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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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