Sidestone Press Advances in Digital Scholarly Editing: Papers presented at the DiXiT conferences in The Hague, Cologne, and Antwerp

As the papers in this volume testify, digital scholarly editing is a vibrant practice. Scholarly editing has a long-standing tradition in the humanities. It is of crucial importance within disciplines such as literary studies, philology, history, philosophy, library and information science, and bibliography. In fact, digital scholarly editing represents one of the longest traditions in the field of Digital Humanities ― and the theories, concepts, and practices that were designed for editing in a digital environment have in turn deeply influenced the development of Digital Humanities as a discipline. By bringing together the extended abstracts from three conferences organised within the DiXiT project (2013-2017), this volume shows how digital scholarly editing is still developing and constantly redefining itself. DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editing Initial Training) is one of the most innovative training networks for a new generation of scholars in the field of digital scholarly editing, established by ten European leading institutions from academia, in close collaboration with the private sector and cultural heritage institutions, and funded under the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. The partners together represent a wide variety of technologies and approaches to European digital scholarly editing. The extended abstracts of the convention contributions assembled in this volume showcase the multiplicity of subjects dealt with in and around the topics of digital editing: from issues of sustainability to changes in publications cultures, from the integrity of research and intellectual rights to mixed methods applied to digital editing―to name only a few. From the Publisher Dr. Peter Boot is a senior researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. He studied mathematics and Dutch literature and wrote a thesis about electronic annotation in digital editions. He works as a consultant on digital scholarly edition projects. His research focusses on online repertoire formation. His publications include Mesotext. Digitised Emblems, Modelled Annotations and Humanities Scholarship (2009), as well as articles about emblem books, emblem digitisation, digital editing, online book discussion and online writing communities. Dr. Anna Cappellotto is a post-doctoral research fellow in Medieval Studies at the University of Verona. At the same institution she has been recently awarded a PhD in Medieval Philology and her thesis deals with the edition of a Middle High German translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. During her PhD she has been a DAAD research fellow at the University of Cologne (Cologne Center for eHumanities), where she has received a research grant (with Dr. Tiziana Mancinelli) for the project “A Digital Scholarly Edition of Renaissance Women Writers in Italy and Germany”. She is in the editorial board of the journal Medioevi. Rivista di letterature e culture medievali. Her publications include articles on Durs Grünbein, Peter Weiss, Mario Wirz, Robert Hamerling, and Albrecht von Halberstadt. Dr. Wout Dillen is a postdoctoral researcher working at the University of Antwerp as the coordinator of the Antwerp division of the DARIAH-VL consortium of DARIAH-BE. In 2015 he defended a Ph.D. thesis on ‘Digital Scholarly Editing for the Genetic Orientation.’ For this project he also developed the online Lexicon of Scholarly Editing (http://uahost.uantwerpen.be/lse/), initiated by Dirk van Hulle. In 2016-2017, he worked as an experienced researcher as part of the DiXiT Marie Curie Initial Training Network on a project titled ‘Digital Scholarly Editing and Memory Institutions,’ hosted by the University of Borås. His most recent publications dealt with genetic criticism, text encoding, scholarly digital editing, and copyright restrictions. In 2017, he became the secretary of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS). Dr. Franz Fischer is coordinator and researcher at the Cologne Center