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diff --git a/exampleSite/content/about/index.md b/exampleSite/content/about/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b24daf --- /dev/null +++ b/exampleSite/content/about/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +--- +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). |