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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 And how can it advance our research into text and historical documents?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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
One of my DiXiT objectives are the improvements to the oXygen-TEI framework. Oxygen is a very popular XML editor that offers built-in support for TEI and the plan is to make this support even better....
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...
I’m now in Romania, at SyncRO, the company behind oXygen editor, headquarters doing reconnaissance for my upcoming secondment here. My thoughts today are nevertheless concentrated on following weeks as soon I’m going back to my...
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...
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...
XML/TEI for Digital Scholarly Editions: standards, tools and software 14th to19th September 2014, University of Graz, Austria. Yesterday, Georg and I opened applications for the second DiXiT camp, run by my hosting institution within...
