editing
Let an agent explain editing across text, film, sound, image and reference media, relay methods, roles and standards from publishing and media sources, describe collaborative and scholarly editing, and distinguish editing from writing, proofreading, censorship and translation.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain editing across text, film, sound, image and reference media, relay methods, roles and standards from publishing and media sources, describe collaborative and scholarly editing, and distinguish editing from writing, proofreading, censorship and translation.
The process of selecting, arranging, correcting and refining material to prepare it for publication or presentation, applied to text in copy, developmental and documentary editing, to film and sound in post-production, to images through selective enlargement and other darkroom and digital techniques, to reference works in thesaurus compilation and mapping, to collaborative documents such as wikis, and to cultural adaptation such as the Americanization of texts; editing shapes meaning and quality and is a profession as well as an everyday activity.
What it is for: Preparing material for publication or presentation.
It can be explain kinds; relay methods and roles; describe collaborative and scholarly editing; distinguish related activities.
Distinguishing features
Selection and refinement
Many media
Professional and everyday
Shapes meaning
What it looks like
Not a visible object; revised texts, cut films and adjusted images.
Physical character
editorial roles: developmental, line, copy, proof list - in publishing
film editing Oscar since: 1934 year
Wikipedia edits: billions count - cumulative
How it is recognised
Selecting and refining material for publication
Copy and documentary editing, film and sound editing, selective enlargement, thesaurus compilation, collaborative editing, Americanization
Writing creates; proofreading checks; censorship suppresses; translation converts languages
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
is practised by - as a profession
is contrasted with - which checks for errors
In practice
Families and kinds
text editing including developmental, copy and line editing
documentary and scholarly editing of historical texts
film, video and sound editing
image editing including selective enlargement in photography
reference editing such as thesaurus compilation and mapping
collaborative editing in wikis and shared documents
adaptation editing such as Americanization
Standards and regulation
Style guides such as Chicago and house styles
Editorial ethics codes
Standards for scholarly editions
Platform policies for collaborative editing
Failure modes and hazards
Editing that distorts meaning
Confusing editing with censorship
Registry aliases mixing unrelated techniques
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.editing
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What editing is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is editing, and how does it differ from writing, proofreading, censorship and translation? definition
- Is the question about editing in general or in text, film, sound, image, reference or collaborative media? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What are copy, developmental, documentary, film, sound and image editing, selective enlargement, thesaurus compilation and Americanization? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Practice Practice.
Practice.
Text
Text editing.
Text
Text.
- How do editors work with authors through developmental, line and copy editing under style guides? action
- Which references are standard? provenance
Media
Film and sound.
Media
Media.
- How do film and sound editors assemble and shape footage and audio? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Special Specialised editing.
Sources.
Scholarly
Scholarly and reference editing.
Scholarly
Scholarly.
- How are documentary editions and reference works such as thesauri compiled and edited? provenance
- Which entry fits scholarly editing? action
Collaborative
Collaborative editing.
Collaborative
Collaborative.
- How does collaborative editing work in wikis and shared documents, and what governance applies? provenance
- Which entry fits collaborative editing? action
Context Profession and history.
Context.
Profession
Profession.
Profession
Profession.
- What careers exist in editing, and what ethics and standards apply? provenance
- Which entry fits editor? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How did editing develop from scribes and printers to modern publishing and digital media? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of publishing? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should film editing and copy editing be separate primary entries?
- How should publishing and media sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases from photography, lexicography and adaptation; should they be split off?