ABSTRACT
This chapter provides readers with the essential steps to edit historical texts. Scholarly historical editions require specific tasks, and therefore specific skills for historians to guarantee the accuracy, completeness, and contextualization of historical texts. A digital documentary edition (DDE) is the recording of as many features of the original document as are considered meaningful by the editors, displayed in all the ways the editors consider useful for the readers, including all the tools necessary to achieve such a purpose. In order to locate texts, editors should be aware of the different repositories such as, for instance, the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) in the United States, or the National Inventory of Documentary Sources (NIDS) in the United Kingdom. Editors can also use the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and its WorldCat service, available at most academic libraries.
