It has been quite a while since the last version of SADE – the TextGrid flavoured version of the »Scalable Architecture for Digital Editions« – was published. Here is a new version, with a new deployment strategy and a complete new architecture. Everything is new in 2018. Once this version of SADE was derived from a development that Alexander Czmiel (TELOTA at BBAW) promoted in »Editio ex machina - Digital Scholarly Editions out of the Box«.

Looking for platforms to start prototyping the Atom text editor or its superior platform Electron passed our way at the Research and Development Department recently. For feasibility studies we sometimes test new frameworks and when we can use web technologies to start coding, there is quite a good chance for a seamless connection between data structures, algorithms and the front end.