Till Grallert, Astrid Meier, Torsten Wollina
Orient-Institut Beirut
March, 08 to March 09, 2015
Over the last two decades the humanities and their prime object of study as well as their product, the written text, have undergone major transformations that, for a large part, have come from outside, from the realm of engineers and technologists and that are encapsulated in two terms: digital and the internet. The challenge is how we, scholars in the humanities, can actively shape this epistemic shift happening all around us in order to create opportunities for a better understanding of human societies as well as to foster broader access to cultural artefacts and our results. Finally, we are interested in the new forms of participation and collaboration in our researchfrom crowd sourcing to distributed editing. For this it is necessary to become familiar with, if not fluent in, the languages and logics of the new episteme. The workshop aims at exactly that by bringing together people involved in the D and the H of digital humanities—scholars and technologists—to discuss the technical possibilities to improve editorial processes as well as its product(s) and how do we guarantee wide and easy access to our scholarship for the academic community and the wider public.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss with editors, publishers, and (proespective) users of our editions scalable long-term solutions and workflows that contribute to the following aims:
This workshop is by registration only. To find out more about the programme and register, please contact Till Grallert.
9 March: Demands and possibilities
09:30 - 10:00 | Welcome Stefan Leder, Till Grallert, Astrid Meier, Torsten Wollina |
10:00- 12:00 | Demands open discussion, input from conveyors |
12:00- 12:30 | lunch |
13:30 - 15:00 | Possibilities: XML, TEl Mokhtar Ben Henda, Till Grallert |
15:00 - 15:30 | coffee |
15:30- 16:30 | Possibilities: Denq Jorg Hornschemeyer |
16:30- 17:00 | coffee |
17:00- 18:00 | Possibilities: Ediarium Alexander Czmiel |
20:00 | Dinner |
10 March: Experiences and challenges
9:30-10:00 | recap 1st day conveyors |
10:00 - 11:30 | Experiences: Digital editions of Arabic manuscripts Cornelius Berthold, Stefan Leder, Daniel Brenn |
11:30 - 12:00 | coffee |
12:00 - 13:30 | Experiences: Semantic mark-up, multi-lingual XML, computational linguistics Alexander Czmiel, Mokhtar Ben Henda, Ute Pietruschka |
13:30 - 15:00 | lunch |
15:00 - 16:30 | Experiences: Presentation, metadata, linked data, best practices, standards Boris Liebrenz, Michael Kaiser, Gerd Winkelhane |
16:30- 17:00 | coffee |
17:00- 18:00 | open discussion |