Submission ID: 278 Research in the Digital Humanities increasingly demands tools that go beyond scholarly analysis to foster participation, public accessibility, and new forms of dialogue. The TIDO Viewer addresses this need as a generic, highly configurable open-source application for digital editions and text-centered research. By decoupling the presentation layer from underlying data storage, TIDO serves as an inclusive interface where students, cultural heritage communities, and the public can explore and co-construct understanding of historical texts. Developed as part of a modular infrastructure at the Göttingen State and University Library, TIDO leverages the TextAPI - a standardized, IIIF-inspired specification. This ensures that scholarly data remains interoperable and accessible across different institutional repositories. A defining feature of TIDO is its dynamic, panel-based workspace, which allows users to engage with multiple text versions (diplomatic, normalized, translations) and high-resolution manuscript images side-by-side. This design reflects the DARIAH mission of creating open and flexible platforms: instead of a fixed scholarly viewpoint, TIDO offers a hybrid space where users can selectively activate layered annotations ranging from critical apparatuses to semantic markup based on their specific interests and expertise. A key innovation presented is TIDO’s ability to visualize complex relational structures. When intertextual links, editorial alignments, or citations are exposed via the TextAPI (supported by backends like TextLPG), TIDO makes these connections operational. Users can interactively navigate across textual boundaries, enabling a form of "discovery" that is inherently collaborative and transcends the limitations of traditional print or siloed digital editions. To ensure long-term resilience and community adoption, TIDO is developed as an open-source React application. This allows other institutions to not only use the viewer but also to contribute to its development, fostering a collaborative ecosystem of shared Digital Humanities tools. By providing a transparent and extensible codebase, TIDO serves as a model for sustainable, community-driven research infrastructure. This contribution will be presented as a poster accompanied by a live demonstration, illustrating TIDO’s functionality, configurability, and integration within a standards-based ecosystem at the Göttingen State and University Library. The presentation aims to stimulate discussion on sustainable and socially responsive infrastructures for textual scholarship. It invites researchers, cultural heritage institutions, and the public to explore, use, and contribute to the ecosystem. We will show how the TIDO Viewer enables more interactive and inclusive engagement with textual heritage. By making complex textual structures accessible, TIDO supports collaboration and allows participants to explore and co-create knowledge from historical texts.
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