Another Minimal Template for Digital Scholarly Editions (Under development)

Inspired by the previous project Ed. a jekyll theme for minimal edition, this repository will provide a lightweight, customizable Jekyll template for creating and publishing a minimal digital scholarly edition as an static websites. It is intended for teaching, prototyping, and developing sustainable digital editions using minimal computing principles, and it is still under development.

To view a demo (if hosted via GitHub Pages), visit:
https://susannalles.github.io/DSE_template/

• index.md – Homepage with a brief introduction to the edition
• edition/ – Folder where HTML resulting/ transformed encoded texts reside
• _layouts/ – HTML templates for rendering content pages
• _includes/ – Reusable site components (navigation, head, footer)
• assets/ – CSS (style.css) and JavaScript
• _config.yml – Site metadata and configuration
• XML/ – XML files.
• XSLT/- XSLT files.
• images/ - folder containing all images for the site.

• Clean and responsive layout for Homepage.
• Default pages with sidebar navigation.
• ...

1. Fork or clone this repository.
2. Replace or edit the contents of the edition/ folder.
3. Customize the homepage and layout as needed.
4. Commit your changes and enable GitHub Pages from the Settings > Pages section.
5. View your live site at https://your_username.github.io/DSE_template/

This template was developed by Susanna Allés-Torrent as part of pedagogical and scholarly work in digital textual scholarship (2025). It draws on principles of minimal computing and accessible design for sustainable web-based editions.