We are very pleased to announce the programme of the second DiXiT convention to be held in Cologne, 15-18 March 2016, ‘Digital Editions: Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society’. Registration is now open!
With a great variety of excellent speakers from various fields the programme comprises sessions on Critical Editing, Building Communities, Cultural Heritage, Social Editing, Funding and Publishing. A large amount of new and current editing projects will be presented during a dedicated poster session. The core programme is preceded by intensive workshops on Publishing Models and Editing beyond XML. Special events will take place in the evening at interesting local venues.
Please find below an outline of the programme. Visit our convention website for abstracts and further details at:
Registration is open & free of charge at:
Early registration is recommended since places for several events are limited.
*** PROGRAMME ***
TUESDAY, 15 March 2016
Workshops, 11 am – 4:30 pm
Future Publishing Models for Digital Scholarly Editions
– Michael Pidd (University of Sheffield)
– Anna-Maria Sichani (Huygens Institute for History of the Netherlands)
– Paul Caton (King’s College London)
– Andreas Triantafyllidis (thinking(dot)gr / vivl(dot)io)
Digital Editing beyond XML
– Fabio Ciotti (University of Roma Tor Vergata)
– Manfred Thaller (University of Cologne)
– Desmond Schmidt (University of Queensland)
– Fabio Vitali (University of Bologna)
– Domenico Fiormonte (University of Edinburgh)
Opening Keynote, 5 pm
Claire Clivaz (University of Lausanne)
Multimodal literacies and continuous data publishing : ambiguous challenges for the editorial competences
WEDNESDAY, 16 March 2016
Critical Editing I, 9 – 11 am
Andreas Speer (University of Cologne)
Blind Spots of Digital Editions: The Case of Huge Text Corpora in Philosophy, Theology and the History of Sciences
Mehdy Sedaghat Payam (SAMT Organization for Research in Humanities, Iran)
Digital Editions and Materiality: A Media-specific Analysis of the First and the Last Edition of Michael Joyce’s Afternoon
Raffaella Afferni, Alica Borgna, Maurizio Lana, Paolo Monella, Timothy Tambassi (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
‘But What Should I Put in a Digital Apparatus’ – A Not-So-Obvious Choice: New Types of Digital Scholarly Editions
Building Communities, 11 am – 1 pm
Monica Berti (University of Leipzig)
Beyond Academia and Beyond the First World: Editing as Shared Discourse on the Human Past
Timothy L. Stinson (North Carolina State University)
The Advanced Research Consortium: Federated Resources for the Production and Dissemination of Scholarly Editions
Aodhán Kelly (University of Antwerp)
Digital Editing in Society: Valorization and Diverse Audiences
Cultural Heritage, 2 – 4 pm
Hilde Boe (The Munch Museum, Oslo)
Edvard Munch’s Writings: Experiences from Digitising the Museum
Thorsten Schassan (Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel)
The Influence of Cultural Heritage Institutions on Scholarly Editing in the Digital Age
Dinara Gagarina, Sergey Kornienko (Perm State University)
Digital Editions of Russia: Provincial Periodicals for Scholarly Usage
Poster Slam & Session, 4 – 6 pm
Museum Lecture, 7 pm
Location: Museum Kolumba
Helene Hahn (Open Knowledge Foundation, Berlin)
OpenGLAM & Civic Tech: Working with the Communities
followed by a reception & guided tour
THURSDAY, 17 March 2016
Social Editing & Funding, 9 – 11 am
Ray Siemens (University of Victoria)
The Social Edition in the Context of Open Social Scholarship
Till Grallert (Orient-Institut Beirut)
The Journal al-Muqtabas Between Shamela.ws, HathiTrust, and GitHub: Producing Open, Collaborative, and Fully Referencable Digital Editions of Early Arabic Periodicals – With Almost No Funds
Misha Broughton (University of Cologne)
Crowd-Funding the Digital Scholarly Edition: What We Can Learn From Webcomics, Tip Jars, and a Bowl of Potato Salad
Publishing, 11 am – 1 pm
Mike Pidd (University of Sheffield)
Scholarly Digital Editing by Machines
Anna-Maria Sichani (Huygens Institute for History of the Netherlands)
Beyond Open Access: (Re)use, Impact and the Ethos of Openness in Digital Editing
Alexander Czmiel (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Sustainable Publishing: Standardization Possibilities For Digital Scholarly Edition Technology
Licenses, 2 – 4 pm
Walter Scholger (Graz University)
Intellectual Property Rights vs. Freedom of Research: Tripping Stones in International IPR Law
Wout Dillen (University of Antwerp)
Editing Copyrighted Materials: On Sharing What You Can
Merisa Martinez (University of Borås), Melissa Terras (University College London)
Orphan Works Databases and Memory Institutions: A Critical Review of Current Legislation
Club Lecture/DiXiT meets Cologne Commons, 7 pm
Location: Stereo Wonderland
Ben Brumfield (Independet Scholar, Texas)
Accidental Editors and the Crowd
Frank Christian Stoffel (Cologne Commons)
My 15 min. fame with creative commons
followed by a live performance by Grüner Würfel Drehkommando
FRIDAY, 18 March 2016
Critical Editing II, 9 – 11 am
Charles Li (University of Cambridge)
Critical Diplomatic Editing: Applying Text-critical Principles as Algorithms
Vera Faßhauer (University of Frankfurt)
Private Ducal Correspondences in Early Modern Germany (1546-1756)
Cristina Bignami, Elena Mucciarelli (University of Tübingen)
The Language of the Objects: ‘Intermediality’ in Medieval South India
Closing Keynote, 11 am
Arianna Ciula (University of Roehampton)
Modelling Textuality: A Material Culture Framework