ABSTRACT
This chapter examines methods of text encoding and analysis as complementary activities that can generate research questions and facilitate more expansive digital editions. Using examples from epigraphy and modern English literature, we discuss how the traditions of philology and textual scholarship shape our computational methodology, and how digital research has re-oriented traditional editorial workflows. Textual editing for digital publication encompasses not only the consensus of practitioners in philology, textual scholarship, and bibliography, but also the creation of a computational pipeline that curates the data and provides a structure for text analysis. Markup and text analysis can and should be treated as complementary activities planned together from the beginning of a project rather than as separate tasks. Digital text mining and analysis is already widely used for studying large data sets, but editing and text analysis of smaller sets of data can also create new avenues of scholarship. We discuss how appropriate workflows might best be designed for a project's aims. 1
