Towards an Interoperable Digital Scholarly Edition

Recent proposals for creating digital scholarly editions (DSEs) through the crowdsourcing of transcriptions and collaborative scholarship, for the establishment of national repositories of digital humanities data, and for the referencing, sharing, and storage of DSEs, have underlined the need for gr...

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Published inJournal of the Text Encoding Initiative Vol. 7; no. Issue 7
Main Author Schmidt, Desmond
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published TEI Consortium 15.11.2014
Text Encoding Initiative Consortium
Subjects
annotation
digital scholarly editions
interoperability
metadata
stand-off markup
annotation
digital scholarly editions
stand-off markup
metadata
interoperability
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Summary:Recent proposals for creating digital scholarly editions (DSEs) through the crowdsourcing of transcriptions and collaborative scholarship, for the establishment of national repositories of digital humanities data, and for the referencing, sharing, and storage of DSEs, have underlined the need for greater data interoperability. The TEI Guidelines have tried to establish standards for encoding transcriptions since 1988. However, because the choice of tags is guided by human interpretation, TEI-XML encoded files are in general not interoperable. One way to fix this problem may be to break down the current all-in-one approach to encoding so that DSEs can be specified instead by a bundle of separate resources that together offer greater interoperability: plain text versions, markup, annotations, and metadata. This would facilitate not only the development of more general software for handling DSEs, but also enable existing programs that already handle these kinds of data to function more efficiently.
ISSN:2162-5603
2162-5603
DOI:10.4000/jtei.979