Unlocking the Potential of Digital Scholarly Editions: Strategies for Attracting the DH Community to Utilize Repositories

A variety of software products are used for the collection and presentation of digital scholarly editions. In our view, repositories already provide many important functionalities for this purpose. We will develop concepts and strategies based on the open-source repository framework MyCoRe to make these advantages accessible to the Digital Humanities (DH) community and to make the use of repositories in the context of digital scholarly edition projects more attractive. An important objective is that the repository is actively used during the creation process of the edition and can thus be used as a tool for collaboration.

Individual project examples are used to examine both the possibilities of data ingestion using standardized metadata formats and the integration of existing services such as TEI tools and authority data services. The poster showcases a visual representation, featuring an infrastructure sketch and data flow diagram, illustrating the interaction of TEI tools and repositories. Through this, we highlight the pathway toward structured and schema-compliant data entry for digital scholarly editions. Our presentation seeks to inspire a dialogue on how these strategies can contribute to the broader goal of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data practices in Digital Humanities.