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title : About
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- One of our most pressing and ever revolving needs as scholars is to pass on our textual artifacts
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+ One of our most pressing and ever-evolving needs as scholars is to pass on our textual artifacts
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from one generation to another. The art of textual editing, among other practices, has helped many
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cultures to remember and interpret for centuries. Alas, that art is practiced and encouraged in its
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highest form by a dwindling number of scholars. In a digital environment the problem is compounded
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- by the difficulties of the medium. While vast repositories, and "e-publications" appear on the
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+ by the difficulties of the medium. While vast repositories and "e-publications" appear on the
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online scene yearly, very few manifest a textual scholar's disciplined attention to detail. In
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contrast, most textual scholars who have made the leap to a rigorous digital practice have focused
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on markup, relying on technical teams to deploy and maintain their work. This makes your average
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- scholarly digital edition a very costly, and therefore limited affair.
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+ scholarly digital edition a very costly and therefore limited affair.
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As we see it, a minimal edition is one that aims to reduce the size and complexity of the back and
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- front end, and the learning curves for the user and the producer. Out of-the-box, this theme can
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- help you build a simple reading edition, or a traditional scholarly edition with footnotes and a
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- bibliography without breaking the bank. In our estimate, these are the two most immediately useful
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- type of editions for editors and readers. An edition produced with Ed consists of static pages whose
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- rate of decay is substantially lower than database-driven systems. As an added bonus, these static
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- pages require less bandwith. Our hope is that our approach can help beginners or veterans deploy
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- beautiful editions with less effort, that it can help us teach a 'full stack' in one academic
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- semester, allow us to care for our projects at less cost, and perhaps, just perhaps, allow us to
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- generate high-quality editions on github.io in large quantities based on the
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+ front end while flattening the learning curves for the user and the producer. Out of the box, the Ed
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+ theme can help you build a simple reading edition, or a traditional scholarly edition with footnotes
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+ and a bibliography, without breaking the bank. In our estimate, these are the two most immediately
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+ useful type of editions for editors and readers. An edition produced with Ed consists of static
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+ pages whose rate of decay is substantially lower than database-driven systems. As an added bonus,
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+ these static pages require less bandwidth. Our hope is that our approach can help beginners and
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+ veterans deploy beautiful editions with less effort, and that it can help us teach a 'full stack'
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+ [ in one academic semester] ( https://github.com/susannalles/MinimalEditions/blob/master/index.md ) ,
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+ while allowing us to care for our projects at less cost, and perhaps, just perhaps, to generate
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+ high-quality editions on github.io in large quantities based on the
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[ git-lit] ( http://jonreeve.com/2015/09/introducing-git-lit/ ) model by Jonathan Reeve. We're coming
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for you, Kindle!
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- [ Daisy Miller: A Comedy in Three Acts] ( https://britaneeelizabeth.github.io/ed/texts/DaisyMillerPlay/ )
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## Current Features
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- Templates for narrative, drama and poetry
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- Responsive design for mobile phones, tablets and PCs.
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- Relatively easy to learn and teach
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- - Works well in high- or low- bandwitdh scenarios
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+ - Works well in high- or low- bandwidth scenarios
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- Easier for digital archives and libraries to preserve
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- Open source, open access
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- Unobtrusive footnotes
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## Installing and using Ed
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To learn how to install and begin using Ed, please visit our
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- [ documentation page] ( http://minicomp.github.io/ed/documentation/ ) .
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+ [ documentation page] ( http://minicomp.github.io/ed/documentation ) .
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