 Trying to make this book an environmental lightweight . 134 3.2.1 Writing, printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 3.2.2 Distributing, archiving — and the readers . . . . . 142 Conclusion 151 Index 154 Bibliography 155 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20230706 2023 06 15 9781805110873 06 15 9781805110880 06 15 9781805110897 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0355 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0355.pdf 99 01