Research area• Literature & Cultural History• Digital scholarly text editing & publishing• Heuristic & statistical text analysis
Background• Word processing does not suffice• Inadequate transformations of traditional textual media
into digital environment• Focus on publishing environments rather than on
research environments• Technical ineptness of commercial and ´standard´
solutions for scholarly research
Reasons for the Action• Unavailability of digital infrastructure• Lack of philological modeled data exchange protocols
and web services• Current technical solutions limit effective collaboration• Lack of possibilities for scholars and developers to
converge and coordinate individual efforts• Create synergy between the large number of national
and institutional initiatives…
50° 16' 0" North, 8° 9' 0" East Location: Darmstadt, Germany
Institution: Technical University DarmstadtProject: Textgrid
Scale: NationalChallenges/Strengths:
• Vast corpus handling• Text to Grid technology• Grid based web services
52° 47' 0" North, -1° 92' 0" East Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Institution: ITSEEProject: XML Collate
Scale: InstitutionalChallenges/Strengths:
• Text collation• Web based text fragment identification
51° 22' 0" North, 4° 42' 0" East Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Institution: University of AntwerpProject: Genetic Criticism of Becket
Scale: InstitutionalChallenges/Strengths:
• Text genetic heuristics and analysis• Digital manuscript representation• Digital transformation of textual data
45° 48' 0" North, 16° 0' 0" East Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Institution: University of ZagrebProject: Digitizing Croatian Latin Writers
Scale: NationalChallenges/Strengths:
• Database publishing• Digital classical text representation
52° 07' 0" North, 4° 37' 0" East Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
Institution: Huygens InstituteProject: Edition Machine
Scale: RegionalChallenges/Strengths:
• Usability, visualization & interfaces• Text databases• Development process
48° 87' 0" North, 2° 33' 0" East Location: Paris, France
Institution: ITEMProject: HyperNietzsche
Scale: SupranationalChallenges/Strengths:
• Digital text theory• Digital text representation
51° 05' 0" North, 3° 72' 0" East Location: Ghent, Belgium
Institution: CTB/KANTLProject: DALF
Scale: RegionalChallenges/Strengths:
• XML Document Formats• Digital Text Applications
52° 07' 0" North, 4° 37' 0" East Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
Institution: DANSProject: Easystore
Scale: NationalChallenges/Strengths:
• Digital Text Data Archiving• Text Data Versioning• Web service integration
51° 75' 0" North, -1° 25' 0" East Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Institution: AHDS/OTAProject: Oxford Text Archive
Scale: NationalChallenges/Strengths:
• Digital Text Archiving
Supranational Infrastructure• Too ambitious for solitary research & development
groups• Individual groups are forced to focus on parts of an
overall infrastructure• Lack of supranational coordination causes duplication
of effort and focus
The Interedition Objective• Roadmap for the development of an interoperable
supranational infrastructure for digital scholarly editing, publishing and analysis
• Provided through the opportunity for involved and interested research and development groups to interact within the Interedition coordinating platform
Secondary Objectives• Set of proof of concept web services• Proposals to acquire funding for production
implementation level research and development• Obtain wider European involvement
Benefits• Effective and efficient international collaboration
between researchers and developers of the infrastructure
• Roadmap for production implementation• Recommendations for formats, services and protocols• Increased European dissemination of knowledge and
know how about tools and infrastructure for digital scholarly editing
• Creation of opportunities for new scholarly research collaborations
Organization• Management Committee• Project Manager• Working Groups
Prototyping(WG1)
Strategic IT(WG2)
Roadmap(WG3)
EU Dimension(WG4)
Dissemination• Target groups, differentiated levels of expertise• Workshops• Key PR occasions• Conference presentations• Active European ´reach out´ program