Digital Variants: June 2014

About this blog

This blog is a technical record of my attempts to create a first class website for ecdosis.net. This will be a revision of www.digitalvariants.org and is intended to incorporate genetic texts in the MVD (Multi-Version Document) format. It will be the first website to allow the user to view and edit original texts with all their raw corrections, revisions, and variant versions as they were truly meant to be: as multi-version texts. A lot of people have talked about the theoretical possibility of doing this but the tools they choose are not up to the task. In fact the history of Digital Humanities is all about shoehorning humanistic problems into off-the-shelf technical solutions that don't fit. This project, on the other hand, is about breaking free from the limitations of mere markup and database structures to represent the true nature of originally analog documents.

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