About

Developing the Edition and Site

This site was developed on a Hugo template hosted on GitHub pages. The linked repository contains the basic content for the site: the Introduction, About, Credit, and Resources pages. The data and metadata generated from the manuscript transcriptions and annotations are held in a separate GitHub repository, technologies-of-history/dyngley-data. The two repositories are linked to one another with EditionCrafter, a publication tool for digital critical editions under development by the Making and Knowing Project (M&K), Performant Software Solutions, and a number of case-study collaborators.

EditionCrafter, under development (2022-2024), is designed to be an open-source, customizable publishing tool that will allow users to deploy their own texts, data, and commentary as low-maintenance digital critical editions. It will enable the creation of static sites that rely on basic well-established technologies and workflows to address issues of longevity, maintenance, sustainability, and cost. For more about this work, see the NSF award announcement: Crafting an Open Source Digital Publication Tool for the History of Science.

This project builds upon the publication of Secrets of Craft and Nature. A Digital Critical Edition of BnF Ms. Fr. 640 by the Making and Knowing Project. The underlying software developed for Secrets of Craft and Nature will serve as the starting point for EditionCrafter.

Contact

Dr. Melissa Reynolds m.reynolds1[at]tcu.edu