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DiXiT Digital Scholarly Edition Initial Training Network

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Mission statement

DiXiT is an international network of high-profile institutions

from the public and the private sector that are actively

involved in the creation and publication of digital scholarly

editions.

DiXiT offers a coordinated training and research programme

for early stage researchers and experienced researchers

in the multi-disciplinary skills, technologies, theories, and

methods of digital scholarly editing.

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Facts and Figures

• Marie Curie Action (Initial Training Network)

• Consortium of 10 European Universities

• Associated Partners from private and public sector

• 17 Fellowships (12 early stage researchers and 5 expert

researchers)

• Kick-off in September 2013

• Call for applications October 2013

• Fellowships start in March/April 2014

• Running until August 2017 (48 months)

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Consortium

• École des Haute Études en Sciences

Sociales (F)

• King’s College London (UK)

• Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van

Wetenschappen (NL)

• Trinity College Dublin (IE)

• University of Antwerp (B)

• University of Boras (S)

• University of Cologne (D)

• University of Graz (A)

• University of Oxford (UK)

• Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ (I)

• Another 17 Associated Partners, also from

the private sector (e.g. SyncRO Soft Ltd.,

Wikimedia, TEI-C, NeDiMah, ...)

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Work Packages

• WP1: Concepts, Theory, Practice

– assessing and mapping different types of digital scholarly editing

in a typology of existing and future editions, also beyond text

– 5 ESR, 1 ER

• WP2: Technology, Standards, Software

– tools and technological infrastructure supporting digital scholarly

editions

– 1 ESR, 3 ER

• WP3: Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society

– Digital Cultural Heritage, public engagement, Web 2.0 and

publication models

– 6 ESR, 1 ER

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Research Fellows

• Early-Stage Researchers must be in the first four years (full-time

equivalent research experience) of their research careers and not yet

have a doctoral degree.

• Experienced Researchers must be in possession of a doctoral

degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research

experience.

• Researchers can be of any nationality. They are required to

undertake trans-national mobility. Researchers must not have resided

or carried out their main activity in the country of their host

organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to the

reference date.

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Research Fellows

• ESR 1: Digital scholarly editing and mass digitization (TCD)

• ESR 2: Document-centric editions (KCL)

• ESR 3: Digital architecture and the role of editor (UA)

• ESR 4: Paleography and digital scholarly editions (GU)

• ESR 5: Practice and usability of critical editions (EHESS)

• ESR 6: TEI and web-based editing tools (KNAW)

• ESR 7: Mass digitization data for scholarly research and digital edition (UoC)

• ESR 8: Critical transmission aspects (HB)

• ESR 9: Social editing (KCL)

• ESR 10: Long-term business models in dissemination and publishing (KNAW)

• ESR 11: Dissemination of digital editions (UA)

• ESR 12: Critical editing as a cultural process (RI)

• ER 1: Digital editions vs. digital libraries (HB)

• ER 2: TEI application profile: Versioning (TCD)

• ER 3: Requirements for a publication infrastructure (UOX)

• ER 4: Tool integration in the digital edition (UoC)

• ER 5: Canonical reference & sustainability of digital edition (GU)

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Programme Schedule

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Camps

Camps are geared towards training, tailored to needs of Digital Scholarly

Editors

• Camp 1: Theories, Practices, Methods (King’s College London, m. 9)

– Modelling the Edition: Three days course to provide all students with essential

skills on data/textual/documentary modelling with the purpose of defining aims and

goals of editing a particular text: (1) Models and modelling, (2) Hands-on exercises,

(3) Evaluating Digital Scholarly Editions.

• Camp 2: Technology, Software, Standards (University of Graz, m. 15)

– Introduction to TEI P5 XML for Digital Scholarly Editions: Four days course to

provide students with a TEI-based theoretical framework and practical experience in

creating digital editions using the open international encoding standard TEI P5 XML.

• Camp 3: Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society (University of Boras, m.21)

– Critical Transmission, Dissemination and Sustainability: Three days course to

enable students to strengthen their understanding of critical transmission through an

interplay of analytical and hands-on skills in the areas of digitizing and editing

source material, and of disseminating and sustaining digital scholarly editions.

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Conventions

Conventions are aimed at exchange with private sector and

the general public, as well as fellow scholars.

• Convention 1: Technology, Software, Standards – The Hague, m. 26

• Convention 2: Theories, Practices, Methods – Antwerp, m. 33

• Convention 3: Academia, Cultural Heritage, Society – Cologne, m. 40

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Outreach

• DiXiT showcase on http://digitalmeetsculture.net

• DiXiT Outreach Summer School “Digital Scholarly

Editing: Educating the Next Generation”(m. 42)

• 3 Anthologies, each linked to one of the Work

Packages (m. 44-48)

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DiXiT and DARIAH

• Research fellows will profit from DARIAH

expertise, communication infrastructure and

outreach.

• Research fellows will be key researchers to

develop DARIAH, directly contributing to VCCs

fitting to their research topics.

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DiXiT Contributions to DARIAH

1. Feedback on experience about tools and digital archiving

methods to VCC1 (e-Infrastructure)

2. Development of training materials and contributions to

the development of curricula to VCC2 (Research and

education)

3. Best practices identified during the course of the project

to VCC3 (Scholarly content management)

4. Measuring impact and value of digitally-enabled

humanities research with VCC4 (Advocacy)

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