editiontoedition

editiontoedition is a digital humanities project and platform that focuses on documenting and visualizing edition-to-edition changes in literary and scholarly texts. It provides tools to compare variants across editions, track changes, and annotate textual differences. It aims to support textual criticism and bibliographic research by enabling researchers, editors, and readers to explore how a text has evolved over time.

The project began as a collaboration among librarians, scholars, and software developers in response to increasing digitization of editions. It collects edition data from libraries, publishers, and community submissions, and uses a diff-based visualization to show insertions, deletions, substitutions.

Features include edition histories for individual works, diff views that highlight textual variants, bibliographic metadata, provenance trails, and an interface for annotating changes. It supports both print and digital editions, including translations and editorial notes. It also offers export options and API access for researchers.

Governance: it is typically governed as an open-source or community-driven project with licenses such as CC BY or public domain, depending on contributed content. Community standards govern data quality, citation, and attribution. It has partnerships with libraries, archives, and scholarly groups.

Impact and challenges: it has been used in literary studies to illustrate editorial practices, in cataloging and bibliographic work, and in classroom instruction. Challenges include copyright restrictions, data verification, and maintaining comprehensive coverage given the volume of editions.