Pushkin Digital: Institutional Experience of the Digital Transformation of the Academic Edition of the Classics

The article is dedicated to the Pushkin Digital project of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the accompanying institutional shift it entails in the preparation of scholarly editions of the classics. The focus is on the new functions of the research institute as an operator of a digital research environment: the transition from a traditional corpus of documents to a multi-layered extensible database, the creation of a digital manuscript repository, the integration of editions and variants in an interactive form, and a hypertextual scholarly commentary. This shift requires new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration between philologists and computer scientists, changes in organizational roles and formats of scholarly interaction, which collectively lead to supplementing traditional forms with a new type of institutional activity in the humanities in the era of digital transformation.

institutional transformation, digital transformation, Pushkin Digital, academic digital edition, digital research environment, interdisciplinary collaboration, philology and computer science, digital archive, digital manuscript repository, hypertextual annotation