PECE

PECE, short for Platform for Electronic Cultural Editions, is a web-based framework used to create, manage, and publish scholarly digital editions of cultural, historical, and literary texts. It is designed to support editors, scholars, and librarians by providing a coherent environment for encoding, annotating, and presenting digital editions.

Core features include support for structured text encoding (commonly TEI-compatible), management of multiple editions and revision histories, integration of high-resolution images and facsimiles, and tools for scholarly annotation, commentary, and cross-references. The platform also offers metadata handling, access control, workflow management, and publication pipelines that facilitate collaborative editorial projects and staged releases to readers.

PECE is widely used in the digital humanities and library science communities for presenting complex editorial projects that combine text, images, and scholarly apparatus. It emphasizes transparency and reproducibility in the creation of digital editions, allowing researchers to trace changes across versions and to compare variants.

Because PECE is purpose-built for scholarly editions, it is commonly employed by universities, museums, and research institutes seeking to publish digital editions of texts and related artifacts online. Its flexible architecture supports a range of editorial practices, from simple transcriptions to multi-author, multi-version scholarly publications.