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This blog post summarises some key aspects of my DiXiT research and looks back at events and activities I organised or participated during the 12-month of my fellowship. The title of my DiXiT fellowship...
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...
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 And how can it advance our research into text and historical documents?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...
Hello everyone! I am Roman from Graz. After finishing my undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Graz, I completed a PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) at Trinity College Dublin. I am very excited...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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....
From 13 to 17 April 2015, just in time for my first anniversary as DiXiT fellow and for the arrival of the sunny days, the Spring School “Advanced XML/TEI technologies” took place at the...
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...
As 2014 draws to a close, it is time to recapitulate this year of digital scholarly editing on our DiXiT blog. I will concentrate exclusively on the German editing sphere, which on the one...
About six months ago when my DiXiT adventure has just started, I posted a short description about my project on this blog. Quite some time has passed since, at least it feels like a...
Life of a DiXiT fellow can be measured in various ways. The typical approach of the world is to count the days, months and years. What I count are the camps, workshops and conferences...
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...
