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While the central focus of attention at the CTS is likely to be on literary texts of the last centuries, we acknowledge that the relation between knowledge and documents in many fields is analogous to that in literature. Musical compositions frequently begin with manuscript compositions that often have printing histories involving editors and collaborations. Other fields, from philosophy to dance, find primary materials in documentary forms that are subject to change in transmission and subject to social pressures at every recreation and performance. Studies of these histories are within the purview of the CTS.
The CTS acknowledges the important role of textual scholarship in the creation of print scholarly editions, electronic scholarly editions, and the role of collectors and libraries in creating archives of manuscript and printed matter and in creating electronic access to these materials. Traditionally these kinds of activities have been designed in proprietary ways, to be used as the creators have intended them to be used.
The CTS is committed to promoting an atmosphere of scholarship that creates and makes access to primary materials in environments that encourage users to invent their own uses and purposes relative to them. On the one hand, it seeks to preserve and maintain the materials of knowledge production; and, on the other, it seeks methods of presentation that provide the materials and received knowledge in ways that encourage the creation of new knowledge.
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