DiXiT Convention 2 – “Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society”
Opening words “So, what is the use of your edition? And who actually uses it?” When you ask such questions to scholarly editors, chances are you see them flinch a little, before they set...
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On ‘hacking’ ethos, hackathons and digital scholarship
Have you ever experienced, after a concert, a movie or an event, to become somehow obsessed with the person or the topic? This happened to me last month, after joining the ‘Hack the Book’...
Become an ER in Graz!
Since today the applications for the ER position at the Centre for Information Modeling – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz (Austria) are open. We are looking forward to receive...
oXygen frameworks part 2: add-ons
In previous installment we have created an extension of TEI framework to pack TEI CE Toolbox into it. The next step is to pack it nicely and disseminate. The most convenient way, both for framework...
oXygen frameworks part 1: extend or modify?
A chance meeting at the Conventus Vindobonensis* last week reminded me of the TEI CE Toolbox framework I prepared last autumn during my visit at SyncRo headquarters in Romania. As I headed for Craiova...
Unter den Linden
It has been a while since my autumn visit in Craiova. June is a very different experience – with the sun, the heat and the heady smell of TEI* trees and honeysuckle permeating the...
..working on the launch of Fonte Gaia blog
We want to tell you about a beautiful thing that is going on at the University of Grenoble. Elena Pierazzo, Claire Mouraby, Anna Ingoglia and Filippo Fonio, with the collaborations of international scholars, are...
Christophe Guéret: Stop making tools! An afternoon at the E-Humanities Group.
[ Note: A group of DiXiT fellows may develop some of the ideas presented here during the next DiXiT Convention … but this is still to come! ] The E-Humanities Group is an initiative of the KNAW (Royal...
Secondment Update – ESR8 DiXiT Fellow at Cambridge University Library
NB: As in my previous post about my DiXiT Research Secondment, for ethical reasons I am not using the names of people I work with in Cambridge University Library in case I use excerpts...
EEBO Hackfest and One Markup Geek in the Corner
On March 9th, to celebrate the release of over 25,000 texts from the Early English Books on-line project into the public domain, the Bodleian libraries hosted a one-day Hackfest at the Weston Library to...
TCP
The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) creates standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early printed books. This work, and the resulting text files, are jointly funded and owned by more than 150 libraries...
Seeking the SIMPLicity…
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has developed over 20 years into a key technology in text-centric humanities disciplines. It has been able to achieve its range of use by adopting a descriptive rather than...
XML/TEI for Digital Scholarly Editions: Report on DiXiT Camp 2
Camp 2 Participants. “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.” – Geoffrey Chaucer As of October 1st, the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training (DiXiT) Network is officially six months old. Writing this...
Publication infrastructure survey
The requirements study for a publication architecture targeting multiple media is one of my research priorities for the DiXiT Network. My task in this regard is to create an index of tools for all stages of...
Firing the Kiln
Last week I’ve started my secondment at King’s College London under the supervision of dr Elena Pierazzo. My work there is to learn as much as I can from the fabulous team of researchers...
