Versioning Machine
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The Versioning Machine is a software tool designed by a team of programmers, designers, and literary scholars for displaying and comparing multiple versions of texts. It is hosted by the University of Maryland Libraries. The display environment provides for features traditionally found in codex-based critical editions, such as annotation and introductory material, while taking advantage of opportunities of electronic publishing, such as providing a frame to compare diplomatic versions of witnesses side by side, allowing for manipulatable images of the witness to be viewed alongside the diplomatic edition, and providing users with an enhanced typology of notes. The Versioning Machine debuted at the 2002 ALLC/ACH (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing/Association for Computers and the Humanities) Conference in Tübingen, Germany, July 2002. Version 2.0 was released July 2003, Version 3.0 May 2006.