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+title: "About"
+---
+
+One of our most pressing and ever-evolving needs as scholars is to pass on our textual artifacts
+from one generation to another. The art of textual editing, among other practices, has helped many
+cultures to remember and interpret for centuries. Alas, that art is practiced and encouraged in its
+highest form by a dwindling number of scholars. In a digital environment the problem is compounded
+by the difficulties of the medium. While vast repositories and "e-publications" appear on the
+online scene yearly, very few manifest a textual scholar's disciplined attention to detail. In
+contrast, most textual scholars who have made the leap to a rigorous digital practice have focused
+on markup, relying on technical teams to deploy and maintain their work. This makes your average
+scholarly digital edition a very costly and therefore limited affair.
+
+As we see it, a minimal edition is one that aims to reduce the size and complexity of the back and
+front end while flattening the learning curves for the user and the producer. Out of the box, the Ed
+theme can help you build a simple reading edition, or a traditional scholarly edition with footnotes
+and a bibliography, without breaking the bank. In our estimate, these are the two most immediately
+useful type of editions for editors and readers. An edition produced with Ed consists of static
+pages whose rate of decay is substantially lower than database-driven systems. As an added bonus,
+these static pages require less bandwidth. Our hope is that our approach can help beginners and
+veterans deploy beautiful editions with less effort, and that it can help us teach a 'full stack'
+[in one academic semester](https://github.com/susannalles/MinimalEditions/blob/master/README.md),
+while allowing us to care for our projects at less cost, and perhaps, just perhaps, to generate
+high-quality editions on github.io in large quantities based on the
+[git-lit](http://jonreeve.com/2015/09/introducing-git-lit/) model by Jonathan Reeve. We're coming
+for you, Kindle!
+
+
+## Sample Ed editions.
+
+- [Our sample site](http://minicomp.github.io/ed/) is the first edition built with Ed.
+- [Fugitive Verses](http://fugitiverses.viraltexts.org/): Popular Reprinted Poetry from Nineteenth Century Newspapers
+- [mini lazarillo](http://minilazarillo.github.io/): A minimal edition of the *Lazarillo de Tormes*
+- [Making and Knowing](https://cu-mkp.github.io/GR8975-edition/): The BnF Ms Fr 640 in Translation
+- [Daisy Miller: A Comedy in Three Acts](https://britaneeelizabeth.github.io/ed/texts/DaisyMillerPlay/)
+
+
+## Current Features
+
+- Templates for narrative, drama and poetry
+- Responsive design for mobile phones, tablets and PCs.
+- Relatively easy to learn and teach
+- Works well in high- or low- bandwidth scenarios
+- Easier for digital archives and libraries to preserve
+- Open source, open access
+- Unobtrusive footnotes
+- Metadata in Dublin Core and OpenGraph to play nice with Zotero, libraries and social media.
+- Automatic table of content generation
+- Simple search functionality
+- Annotations via [hypothes.is](https://hypothes.is/)
+- Optional: Ability to generate well-formatted bibliographies and linked citations
+
+
+## Installing and using Ed
+
+To learn how to install and begin using Ed, please visit our
+[documentation page](http://minicomp.github.io/ed/documentation).