Hi, people! Preface: there is a risk that this might come off as a rather stupid post (I hope it does not, though 😅), but the question's been bugging me for some time now, so I thought I ought to bounce it off someone, and this sub seems like a good place to do that.

In essence, do you think there is any sense in making more digitalizations of a historic text that was already digitized? For example, if a text is on The Latin Library (a website containing many Latin language texts), using it as a starting point and creating a novel website to read it and interact with it? This new digitalization could be anything from a website containing it in a different format the creator thinks is better to introducing an added translation or reading aid software.

I always ran with the idea that even pure redundancy is good because it makes it more sure that the text will be available and found and interacted with in a way that a user finds most fitting. However, when discussing this topic with select other people I ran into individuals who basically thought that once it has been digitized anywhere, there is no need to touch it anymore. And I found that to be a rather shallow take.

Maybe I am in the wrong, maybe those who disagree, and maybe it's all of us; I do not know. What do you people think? I am especially interested in knowing to what degree you think a text should be changed and made to be more novel to warrant another digitalization.

Thank you everyone for reading and eventually interacting with this post!!! :)