Documentary Editing, Association for
Date of this Version
Spring 2006
Document Type
Article
Citation
Documentary Editing, Vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 2006. ISSN 0196-7134
Abstract
Which of these things is not like the other?
SELECTION, VERIFICATION, ANNOTATION, SEX, ALCOHOL, INDEXING
Asking this question of seasoned editors (at an ADE meeting) might skew the answers a bit. Or maybe I missed something when I attended Camp Edit. At least, that is how it seems having talked to several veterans of the Camp Edit of the 1970s, which had a level of camaraderie that quite exceeded my own, comparatively chaste experience a year ago.
In this and other ways, training programs in documentary editing under the aegis of the NHPRC have changed over time, reflecting changes in the profession. Camp Edit, for instance, no longer requires campers to bring their own typewriters. Now, knowledge of computerized word processors is assumed, and digitization is the new frontier. During a nine-month NHPRC fellowship in historical documentary editing, a fellow is more likely to learn about XML coding than how to prepare a microfilm collection.
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