TEXTvre: Textual scholarship and the institutional ecosystem

Abstract

Digital humanists have for many years been producing online editions of texts based on TEI XML, a widely-adopted standard for marking up textual resources with semantic content. More recently, the e-infrastructure community has been investigating virtual research environments (VREs), which integrate information resources and tools for supporting research activities. These two fields of activity came together in TextGrid, a collaborative VRE for textual scholarship. This paper describes and evaluates an attempt to build on TextGrid by developing an institutionally-focused ecosystem that includes texts, tools, services, infrastructural resources, and, of course, the scholars themselves.