Digital Renaissance Editions

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

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...

Advancing Scholarship through Digital Critical Editions: Mark Twain Project Online

Digital critical editions hold the promise of supporting new scholarly research activities not previously possible or practical with print critical editions. This promise resides in the specific ability to integrate corpora, their associated editorial material and other related content into system architectures and data structures that exploit the strengths of the digital publishing environment...

Tolstoy Digital: Mining Biographical Data in Literary Heritage Editions

This paper presents a solution for mining the biographical information from commentaries on Leo Tolstoy’s letters. It is implemented as a part of Tolstoy Digital Project – a semantically marked-up web publication of the 90-volume complete collection of Leo Tolstoy’s works. Extraction of relevant biographical information will be used to create an open database for all the persons who were someho...