The Scholarly Editor’s AI Sourcebook
Sophie Whittle, Matthew Groves, Michael Pidd and Bridgette Wessels
2025
Cite the Book
Whittle, S., Groves, M., Pidd, M. and Wessels, B. (2025). The Scholarly Editor's AI Sourcebook. Sheffield: The Digital Humanities Institute, 2025. Available online at: <https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/ai-sourcebook>
Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), AH/W001489/1.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY).
Introduction
This sourcebook presents a descriptive account, along with supporting data, of the research and development undertaken to assess machine-assisted methods in the creation of a teaching edition of The Pardoner’s Prologue & Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.
The prototype edition was created by the C21 Editions’ UK project team at the University of Sheffield with support from the University of Glasgow. The sourcebook was written by Dr. Sophie Whittle.
Acknowledgements
We are extremely grateful to Prof. Jeremy Smith for his generous time and exceptional vocal talent in creating an audio recording of The Pardoner’s Prologue & Tale to accompany the edition.
We would also like to thank Dr. Fraser Dallachy, Prof. Ruth Evans, Dr. Charlotte Steenbrugge, Prof. Alison Wiggins, Dr. Graham Williams and Dr Lydia Zeldenrust for supporting the project’s work in understanding user requirements, as well as students at the University of Glasgow, University of Sheffield, and Saint Louis University.
10 February 2025