A Different Kind of Digital Edition

Most primary sources never get published. The model we rely on to fix this, grant-funded digital editions, is too expensive, too centralised, and too fragile to work at scale. I have just published a post explaining why I am building the critical edition of Cavriana’s letters differently: digitised primary source documents that grow organically, with minimal infrastructure, automated maintenance, open to collaboration, and so cheap that no grants are even needed. It is an argument for a kind of digital humanities that works regardless of institutional support.