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...
Category: Reports
Report: Historical Source Edition 2.0 conference
Earlier this month, I traveled to Warsaw to attend the Historical Source Edition 2.0 conference (6-7 October) organised by Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History; the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center; and the University of...
ESR 11 – Reeling in the years 2014-2017
The dust has finally settled on what has been a whirlwind few years as part of our now beloved DiXiT network and it’s time to reflect on the whole process and report some of...
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...
ESR1: DiXiT Experience
So. Farewell, then, DiXiT. The only research Network named After a board-game. Which is good because “Monopoly” and “Settlers of Catan” Don’t sound like Research networks To me. — Richard Hadden, 33⅓ (after E.J....
The Educational and Social Impact of Digital Scholarly Editions
Post by Anna-Maria Sichani and Elena Spadini The Workshop The Educational and Social Impact of Digital Scholarly Editions was held in Rome on the 24th of January 2017, in combination with the AIUCD (Italian...
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...
ESTS / DiXiT 2016 Report
NB: This is a report on the final convention in the core DiXiT programme, held before and jointly with the 2016 meeting of the European Society for Textual Scholarship and directly after a two-day...
Antwerp ESTS/DiXiT Conference Report – October 2016
This is a report about the final convention in the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network, which co-hosted the annual European Society of Textual Scholarship (ESTS) conference in Antwerp, from 1-8 October 2016. (All...
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 And how can it advance our research into text and historical documents?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...
Report: Complexities of Project Logistics Workshop
One of the three pre-conference workshops leading up to the ESTS 2016 / DiXiT 3 conference held in Antwerp at the beginning of October was organised by DiXiT and focussed on complexities of project logistics. ...
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...
Net 7 workshop: semantic web in practice
By Federico Caria and Elena Spadini DiXiT Convention 1 was held at Huygens ING from the 16th to the 18th of September 2015. Before the Convention, two workshops took place in parallel: one devoted to “TEI...
Modeling the digital scholarly edition beyond TEI, pt.2
Report of the workshop “TEI and neighboring standards,” with presentations from Stefanie Gehrke, Øyvind Eide and Peter Boot at the first DiXiT convention, 15th September 2015, Huygens ING. By Merisa Martinez and Frederike Neuber....
Modeling the digital scholarly edition beyond TEI, pt.1
Report of the workshop “TEI and neighboring standards,” with presentations from Stefanie Gehrke, Øyvind Eide and Peter Boot at the first DiXiT convention, 15th September 2015, Huygens ING. By Merisa Martinez and Frederike Neuber....
