What is Interedition?

Interedition is an ESF COST Action; our aim is to promote the interoperability of the tools and methodology we use in the field of digital scholarly editing and research.

What does that mean?

There are a great many researchers out there in the field of textual scholarship. Some of you have written some amazing computer tools in the course of your research, and others of you could benefit greatly if these tools were openly available. The primary purpose of Interedition is to facilitate this contact—to encourage the creators of tools for textual scholarship to make their functionality available to others, and to promote communication between scholars so that we can raise awareness of innovative working methods.

A new and improved website

On 6 May, members of the Interedition Working Group 1 met in Dublin to discuss several issues to do with dissemination of the goals and progress of the action as a whole.  Among the topics discussed was the website, which had been allowed to become, quite frankly, stale.  There has been a lot of exciting progress lately, and almost none of it has been reflected on the website.  It’s time for this to change.

So here we present the new public face of Interedition.  General information is on the left; useful links about the project (including to the wiki) on the right.  More and better content will be added to the site over the next few days, and in the coming months we hope to host some interesting discussions here about the direction of textual scholarship, the role of technology therein, and the challenges we all face in the rapidly changing technological environment.  Stay tuned!