Challenge

Computational models of text in the digital humanities are strongly informed by the technological basis which practitioners in the field choose to process them. Such technological bases may be found in XML-based technologies employed for encoding, processing and delivering digital texts. They may be found in alternatives like the Resource Description Format (RDF), string-/range-based models or network/graph-oriented approaches. Which ever: each of these technological frameworks shape the way we construct and (in the end) conduct computations on digital texts. While the family of XML-related tools forms an ecosystem which does not only include an encoding standard but also offers a manifold of options for processing XML-encoded data (XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XProc etc.), alternatives often fall short of providing easy-to-use, practical solutions for the digital humanist when it comes to leveraging the advantages of such complementary approaches.

This particular bootcamp therefore sets a formidable challenge: can the contours of an alternative, domain specific language (DSL) for the flexible processing of texts (beyond the constraints of e.g. XML) be defined and the beginnings of a reference implementation be designed and constructed in mere days?

Interedition offers a limited number of bursaries to potential participants to support attending this bootcamp.

More information is in the full call for participation.

A short proceedings on the training school has been put to the wiki.

The focus of this bootcamp is on tools and practices related to “digital collaboration” in all its forms. Topics and problems that could be addressed are (but certainly have not be limited to):

* real time multi-user resource editing (like in Google Docs)
* division of tasks and labour in user groups
* exchange of data between different tools applied by users
* sharing copyright protected data between users
* how do users share data but keep it identifiable as their intellectual property?
* tools for collaborative research
* tools for crowdsourcing (e.g. for text transcription)
* tools, processes, and methods for collaborative development within the
Interedition community

The full call for participation is available at:

http://www.interedition.eu/wiki/index.php/Hamburg2012_CFP.

Bootcamp venue
Room 125 
Building ESA West
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146  Hamburg
(53.563152,9.987729)

Bootcamp start
Sunday July 15, 3PM CEST

Local Organizers
Marco Petris, Jan Christoph Meister

Programme Online | More Information

Huygens ING, The Hague, The Netherlands, 19-20 March 2012
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.

One of the key objectives of Interedition has been to produce a ‘roadmap’ conceptualizing the development of a technical infrastructure for collaborative digital preparation, editing, publication, analysis and visualization of literary research materials. Interedition has approached the problem of interoperable infrastructure from the perspectives of methodology, technology, and community. At present Interedition is realizing the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a bottom-up generalizable architecture, focusing on the development community and the prototyping of distributed lightweight services. This grassroots approach is emerging from the ‘engine rooms’ where Web 2.0 digital editions are being built and embodies a generalizable and viable approach to collaborative digital humanities tool building.

The symposium promises to give a good and comprehensive overview of current trends in practices of building digital editions, related digital tools and infrastructures, digital text analysis and annotation, and community aspects.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.