Towards an Interoperable Digital Scholarly Edition
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Recent proposals for creating digital scholarly editions (DSEs) through the crowdsourcing oftranscriptions and collaborative scholarship, for the establishment of national repositories ofdigital humanities data, and for the referencing, sharing, and storage of DSEs, have underlinedthe need for greater data interoperability. The TEI Guidelines have tried to establish standardsfor encoding transcriptions since 1988. However, because the choice of tags is guided by humaninterpretation, TEI-XML encoded files are in general not interoperable. One way to fix thisproblem may be to break down the current all-in-one approach to encoding so that DSEs can bespecified instead by a bundle of separate resources that together offer greater interoperability:plain text versions, markup, annotations, and metadata. This would facilitate not only thedevelopment of more general software for handling DSEs, but also enable existing programs thatalready handle these kinds of data to function more efficiently.
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