Witt, Jeffrey C.
[Author]
;
Bleier, Roman
[Contributor];
Bürgermeister, Martina
[Contributor];
Klug, Helmut W.
[Contributor];
Neuber, Frederike
[Contributor];
Schneider, Gerlinde
[Contributor]
Digital Scholarly Editions and API Consuming Applications
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Media type:
E-Article;
Text
Title:
Digital Scholarly Editions and API Consuming Applications
Contributor:
Witt, Jeffrey C.
[Author]
imprint:
BoD, 2018
Language:
English;
German
ISBN:
978-3-7481-0925-9
Origination:
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Description:
This article argues for the importance of a rigorous separation of the data of digital scholarly editions from the interfaces that display them. It is only when we are able to make such a separation, and in turn see our interfaces as API consuming applications, that we will be able to accommodate a plurality of innovative interfaces without redundancy and waste. As this paper will argue, the ability to a make such a separation requires a dramatic rethinking of the essence of a scholarly edition. The article first introduces in abstract what this rethinking looks like and then looks at one attempt to actualize this theory in the case of the medieval scholastic corpus. Through a number of examples of ongoing work, this article shows how such a paradigm shift enables the efficient construction of interfaces and that, because of this efficiency, a plurality of interfaces can be swiftly constructed in order to satisfy a wide variety of research interests.