Digital Scholarly Editing and Textual Criticism

Pre-conference workshop of the DiXiT 3 / ESTS 2016 conference, organised by DiXiT, hosted by the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp.

Abstract

The production of digital critical editions is a crucial issue for anyone working on texts written in pre-modern times, philologists, historians, philosophers etc. Yet, there are many different practices, and concepts behind the digital representation of a critical apparatus are difficult to grasp. Besides, there are still very little tools supporting the creation and processing of digital critical editions.

The workshop includes talks and presentations by philologists and DH specialists introducing and discussing the very nature of critical editions as well as the digital representation of a critical apparatus. Furthermore, the state-of-the-art in terms of automatic collation tools and methods for processing and publishing digital critical editions will be assessed.

SCHEDULE/PROGRAMME

11.00 Welcome coffee, Opening

11.15-11.45 Caroline Macé – Jost Gippert: What type of (digital) scholarly edition for what type of textual tradition?
11.45-12.15 Armin Hoenen: Digital Stemmatological tools
12.15-12:35 Catherine Smith: Introducing the collation editor
12.35-13.15 Klaus Wachtel, Marcello Perathoner: Towards a global stemma of the Greek New Testament textual tradition: Methodological approach, technological issues and solutions

13.15 Lunch

14.15-14.45 Gioele Barabucci, Franz Fischer: CollateX and the formalization of textual Criticism – Bridging the gap between automated collation and edited critical texts
14.45-15.15 Marjorie Burghart, The TEI Critical Apparatus Toolbox: User-Empowerment with the TEI
15.15-15.45 Roberto Rosselli del Turco, tba

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16.00-16.30 Discussion