An experience outside of EVT. The digital edition of the documents of the abbey of S. Maria della Grotta on the international portal Monasterium.Net

Abstract

The paper describes context, development, methodology, tools, problems and plans for the future of the research activities which have already originated the collaborative digital critical edition of the documents of the Abbey of S. Maria della Grotta (2018). This edition aimed at experimenting with the editor of the Monasterium.Net platform and was developed by an international group of editors. Its main function was to test the real and current possibilities of producing critical editions of documents online and to address the problem of the full recognition of digital products of this kind within the relevant scientific community. Naturally, this function implies also the search for a practical solution to interrogate and interpret the data it contains.