Abstract
Much research and effort has been invested in creating a versatile format for digital texts and the TEI is now widely used in many communities. Much less consolidated thought has been spend to publish and distribute digital texts in ways that are most useful to scholars. To remedy this situation, this paper proposes new, additional publication forms for digital texts through distributed version control systems. This will allow publication and maintainence of several different versions of a text. In some respects, this will be similar to publishing a college or paperback edition of the text established in a critical edition. In addition to this, the user of a text published through such a system can subscribe to later changes or corrections of an edition. The architectural model proposed in this paper tries to contribute to a fundamental protocol that could form the base for applications serving the long-term needs of research and scholarship.
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31 If the user Chris decides to publish from this repository the "trans-en" branch—the branch that holds the text with its English translation—and the new edition 【東禪寺】, Alice will be able to get the public branches from the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) repository, and the new 【東禪寺】edition and the English translation, combining what is of interest to her in a new private repository on her own computer, as is shown in figure 8
32 CBETA might be interested in the new 【東禪寺】 edition added by Chris and add this to its own repository, which will make it more discoverable and might indicate an endorsement of the new version
Summary
Mark Twain Project Online (MTPO) The MTPO at the Bancroft Library, University of California is trying to "produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote" (http:// www.marktwainproject.org/). There is an accompanying print edition, but in this case the critical apparatus is only available online. The online edition provides some functionality for the user to add notes and bookmarks to the site, which can be read on subsequent visits
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