This is going to be a very short post, but I thought I’d go ahead and begin pondering the usefulness of transcribing Holt into a searchable online document.
Similar to the accessibility and the search-ability of my translations, we would finally have a digital edition of the Ormulum that we could use for text mining and other fun data analysis. Right now, you can find the 1878 edition freely available online (just Google it), but it’s either in a PDF or in the unhelpful digital format from the Internet Archive. The Archive of Early Middle English has the images for their digital edition of MS Junius 1 (yes!!), but it will take some time before they have edited and coded it. In the meantime, might it be useful to have even the flawed Holt and White version online somewhere?
Feel free to post your thoughts.
Muddling through the Medieval 
I don’t understand. Is not Holt and White at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/AFW5744.0001.001/1:7?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
Yes, absolutely. You’re correct, but I tend to forget it exists there because I’m equally unsatisfied with their format. It could certainly function in the way that my short post suggests, except that when searching for words with accents (though strangely the /ȝ/ isn’t a problem). The accents appear as a superscript em-dash, like this: “U¯¯t.” So, unless you know that it’s going to appear like that, when you search for “ut,” the word you’re looking for doesn’t show up. I don’t particularly believe the accents are necessary for reading, so I wouldn’t include them. In a sense, we need something we can scrub for something like GitHub easily, and this isn’t it. Also, it simply replicates the page format of the printed text, which I dislike as well. I guess I’m just being picky…