About
OML 2.0 aims to be a scholarly digital edition that…
As we see it, a minimal edition is one that aims to reduce the size and complexity of the back and front end while flattening the learning curves for the user and the producer. Out of the box, the Ed theme can help you build a simple reading edition, or a traditional scholarly edition with footnotes and a bibliography, without breaking the bank. In our estimate, these are the two most immediately useful type of editions for editors and readers. An edition produced with Ed consists of static pages whose rate of decay is substantially lower than database-driven systems. As an added bonus, these static pages require less bandwidth. Our hope is that our approach can help beginners and veterans deploy beautiful editions with less effort, and that it can help us teach a ‘full stack’ in one academic semester, while allowing us to care for our projects at less cost, and perhaps, just perhaps, to generate high-quality editions on github.io in large quantities based on the git-lit model by Jonathan Reeve. We’re coming for you, Kindle!
Sample Ed editions.
- Our sample site is the first edition built with Ed.
- Fugitive Verses: Popular Reprinted Poetry from Nineteenth Century Newspapers
- mini lazarillo: A minimal edition of the Lazarillo de Tormes
- Making and Knowing: The BnF Ms Fr 640 in Translation
- Daisy Miller: A Comedy in Three Acts
Current Features
- Templates for narrative, drama and poetry
- Responsive design for mobile phones, tablets and PCs.
- Relatively easy to learn and teach
- Works well in high- or low- bandwidth scenarios
- Easier for digital archives and libraries to preserve
- Open source, open access
- Unobtrusive footnotes
- Metadata in Dublin Core and OpenGraph to play nice with Zotero, libraries and social media.
- Automatic table of content generation
- Simple search functionality
- Annotations via hypothes.is
- Optional: Ability to generate well-formatted bibliographies and linked citations
Installing and using Ed
To learn how to install and begin using Ed, please visit our documentation page.