EsR 10 – DiXiT, after all
How it all began. In the warm Greek spring days of 2014 I clearly remember myself reading with a mixed feeling of admiration and jealousy (with a good reason) about a new scholarly training...
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This is it, amigos
Time flies by. The last three years of my life are gone. DiXiT sometimes imposed such a frenetic rhythm of activity. Months filled with conventions, training Camps, workshops, conferences…so many hours spent on the...
A Tale of DiXiT
DiXiT Recalled. It was the best of times (although occasionally it got worse), it was the age of wisdom (although I sure felt foolish sometimes), it was the epoch of belief (even if at...
EsR12, 2014-2017
My DiXiT experience started in July 2014. During three years, I conducted user studies to analyze the use of digital editions with a variety of expert users. The original DiXit call was complex, asking for prospectives...
Inclusive Design and Dissemination of Digital Scholarly Editions: A Survey
This is not an “end of DiXiT” blogpost. For my version of that, see this link. Rather, this is a request for help. Over the summer, myself and four other DiXiT fellows (Elli Bleeker,...
ER1 – Reminiscing on a Year of DiXiT
So apparently it’s October 2017 already. DiXiT has officially ended a month ago, and it’s been six since the end of my fellowship. How did this happen? Is DiXiT really over? Thankfully, re-reading my...
DiXiT time flew by in a blink of an eye.
In Maynooth, on the 5th February 2016 my DiXiT fellowship ended and the 7th, a Monday I started my new job as librarian in the Economics library of Ca’ Foscari. I officially said “Goodbye”...
Scholarly editing around Europe
Farewell from DiXiT by ESR 6 As the DiXiT period comes to an end … it is not easy, but at least pleasant because of the good memories, to sum it up. DiXiT started...
DiXiT ESR 7: But I Specifically Requested a Late Checkout!
Three and a half years ago, I got an e-mail forward from Professor Lewis Ulman with the subject line “Have you seen this?” and a link to a rather unique Call for Applications. I...
On TEI-Publisher (by the user)
A previous post on this blog by Magdalena Turska explained the development of the TEI Simple Processing Model. A Toolbox is now available, that integrates the Processing Model and allow for “instant publishing” of...
An ‘Open Access in action’ experience
This year’s International Open Access Week theme was “Open in Action”. The week (October 24 – 30, 2016) held a plethora of events, talks and other initiatives that presented, discussed and challenged various aspects...
Report: Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces Symposium
The symposium Digital Scholarly Editions and Interfaces took place on 23 and 24 September 2016 at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz. The conference was organized by the Center for Information Modelling and DiXiT. The...
Code and Collation: training textual scholars
Post by Elli Bleeker and Elena Spadini What is collation? What is automated text collation? And how can it advance our research into text and historical documents? These and other questions were at the...
Wout Dillen – Digital Scholarly Editing and Memory Institutions
Hejhej! My name is Wout Dillen, I’m from Antwerp (Belgium), and I’m happy to have become part of the DiXiT network at the start of last month! Almost entering its final year, DiXiT has...
