From Practice to Framework: Model Digital Scholarly Editions in the Jagiellonian Digital Platform

Entering New Territories of Digital Scholarly Editing

The Digital Scholarly Editing Laboratory (LabEdyt), an interdisciplinary team within the flagship project Digital Humanities Lab at the Jagiellonian University, was founded in 2022 to address the growing need for sustainable digital scholarly editions (DSEs) in Poland. While DSEs are already being developed with some regularity across many academic contexts, they remain a complex and evolving challenge – even in well-established environments. In the Polish context, their adoption is still limited to a few research centers and often regarded as too complicated to be worth considering. Persistent myths and misconceptions about the usefulness and durability of such editions, along with a reluctance to publish under open licenses, still act as a barrier to progress. LabEdyt’s mission is to create practical workflows and reusable models that lower the entry barrier to digital editing and support researchers in transitioning from print-based to digital methods. This paper presents the methodological framework and current outcomes of three model projects developed within the Jagiellonian Digital Platform.