This paper presents two digitisation workflows and a new model proposition for the digital processing of unpublished texts by Elisa Chimenti (1883-1969). The author's corpus is extremely varied and interesting both from the point of view of academic research and for the wider public. The experiments therefore move in the area of open access digital scholarly edition. The aim is to compare the different text processing chains, in order to reflect on the pros and cons of each. Further, the new proposition aims to build a model for the digitisation of this corpus, also focusing on ethical and ecological issues that contemporary society confronts us with. The purpose is to contribute to the ongoing project of organising, preserving, and digitising the heritage of Elisa Chimenti, an extraordinary as well as forgotten author.