Digital Edition

Elenco dei personaggi citati nei dispacci di Bernardo Navagero

by Daniele Santarelli

LINK: http://www.storiadivenezia.net/sito/testi/Navagero3.pdf

Bernardo Navagero, Dispacci al Senato dall'8 novembre 1557 al 19 marzo 1558 e dispacci ai Capi dei Dieci dal 4 ottobre 1555 al 13 marzo 1558

by Daniele Santarelli

LINK: http://www.storiadivenezia.net/sito/testi/Navagero.pdf

Bernardo Navagero, Dispacci al Senato dal 7 settembre 1555 al 6 novembre 1557

by Daniele Santarelli

LINK: http://www.storiadivenezia.net/sito/testi/Navagero2.pdf

Documents about the papacy of Paul IV and his relationships with Venice

by Daniele Santarelli

LINK: http://www.storiadivenezia.net/sito/testi/Documenti.pdf

Dispacci dei nunzi Filippo Archinto (1555–1556) e Antonio Trivulzio (1556-1557)

by Daniele Santarelli

LINK: http://www.storiadivenezia.net/sito/testi/Nunziatura.pdf

Sebastian Brants »Narrenschiff«. Kritische Würdigung vorliegender Editionen und prinzipielle Überlegungen zu einer Neu-Edition

by Annika Rockenberger

Published in 'editio. International Yearbook of Scholarly Editing', 2011

It has been postulated that by continuous critical discussion of present scholarly editions a suitable standardisation... more It has been postulated that by continuous critical discussion of present scholarly editions a suitable standardisation of editorial practices and methods may be encouraged, and thereby may contribute – in the longer term – to synergy effects between present and prospective scholarly editions of comparable subjects, aims and purposes. – This article puts said postulate into practice, first by discussing several important (scholarly) editions of the German vernacular work Ship of Fools (Narrenschiff) by Sebastian Brant, from the 1850s to the present, as a paradigmatic case of textual tradition exclusively as hand printed matter. Secondly, certain considerations on the attempt to re-edit the Ship of Fools are made, which also aim at the inclusion of digital facsimiles as well as digital text presentations.

TEICHI and the Tools Paradox Developing a Publishing Framework for Digital Editions

by Christof Schöch

Sebastian Pape, Christof Schöch, and Lutz Wegner, « TEICHI and the Tools Paradox », Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative [Online], Issue 2 | February 2012, Online since 03 February 2012, connection on 04 February 2012. URL : http://jtei.revues.org/432 ; DOI : 10.4000/jtei.432

This paper presents a newly developed framework for online publishing of scholarly text editions based on the TEI... more This paper presents a newly developed framework for online publishing of scholarly text editions based on the TEI Guidelines. At the core of our publishing framework is support for delivery of TEI-encoded documents in Drupal, a popular, fairly powerful, and modular content management system (CMS). In this article we present the TEICHI suite of modules for Drupal that we developed, as well as a prototype implementation. TEICHI consists of a collection of modules for displaying TEI files online (via XSLT and CSS), interacting with them (via JavaScript), as well as uploading, searching, and downloading them. To showcase the particular strengths and possible use cases of our framework, we compare our tool to other currently available systems. Here, we focus on those tools which are suitable for textual scholars new to Digital Humanities and the TEI who would like to use the powerful encoding mechanisms provided by the TEI but have relatively little technical expertise. Therefore, we compare the TEICHI framework specifically to the Versioning Machine (VM) and the Scalable Architecture for Digital Editions (SADE). We look at these tools from four perspectives: that of the user interacting with the digital edition or archive, of the editor encoding and publishing texts, of the administrator setting up the publishing tool, and of the programmer possibly modifying or enhancing the tool. Our more general aim here is to investigate, from the perspective of tool development in the area of online delivery of TEI-encoded documents, what could be called the “tools paradox”: there is evidence for textual scholars’ need of such tools, and a number of them are available; however, the existing tools are not widely adopted by scholars. Our findings suggest that tool development has to address two aims which seem to be mutually exclusive, that of “keeping it simple” and that of “going generic”. In fact, we suggest that tool developers need to find ways of turning these conflicting aims into concurrent aims if they want to build successful tools and broaden their user base.

Towards a digital model to edit the different paratextuality levels within a textual tradition

by Paolo Monella

Paper published in an electronic research journal.

In the textual tradition of a literary work, our sources (manuscripts, printed books etc.) commonly bear, together... more In the textual tradition of a literary work, our sources (manuscripts, printed books etc.) commonly bear, together with the "main text", different kinds of "paratexts" commenting on it (including interlinear annotations, glosses, scholia, footnotes, modern scholarly introductions and commentaries, and many others). This article proposes a unified model for a document-based digital critical edition including both the main texts and the paratexts as they appear in different single sources. The problematic aspects of such an "enlarged" digital edition are discussed, including the relations between the different paratexts and the main text they refer to within each single textual source, as well as the "alignment" of different main texts and paratexts in different sources.

The Edition and the Research Library: Challenges to a Long Standing Partnership in the Digital Age [Edition und Forschungsbibliothek – Chancen und Herausforderungen einer traditionsreichen Partnerschaft im digitalen Zeitalter]

by Malte Rehbein

Co-authored with Elmar Mittler

The symbiotic relationship between libraries and editors has a long standing tradition which has become seemingly... more The symbiotic relationship between libraries and editors has a long standing tradition which has become seemingly fallen from view. But today offers new possibilities for this symbiosis. This volume of Bibliothek und Wissenschaft takes a thorough look from different perspectives at the interplay between editions and research libraries which is currently shaped in and by the digital age. This chapter provides an introduction to this subject.
Starting with an overview of the historical development of the scholarly edition – ranging from the foundation of the Museion in Alexandria, to the Institutiones of Cassiodor, to humanism and the era of printing up to the different editorial methods and schools of modernism and postmodernism – this introductory chapter discusses chances and challenges for both, editors and libraries in the digital age. If editorial work changes its focus from product to process, problems like citation or securing long term archiving need to be addressed. User guidance in digital media – unlike in printing – cannot rely on established methods (yet). Approaches concerning digital editions to move on from experimental individual solutions towards standardized procedures may be recognizable. But in all areas: production, publication as well as (long-term) accessibility, further research and development is needed. It is hence essential to further promote the dialog between editors and librarians.

La representación digital de la génesis del texto. Un caso de estudio

by Domenico Fiormonte

D. Fiormonte – V. Martiradonna, “La representación digital de la génesis del texto. Un caso de estudio”, in Aurélie Arcocha-Scarcia, Javier Lluch-Prats y Mari Jose Olaziregui (eds.), En el taller del escritor: génesis textual
y edición de textos, Bilbao, Servicio Editorial del País Vasco, pp. 147-176.

Teaching Manuscripts in the 'Digital Age'

by Peter Stokes

Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II, ed. Fischer et al. (Norderstedt, 2011), 229–45. http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/4352/

This chapter reflects on the author’s practical experience teaching palaeography in several different contexts at the... more This chapter reflects on the author’s practical experience teaching palaeography in several different contexts at the start of the so-called “digital age”. Material for manuscript-studies is becoming available at an enormous rate: perhaps most obvious are the results of the large-scale digitisation programmes which are making high-quality colour facsimiles of manuscripts available online to wide audiences. At the same time, Virtual Learning Environments provide new possibilities for teaching and learning, and many tools for research on manuscripts can also be used for teaching. Perhaps more fundamentally, however, it has often been noted that scholarship is changing as a result of digital tools, resources, and methods. What, then, of teaching? Should the teaching of manuscript studies also change along with the scholarly discipline, bringing the Digital Humanities into our classes on palaeography and codicology? To begin answering this question, and to suggest some pedagogical possibilities brought about by technology, the author’s own experiences are discussed. Some limitations of technology for teaching are then considered, and some general remarks are then provided on the relationship between palaeography and Digital Humanities, two fields which are both fighting for recognition as full academic disciplines and not “mere” Hilfswissenschaften.

A Framework for TEI-Based Scholarly Text Editions

by Christof Schöch

Grundsätzliche Überlegungen rund um ein künftiges mediävistisches Text-Portal.

by Helmut W. Klug

Die Sammlung aller bereits edierten Texte in allen vorliegenden Editionen zu einer bestimmten Epoche, wie es zum... more Die Sammlung aller bereits edierten Texte in allen vorliegenden Editionen zu einer bestimmten Epoche, wie es zum Beispiel im Corpus of Old English realisiert ist,  ist ein großer Wunschtraum vieler Wissenschaftler. Technisch wäre ein derartiges Projekt nicht allzu schwer zu realisieren, aber es sind vor allem die Wissenschaftler selbst, die Produktionsbedingungen am wissenschaftlichen Buchmarkt und die Situation der Geisteswissenschaften im Allgemeinen, die Derartiges nahezu unmöglich machen. Der vorliegende Aufsatz versucht die beschriebene Situation zu evaluieren und skizziert mögliche Lösungsvorschläge.

External Features of Historical Documents In the Computer Supported Editing

by Gunter Vasold

In: Congresso internacional sobre sistemas des información história. Ponencias y mesas redondas, 1998, 173 – 177.

New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications

by Domenico Fiormonte

Draft of the volume: New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications (eds. byi Domenico Fiormonte and Jonathan Usher), Oxford: University of Oxford Humanities Computing Unit, 2001.

Il testo digitale: traduzione, codifica, modelli culturali

by Domenico Fiormonte

Published in in P. R. Piras, A. Alessandro, D. Fiormonte (a cura di), Italianisti in Spagna, ispanisti in Italia: la traduzione. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Roma, 30 - 31 ottobre 2007), Roma, Edizioni Q, pp. 271-284

This paper is an attempt to apply cultural semiotics to the realm of digital textuality. The first part defines what... more This paper is an attempt to apply cultural semiotics to the realm of digital textuality. The first part defines what digital humanities are, and the interconnections between the translation activity and the work of the digital text encoder. The second part provides examples of how markup languages, i.e. XML-TEI, by adding semiotic layers to a document,  can both represent and manipulate the original source. In conclusion, digital encoding can be seen as a complex semiotic act that can have profound effects on the identity of our cultural artifacts.

Multi-Version Documents: a Digitisation Solution for Textual Cultural Heritage Artefacts

by Domenico Fiormonte

Desmond Schmidt and Domenico Fiormonte, "Multi-Version Documents: a Digitisation Solution for Textual Cultural Heritage Artefacts", Intelligenza Artificiale, IV, 1, pp. 56-61.

Textual cultural heritage artefacts present two serious
problems for the encoder: how to record different or... more Textual cultural heritage artefacts present two serious
problems for the encoder: how to record different or revised
versions of the same work, and how to encode conflicting
perspectives of the text using markup. Both are
forms of textual variation, and can be accurately recorded
using a multi-version document, based on a minimally redundant
directed graph that cleanly separates variation
from content.

Digital Encoding as a Hermeneutic and Semiotic Act: The Case of Valerio Magrelli

by Domenico Fiormonte

Co-auhtored with V. Martiradonna and D. Schmidt

In this article we propose different methods of encoding, according to the TEI Guidelines, three different cases of... more In this article we propose different methods of encoding, according to the TEI Guidelines, three different cases of genetic or compositional textual variants found in the autographs of the Italian contemporary poet Valerio Magrelli. These encoding experiments reflect the diverse nature of the artifacts and represent a critical assessment of the effectiveness of present encoding practices for the multidimensional and pragmatic aspects of authorial drafts. Thus far, it seems that the TEI has yet to offer a convincing theoretical model and adequate practical solutions for representing the complex temporal structures normally present in manuscripts, and in fluid textual traditions in general. Our conclusion is that there is a potential conflict between the linear and hierchical nature of current formal language systems such as XML, and the intrinsic dynamic nature of the writing process. In such cases we may have to rethink present models of document modeling, and to develop, within an adequate epistemological framework, a new theory of digital text.

El humanista digital. Propuestas para el siglo XXI

by Domenico Fiormonte

Draft only

This is a short excerptum from a talk given last summer in San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain): more This is a short excerptum from a talk given last summer in San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spain): http://www.ucm.es/info/cv/subweb/prog/programas/71110.html

Coming soon: Filme annotieren: Das Sprengen des Rahmens der Einstellung oder Fußnoten zum Film und seiner Wissenschaft

by Natascha Drubek

In: B. Metz, S. Zubarik (Hg.): Den Rahmen sprengen. Anmerkungspraktiken in Literatur, Kunst und Film, Berlin (spring 2011)

http://ssl.einsnull.com/paymate/search.php?vid=5&aid=2982

"Footnoting Film."

- how to write on film in the digital age

- how to present... more "Footnoting Film."

- how to write on film in the digital age

- how to present audiovisual works in digital editions

- discussion of hypertextual annotation (www.hyperkino.net)