SADE tries to meet the requirement for an easy to use publication system for electronic resources and Digital Editions. It is an attempt to provide a modular concept for publishing scholarly editions in a digital medium, based on open standards.
help support a visual editing paradigm that provides computational support for editing cultural heritage documents while requiring minimal formalization early in the research process. Kiernan (2007) is careful to distinguish between image-based scholarly editions and ‘plain old facsimiles’