Just in time mark-up for electronic editions

This paper describes a new paradigm for the creation and maintenance of electronic editions of works of historical literature that use the Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) to encode their markup. The Just In Time Markup (JITM) paradigm solves a number of common problems identified in the systems currently in use for creating electronic editions. The paper also shows how the nature of the JITM paradigm will reduce the significant workload involved in creating and authenticating an edition while allowing the edition to be a continually evolving research work for any number of scholars — even after publication.