Author: Tessa Gengnagel

ESR fellowship at Huygens ING open for application

Tessa Gengnagel

The ESR 10 fellowship on long-term business models in dissemination and publishing is now open for application until 20 February 2015. For details please see the announcement at Huygens ING and the DiXiT application check list.

The researcher will investigate the competing demands faced by digital scholarly editions: on the one hand the need for financial sustainability with respect to exploitation and maintenance, and on the other hand the general interest of the scholarly community in open access. Digital editions are usually created based on project funding, limited in time. After funding runs out, they need to be hosted, administered and maintained into an indefinite future. Is there a conceivable business model for the digital scholarly edition that will help the edition pay for its own maintenance while maintaining open access?

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New additional events added!

Tessa Gengnagel

We have added several workshops and spring/summer schools to our additional events:

First of all, NeDiMAH is delighted to announce a one-day seminar, Toward a new social contract between publishers and editors, which will bring together publishers and scholarly editors in order to discuss how best to produce digital editions which are at the same time both economically viable and in keeping with scholarly standards. It takes place on 26 January 2015 in Grenoble, France. Registration is free of charge but obligatory (deadline 16 January 2015). If you are interested in participating, please send an email to Andrea Penso: andrea.penso@u-grenoble3.fr. You can find more information here.

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University of Victoria new Associated Partner of DiXiT

Tessa Gengnagel

We are very pleased to announce that the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria has now officially been approved by the EU’s Research Executive Agency as Associated Partner of DiXiT.

As part of this collaboration Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English and Computer Science, will be co-supervising DiXiT fellow Daniel Powell’s PhD research on social editing.

Moreover, DiXiT will be partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) in order to offer opportunities for members to participate in the series of DH courses at the University of Victoria, June 1st-5th 2015, June 8th-12th 2015, and June 15th-19th 2015.

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DigiLab workshop in Rome, 3-5 December

Tessa Gengnagel

There have been some additions to the additional events.

Most notably, we have added information about a workshop organized by the DigiLab at La Sapienza in Rome. From 3-5 December 2014, the workshop The Scholarly Digital Edition and the Humanities. Theoretical approaches and alternative tools will aim to present a critical approach to the digital representation of textual artefacts in the context of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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DH training event in Verona, 28-30 October

Tessa Gengnagel

From 28 – 30 October 2014, the Department for Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Verona hosts an introductory Seminar on Digital Humanities, aimed at PhD students and researchers in humanities disciplines. This seminar is fully endorsed by DiXiT and features, among others, Domenico Fiormonte and Tiziana Mancinelli. DiXiT ESR 12 Fellow Federico Caria will also participate. For more information, see the flyer.

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New section for additional events

Tessa Gengnagel

In the future, DiXiT will endorse and collaborate on events that are not part of the core DiXiT programme. For this reason, we have created a new section on the website to provide information about these additional events. The first additions are an introductory training event about Digital Humanities in Verona, end of October (see separate news post), and a workshop in Sassari in December. More information on the latter event will follow.