@article {lavagnino_electronic_1997,
	title = {Electronic Editions and the Needs of Readers},
	journal = {Critical Survey},
	volume = {9},
	number = {1},
	year = {1997},
	note = {00006},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {70{\textendash}77},
	abstract = {Lavagnino begins by acknowledging that the scholarly ideal of an electronic edition is to present an unmediated version of original source material - an archive. Lavagnino opposes the usefulness of this practice by asserting that oftentimes Renaissance source material needs to be contextualized and edited to be correctly understood, and that the archive only offers "a limited representation of these texts". In order to illustrate this point, Lavagnino takes up two cases studies: the Thomas Middleton edition and the corpus of Renaissance texts from the Women Writers Project (WWP). Lavagnino sums the article by returning to print editions: "[e]ditions have always been powerful tools for shaping the way we see authors and text". This same power, Lavagnino argues, is inherent in digital editions and should be exercised appropriately.},
	issn = {0011-1570},
	url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/41556054},
	author = {Lavagnino, John}
}