Interedition

Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure

The Huygens ING, The Hague, The Netherlands, 19-20 March 2012
Interedition is organizing a symposium as a last event in the series funded through a COST Action. The symposium will be held in conjunction to a bootcamp and Management Committee meeting, from 19-20 March 2011. Venue is the Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands (Huygens ING, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) The Hague, The Netherlands.
Huygens ING is pleased to host a symposium to mark the achievements of Interedition, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action IS0704. This event will also serve as a springboard for further work based on the principles of interoperability promoted by Interedition within the domain of digital scholarly editing and research.

The Full Call is available on the Interedition wiki: http://www.interedition.eu/wiki/index.php/TheHague032012_CFP

Text Analysis

Interedition has the pleasure of hosting its 9th bootcamp at Leuven Catholic University, from Januray 11 – 14, 2012. The work of previous bootcamps have focused on collation, transcription, and annotation of texts; the goal of this bootcamp is to encourage the development of prototypes for text analysis. One of the most exciting directions of digital text edition lies in the question of the innovative lines of research that might be taken when all the textual data is digitized, annotated, collated, and checked. Examples include:

• Discourse analysis
• Linked data
• Stemmatology
• Stylistics

The bootcamp and think tank are organized through the kind efforts of:

• Caroline Macé (KU Leuven)
• Tara Andrews (KU Leuven)

The full call for participation is available at:

http://www.interedition.eu/wiki/index.php/Leuven2012_CFP.

On 28 and 29 November a large contingent of Interedition members joined the workshop Tools for Digital Scholarly Editions – Building the Community of Digital Humanities Software Developers organized by the Cologne based Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik. The outcome was a set of intended actions to further the abilities of the seeded digital humanities open source development community to collaborate and to exchange knowledge, practice and tools. More information will be flowing to the wiki (http://www.interedition.eu/wiki), see also: http://www.i-d-e.de/events-des-ide/workshop-2011.

#teifuture #an_interoperability_perspective

Hubland Campus, Wuerzburg University, Building Z6 (look for the sign post inside), 13.30-15.30.

Recently we witnessed an engaged debate over twitter and the TEI-list focusing on interoperability as a future avenue for furthering the goals of TEI. The ESF COST Action IS0704 ‘Interedition’, specifically focused on interoperable tools for textual scholarship, is organizing a half day Think Tank on this subject during the upcoming TEI-meeting at the Universität Würzburg. We’ve found Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford University Computing Services) and Doug Reside (New York Public Library), and Wendell Piez (Mulberry Technologies R&D) prepared to fire off the discussion with key pitches. Wendell will be chairing the Think Tank.

Bursaries

Interedition is delighted to offer several bursaries for attending this Think Tank on 12 October 2011 that is coinciding and co-organized with the 2011 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium: “Philology in the Digital Age” held at Würzburg University, 10-16 October 2011.

For the full call and application information see:

http://www.interedition.eu/wiki/index.php/WürzburgTEI102011_CFP

Transcription & Annotation

Interedition is inviting all interested to participate in the upcoming Development Bootcamp, which will take place from 7 October to 11 October 2011 at the Universität Würzburg, coinciding with the start of the TEI-meeting (http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/tei_mm_2011/) which also takes place there. We hope thus to offer a good occasion for members of both groups to confer on the subject of interoperability. As special Think Tank for this is foreseen on 12 October, for which seperate bursaried may be acquired.

The bootcamp and think tank are organized through the kind efforts of:

• Fotis Jannidis (Universität Würzburg)
• Malte Rehbein (Universität Würzburg)
• Gregor Middell (Universität Würzburg)
• Susan Schrebman (Trinity College Dublin)

Objectives

Interedition’s working group 3 has identified transcription and annotation of physical textual sources one of the pivotal scholarly tasks involved with creating digital editions. At the 2010 München bootcamp more than 18 transcription & annotation related projects were identified. Non of these is adhereing to any machine to machine protocol or format for interchange. Interedition wants to inspire an open source development movement around this problem of interoperabilty and invites anyone who can make a hands on contribution to a prototype distributed reference implementation of an interoperable model for text.

The full call for participation is available at:

http://www.interedition.eu/wiki/index.php/Würzburg102011_CFP.

CLIR has just published an interesting report: Rome Wasn’t Digitized in a Day: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classics This report examines the use of digital technologies in classical studies, focusing on classical Greece, Rome, and the ancient Middle and Near East. The report was written by Alison Babeu, digital librarian and research coordinator for the Perseus Project. Babeu explores recent projects in the digital classics and how these projects are used. She also examines the infrastructure that supports digital classics and investigates larger humanities cyberinfrastructure projects and tools or services that might be repurposed for the digital classics.

You can view this open access publication at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub150abst.html

Dates: Wed 24 – Thur 25 August 2011

Venue: OUCS, Oxford (UK)

Local organizer: James Cummings (OUCS)
Working Group 2 of Interedition is the ‘Work Horse’ of the project where tools and interoperability models are thought up and actually built in proof of concept. This meeting provides some key developers and architects within Interedtion to come up with shared models for various themes in digital humanities. Many key EU and non-EU textual scholarship projects and knowledge are reprsented around the table (a.o. TextGrid, CLARIN-NL, Juxta, TEI, Huygens, Studia Stemmatologia, eLaborate, etc.). Most of all we’re interested to see if there is scope for sharing/founding common models with the US based digital humanities infrastructure Project BAMBOO, for which a representative is joining us. Further details are here.

The Digital Humanities Observatory and Trinity College Dublin are delighted to announce a five day summer school, ‘From Metadata to Linked Data’, a joint Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) COST (Interedition) training school. Through the generosity of the IRCHSS and COST, there is no registration fee. The organisers encourage applications from a variety of subject areas: especially the various disciplines of the humanities, computer science, and the digital humanities.

The Summer School will feature seminars in the morning and hands-on workshops in the afternoon by scholars in the field including Tobias Blanke (Kings College London), Owen Conlan (Trinity College Dublin), Shawn Day (Digital Humanities Observatory), Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin), Séamus Lawless (Trinity College Dublin), Geoffrey Rockwell (U of Alberta), Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory), and Joris van Zundert (Huygens Instituut).

The week will be dedicated to exploring the theories, methods, and tools to create a technology-enabled, distant approach to reading. Distant reading, a term coined by the Stanford-based literary critic, Franco Moretti, relies on computational methods to generate abstract models to ‘read’ large textual corpora. In his 2006 article entitled ‘What do you do with a Million Books’, Greg Crane gave the digital humanities community a shorthand for reading in the modern age. His article points toward a number of exciting possibilities for a paradigm shift in humanities scholarship but realizing this ambition has proven more difficult than theorizing it.

This summer school will bring together a group of interdisciplinary experts to explore solutions to distant reading. The methods to be explored offer the potential to interconnect the knowledge embedded in cultural heritage materials by relating people, places and events across documents and collections so researchers can interrogate them. This technology offers unprecedented power to investigate textual material to begin to realize the vision of distant reading. Attendees must bring a laptop for afternoon exercises.

For more information on the curriculum please see also http://dho.ie/summerschool2011

This summer school is being offered in conjunction with the DARIAH network