Śivadharma Database CMS. HTML and graph as a starting point for digital editions

Sivadharma Database is a Content Management System (CMS) for creating, publishing, and updating Digital Scholarly Editions. By entering the textus constitutus first, scholars can annotate it via user-friendly tools to provide their editions with additional components, such as apparatus, notes, translation, parallels, and citations. The annotation system is based on HTML and graph data structure. The textus corresponds to an HTML file ready to be displayed. Textual fragments annotated in HTML are the atomic unit of multiple relationships organized in a graph database, allowing the formal representation of complex and overlapped textual phenomena. These methodological and practical approaches result in good annotation expressiveness and a minimum effort to learn technologies during the editing workflow by scholars.