Digital scholarship

This issue of “Textual Cultures” publishes some of the papers presented at the 5th meeting of the Filologia Digitale series started by Adele Cipolla at the Università di Verona just over a year ago (15-16 June 2018). The meeting was devoted to Edizioni e testi “born digital”: problemi di metodo e prospettive di lavoro (Born-digital editions and texts: theories, working approaches and methods), and the various stages of its organization could count on the precious help of Anna Maria Babbi and her PhD students. Both Verona and Pisa have been at the forefront in the application of Digital Humanities to philology and textual criticism, especially of Medieval texts: for example, the latter designed and built the tool Dante Sources, voted best tool at the DH awards 2015.
Inviting some of the most prominent experts in digital scholarly editions of various fields of Medieval studies (Mid-Latin, Romance, Germanic and Italian philologies), the colloquium aimed to outline the main methodological solutions shared by recent editions developed and based entirely on the web, with related philological and conservation issues posed by more recent “born digital” literature and its online circuit of publishing, reading, scholarly and/or teaching applications. Such aspects have long attracted due scholarly attention in the English-speaking world, in terms of both editorial theory and applied technology, but still need to be addressed comprehensively in the field of Italian textual scholarship, as may be also seen by the limited space usually allocated to these issues in university textbooks.

Convegno internazionale promosso dalla Université de Liège
Place du XX Août, 7 4000 Liège - Belgio
Comitato organizzatore
J.-L. FOURNEL (Université Paris 8)
C. GIGANTE (Université libre de Bruxelles)
P. MORENO (Université de Liège)
H. MIESSE (Université de Liège)