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Variants 9, the newest issue of Variants: the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, has been published. The volume, edited by Wout Dillen, Caroline Macé and Dirk Van Hulle, is is a special issue containing essays from the 2009 conference in Brussels on Texts Beyond Borders: Multilingualism and Textual Scholarship. The journal is free to members of the Society. To join, please visit www.textualscholarship.eu. Copies may also be purchased direct from Rodop. 
When: Friday, May 11, 2012, 9:00 a.m. to Sunday, May 13, 2012, 1:30 p.m. 
The workbench offers a range of tools and services for scholarly editing and linguistic research, which are extensible by open interfaces, such as editors for the linkage between texts or between text sequences and images, ... 
The National Library of Ireland is delighted to announce that as part of our ongoing catalogue development programme, coupled with a parallel initiative to put our collections online, that we are proceeding with Phase One of plans to provide the widest possible access to a number of James Joyce manuscripts. These plans will make the treasures of the National Library, which we hold in trust for the nation, available to all Irish citizens and lovers of Irish culture throughout the entire world. As of 10 April 2012, James Joyce manuscripts acquired by the NLI since 2000 can now be viewed via the NLI online catalogue. To access the catalogue clickhttp://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=&filter[]=digitised%3A%22Digitised%22&filter[]=authorStr%3A%22Joyce%2C+James%2C+1882-1941%22. 
... and juxtaposes them with related materials from Emory's Manuscript, ... to Emory professor Floyd Watkins and a manuscript draft of the commencement ... 
"Manuscripts Still Matter" conference at the British Library, 30 April 2012 Professor Jeffrey C. Robinson (University of Glasgow/University of Colorado) will give a paper on 'Discerning Wordsworth’s Late Poetics in the Manuscripts' in the Textual Scholarship Seminar, Institute of English Studies, University of London on 19 March, 5.30pm. Venue: Senate House, Rm 104. 
Papers on the digital humanities and online editing are also strongly encouraged. Professor Paul Salzman, La Trobe University, will be the keynote speaker. Professor Salzman is a Chief Investigator on The Material Cultures ... The European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) maintains a Group on Facebook as well as a JISC mailing list at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=textualscholarship.  Please join us for updates and informal discussions. 
Guest Editors: Christian Wittern, Syd Bauman, and Hugh Cayless Christian Wittern Editorial Introduction to the Second Issue [Full text] Marjorie Burghart and Malte Rehbein The Present and Future of the TEI Community for Manuscript Encoding [Full text] Cristina Vertan and Stefanie Reimers A TEI-based Application for Editing Manuscript Descriptions [Full text] Mohammed Ourabah Soualah and Mohamed Hassoun A TEI P5 Manuscript Description Adaptation for Cataloguing Digitized Arabic Manuscripts [Full text] Grant Leyton Simpson and Dot Porter Transforming Backward [Full text] HTML and HTML+RDFa to TEI Gerhard Budin, Heinrich Kabas, and Karlheinz Mörth Towards Finer Granularity in Metadata [Full text] Analysing the Contents of Digitised Periodicals Neven Jovanović CroALa [Full text] Enhancing a TEI-encoded Text Collection Sebastian Pape, Christof Schöch, and Lutz Wegner TEICHI and the Tools Paradox [Full text] Developing a Publishing Framework for Digital Editions 
Site de l'ITEM, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (CNRS)... |
Philology—the study of early texts, their meaning and how they have been passed down through the ages—has has traditionally consisted …Continue reading »... Occasion for this Short Essay: For first-year experience, Kent State University invites students to short session with professor during welcome weekend. The book for summer reading was This I Belie... 
"In dieser Edition werden Textkorpora zugänglich gemacht, die noch unediert bzw. als Handschrift schwer zugänglich sind. Die Edition ist in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Archiven entstanden, die sich bereit erklärt haben, ihre Bestände einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich zu machen. Die wissenschaftliche Bearbeitung erfolgte im Rahmen der Nachwuchsgruppe 'Berliner Intellektuelle 1800-1830'".
See also a related blog post: http://digitalintellectuals.hypotheses.org/368 
We all know that appropriate standards are required if electronic textual scholarship is to become precisely what it claims to be – scholarly. Enter the TEI, the various debates on its use, and the rest is history – we now have a ... One of the oft-repeated arguments in Digital Humanities is that there is a lot of data out there and not enough tools to disseminate the data. Counters to this argument have been that coders do not do enough dissemination themselves of their own work, i.e., we don’t promote what we do, documentation is often a joke, and what we make doesn’t connect to the data types or formats that scholars currently use. This is true for me: on the TILE project, there were numerous snags just in the before-mentioned items alone. 
RT @byzantinephil: Lectio: Laboratory for Critical Text Editing, Leuven, http://t.co/0rPKIqPi... 
It entertains some key reflections on the role of music editions and their digital future. The entire issue of Scholarly Editing is, in fact, quite good and freely available on the Web under a Creative Commons A-NC-SA 3.0 License ... Call for papers of the 9th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22-24 November 2012, hosted by Huygens-ING. Theme: "Editing Fundamentals: Historical and Literary Paradigms in Source Editing". Deadline for proposals 1 May 2012. 
Today, the late twentieth-century emergence of digital media has led to a massive-scale migration of our paper-based inheritance to digital forms, forcing a return to textual scholarship and its various problematics, as well as ... 
European Textual Scholarship, Textual Criticism, Textual Editing, Editorial Theory in an international persepctive...
Call for Contributions:
Variants: the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship is issuing an open call for contributions on the theory and practice of textual scholarship and scholarly editing from a comparative and/or European perspective for inclusion in Variants 10 (2012). Participants from the 2010 Conference in Pisa on “Texts Worth Editing” and the 2011/12 Conference in Bern on “Inter National and Inter Disciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing” are particularly encouraged to submit revised versions of their paper. Essays written in English of no more than 7000 words in length may be sent before the deadline (31 March 2012) to the Associate Editor at wim.van-mierlo[at]sas.ac.uk. Variants is a peer-reviewed publication. For more information about the journal and its stylesheet, please visit the Society’s website at www.textualscholarship.eu. |
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