Opening the book: data models and distractions in digital scholarly editing

James Cummings
2019 International Journal of Digital Humanities  
This article argues that editors of scholarly digital editions should not be distracted by underlying technological concerns except when these concerns affect the editorial tasks at hand. It surveys issues in the creation of scholarly digital editions and the open licensing of resources and addresses concerns about underlying data models and vocabularies, such as the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative. It calls for solutions which promote the collaborative creation, annotation, and
more » ... cation of scholarly digital editions. The article draws a line between issues with which editors of scholarly digital editions should concern themselves and issues which may only prove to be distractions.
doi:10.1007/s42803-019-00016-6 fatcat:azytmfu4brbrnf64slio2pib44