In addition, the DMDE provides editorial notes to explain issues that transcend individual letters but have not been the subject of serious historical research and writing.
Readers can both browse and search the collection or pull up the complete set of annotations, called in this edition the "glossary."
The DMDE was created by Holly Cowan Shulman working in close collaboration with the Papers of James Madison and Rotunda.
Scholars who have cited the DMDE include historians such as Catherine Allgor,[7] David Lynn Holmes,[8] Annette Gordon-Reed,[9] Woody Holton,[10] Caroline Winterer,[11] and Douglas Houpt; and specialists in Digital Humanities such as Johanna Drucker [12] and Lauren F. Klein.
Popular historians who have used the edition include Cokie Roberts,[13] Elise K. Kirk, Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, and Jon Meacham.