Documentary editing

This article is about an archival process. For the editing of documentary films, see Film editing. For the process of improving writing, see Copy editing.

Documentary editing is a process involving the publication of documents, selected from archives, museums, libraries and other institutional or private collections. A documentary editor selects documents and also annotates them to add context. The documents are then published, serving as primary source material for researchers. Documentary editing thus enables scholars, journalists and other researchers and interested readers to approach and analyze the contents of documents, without visiting them directly in institutional or private collections.

The specific editorial methodologies for various types of documents are developed and defined by archival science and other auxiliary sciences of history.

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