Single manuscript: a single physical document or a series of documents belonging together, like a multi volume manuscript or a series of notebooks.

Single work: a single work, e.g. Plato’s Laches, which might be transmitted in multiple manuscripts.

Collection of texts: several abstract texts across the documents of their transmission, e.g Aristotle’s Physics and Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics.

Collected works: a collection of several works of one or several authors, e.g. the works of Plato.

Papers: a collection of personal or family documents or personal papers.

Archival holding: the collection of a repository.

Charters: texts documenting a legal fact by using a special form supporting its validity, e.g. the Magna Carta.

Letters: letters of one or several authors.

Diary: one or several diaries of one or several authors.

Classics: before 500 CE.

Medieval: 501 CE until 1500 CE.

Early modern: 1501 CE until 1800 CE.

Modern: 1801 CE until today.

App: any application (for personal computer or mobile devices) apart from browsers with which the project can be accessed.

Mobile: a browser-version adapted for mobile devices.

PDF: the project or parts of as PDF files.

Structure: Select this if the project allows browsing by elements used to structure a text, e.g. chapters, sections, paragraphs, etc.

Documents: Select this if the project offers to browse by individual source objects, e.g. by the individual letters in a letter-edition, the individual charters in a charter-edition, etc.

Images: Select this if the project allows browsing by facsimile (e.g. through a gallery).

Facsimile edition: Focuses on the visual layer of texts with additional information for access and understanding; no transcription.

Archive edition: Focuses on the width of a work, the documents of its transmission, its context; aims at completeness.

Documentary edition: Related to the school of “documentary editing”, focuses on the documents rather than on abstract texts; tries to give truthful representations of the documents with (often: diplomatic) transcription and additional information.

Diplomatic edition: Focuses on the text (not the visual layer) of documents, tries to give a transcription as accurate as possible.

Genetic edition: Focuses on the genesis of texts, usually on the level of microgenesis (within a document) sometimes on the level of macrogenesis (across documents).

Work critical edition: Focuses on the (potentially: complete) work of an author, aims at completeness on the level of the abstract work (and what needs to be presented to accomplish this).

Text critical edition: Focuses on the construction of a “best text” or definitive reading by means of textual criticism.

Enriched edition: ’Enriched Edition’ describes digital representations of texts that put a particular emphasis on extracting information from the text, e.g. by elaborate indices, extensive comments and annotations on the content, linking of related information, or formal representation of content.

Database edition: Transforms text and documents into structured data to capture the semantic information.

Digital library: Provides a collection of scholarly material without the approach of critical engagement with single documents, texts, or works; or simple digital facsimiles; not a scholarly digital edition in the sense of the review criteria.

Collection of texts: Textual representations without critical commentary, the application of textual criticism or paratexts that describe, explain or contextualize the texts; not a scholarly digital edition in the sense of the review criteria.

Transmission examined: Attempt to establish the transmission of the text, the results of which are traditionally reflected in a Stemma Codicum.

Palaeographic annotations: Accounts of the palaeographic dimension of a text.

Normalization: The orthography has been normalised according to a chosen standard (e.g. ’seyn’ to ’sein’).

Variants: Accounts of textual variants, i.e. textual differences between documents transmitting the same text.

Emendation: Corrections or revisions have been applied to the text.

Commentary notes: Comments regarding any of the phenomena mentioned before or other textual phenomena (not regarding the content).

Facsimiles: Any copy of historical documents.

Diplomatic transcription: Transcription of the document taking account of features like spelling, punctuation, abbreviations, deletions, insertions, alterations, etc.

Edited text: A reading text as constituted by the editor(s), based on procedures like recensio, examinatio, emendatio, correction, normalization, modernization etc.

Translations: Any translations into languages different from that of the original text.

Commentaries: Scholarly commentary on the content of the documents.

Semantic data: Transformation of the text (e.g. an account book) into a database or representation of its content as RDF or the like.

DOI: Digital Object Identifier according to the definition of The International DOI Foundation. The DOIs should be resolvable through http://doi.org/.

ARK: Archival Resource Key according to the definition of the California Digital Library. An ARK URL contains the label: ‘ark’ after the URL’s hostname.

URN: Uniform Resource Name using the urn: scheme. URNs always start with the label ’urn:’.

PURL.ORG: Persistent Uniform Resource Locator using the PURL concept and administered by the Online Computer Library Centre.

Persistent URLs: Choose this if the project promises permanent URLs or uses a local resolving system between URLs and underlying technical addresses but does not use any of the external services mentioned in the options.

None: Choose this if no persistent identifiers and adressing system are used at all.

CC0: Creative Commons license CC0 applied.

CC-BY: Creative Commons license CC-BY applied.

CC-BY-ND: Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND applied.

CC-BY-NC: Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC applied.

CC-BY-SA: Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA applied.

CC-BY-NC-ND: Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND applied.

CC-BY-NC-SA: Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-SA applied.

PDM: Work is in the Public Domain.