A rationale of digital documentary editions

Digital Documentary Editions and the Others

It is a truth universally acknowledged that documentary editions have found a very welcoming home in cyberspace. Documentary editing has often been considered a lower form of scholarship, as suggested by its being commonly called "noncritical editing," a name that barely hides the conviction of its being a non-or prescholarly endeavor. 1 However, this allegedly humble form of editing has now ta...

Digital Editions beyond XML - Graph-based Digital Editions

XML has been the de facto standard for digital editions for years, but its serious limitations include an inability to represent overlapping markup and the encoding of multiple annotation hierarchies. With emerging graph database technologies we have the opportunity to develop new approaches. In this paper the advantages and modelling principles of graph-based digital editions will be discussed.

Beyond the Text: Digital Editions and Performance

Collaborative Construction of Updatable Digital Critical Editions: A Generic Approach

In the frame of Digital Humanities, many collaborative scholarly publishing projects are arising. Editors often give shape to those projects by designing a data structure that validates the annotated content of the edition. In practise, in the course of annotation, data structures have to be updated. Besides, they determine the expressivity of the critical apparatus. The challenge is to design ...

Medieval Manuscripts, Hypertext and Reading. Visions of Digital Editions

How was a medieval manuscript meant to be read? This is a question that has concerned me for a long time in my work with Old Swedish manuscripts from Vadstena Abbey. In many manuscripts we can find traces of the historical reading situation; for example, pointing hands, marginal notes, etc. Such signals had an important function for the medieval reader, but they are rarely put forward in modern...