ABSTRACT
It seems clear, as demonstrated by the developing theories of transcription and the analysis of the rising fortunes of documentary editions in digital form, that the pursuit of digital documentary editions, which allow for the representation of the source document to a level of detail unimaginable in print, opens up (or reopens) a series of theoretical issues. One of them is the necessity or possibility of separating the record of what is on the page from the interpretation that accompanies the availability of digital facsimiles, a discussion that is not born with digital, but has been amplified by it.
