A New Implementation for Canonical Text Services

This paper introduces a new implementation of the Canonical Text Services (CTS) protocol intended to be capable of handling thousands of editions. CTS was introduced for the Digital Humanities and is based on a hierarchical structuring of texts down to the level of individual words mirroring traditional practices of citing. The paper gives an overview of CTS for those that are unfamiliar and establishes its place in the Digital Humanities research. Some existing CTS implementations are discussed and it is explained why there is a need for one that is able to scale to much larger text collections. Evaluations are given that can be used to illustrate the performance of the new implementation.