Digital philology. Online service for critical editions. Theoretical and practical issues
Palkó Gábor
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Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum
Scholarly/critical textual philology has a history dated back to the famous Ancient Library of Alexandria. The process of comparing text versions and providing references to other texts is one of the earliest example of building a network to make the archived cultural heritage available and reusable to a wider public. Still, this kind of textual matrix is underrepresented in current projects of digital cultural heritage. The reason: while in principle digital technology is eminently capable of producing and displaying textual networks, the practice shows us that the fast changing of digital infrastructure and environment makes it very hard to find stable and durable solutions that are suitable to provide standardized framework for such textual practices.