Von der Raupe zum Schmetterling oder Wie fliegen lernen – Editionsphilologie zwischen Infrastruktur und Semantic Web

Scholarly editions were one of the first engines for introducing digital methods into the humanities and social sciences. The digital infrastructures developed for creating individual editions could lead to a new type of edition, if the data were prepared in such a way as to make them usable in multiple editions. The reuse of data is playing an increasingly important role, but it also generates new problems. This essay describes the opportunities and risks of overlapping editions using the example of the AMIE infrastructure.