TEI Beyond XML – Digital Scholarly Editions as Provenance Knowledge Graphs Andreas Kuczera University of Applied Sciences (THM) Gießen, Germany Abstract This paper proposes to detach TEI semantics – a widely accepted stand- ard for the description of textual phenomena – from its hierarchical XML framework in order to integrate its descriptive structures into a digital scholarly edition (DSE) of Hildegard von Bingen’s Liber epis- tolarum based on a knowledge graph enriched with provenance inform- ation. To which problem is digitization the solution? (Nassehi, 2019) 1 1 Introduction The search for origins is a quintessential human activity. Scholars in the hu- manities – especially historians – engage in this activity by examining cul- tural artefacts such as texts, objects, and images. In so doing, they make use Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). In: Tara Andrews, Franziska Diehr, Thomas Efer, Andreas Kuczera and Joris van Zun- dert (eds.): Graph Technologies in the Humanities - Proceedings 2020, published at http://ceur-ws.org This long paper is based on research presented at “Graph Technologies in the Humanities 2019” (January 18-19, Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, Germany). 1 Translation by the author 101