  The production of digital critical editions of texts using TEI is now a
widely-adopted procedure within digital humanities. The work described in this
paper extends this approach to the publication of gnomologia (anthologies of
wise sayings), which formed a widespread literary genre in many cultures of the
medieval Mediterranean. These texts are challenging because they were rarely
copied straightforwardly; rather, sayings were selected, reorganised, modified
or re-attributed between manuscripts, resulting in a highly interconnected
corpus for which a standard approach to digital publication is insufficient.
Focusing on Greek and Arabic collections, we address this challenge using
semantic web techniques to create an ecosystem of texts, relationships and
annotations, and consider a new model - organic, collaborative, interconnected,
and open-ended - of what constitutes an edition. This semantic web-based
approach allows scholars to add their own materials and annotations to the
network of information and to explore the conceptual networks that arise from
these interconnected sayings.
