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'Digital Editions Live' - Workshop

25 June 2021, 3-5pm.

Methodology Workshop in cooperation with OCTET and Dark Archives.

  • Insights from the Series of 'Digital Editions Live' launches
  • Developing a framework for digital editing and exploring manuscripts online 
  • Reflections on preparing digital editions in times of lockdown
  • Development of new digital methods for teaching History of the Book
  • Further Perspectives in conjunction with the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory and initiatives at Trinity College Dublin
Miniature from the manuscript "Werken"

 

For the digital edition launch events cf. ) will be accessible via . They will be linked in to the Taylor Editions https://editions.mml.ox.ac.uk/ and archived via OCTET . 

At four thematic panels, the graduate students will discuss with international guests and Oxford-based editors from OCTET and Digital Humanities methodological issues arising from the digital launches and the digital public engagement they undertook for their projects.  

  • Opening: Chris Fletcher
  • Panel A) Expanding Unicode: Encoding and Digital Challenges (chair: Stephen Pink, Dark Archives) 
  • Panel B) Expanding Editions: Linguistic and Philological Challenges (chair: Andrew Dunning, Medieval Manuscripts) 
  • Panel C) Expanding Knowledge: Research Challenges (chair: Dirk van Hulle, OCTET) 
  • Panel D) Expanding Access: Public Engagement Challenges (chair: Alex Franklin, Centre for the Study of the Book) 
  • Roundtable discussion (chair: Henrike Lähnemann)

6pm - Open Air Drinks for Oxford participants in St Edmund Hall  

Panelists for A (encoding): 

  • Sebastian Dows-Miller: Re-awakening Merton's Beasts (Merton College, MS. 249)  
  • Eva Neufeind and Agnes Hilger: Arnold von Harff (MS. Bodley 972) 
  •  Sam Griffiths and Christian Tofte: Marginalia in Plutarch's Vidas Paralelas (1491)  

Panelists for B (philology): 

  • Josephine Bewerunge, Molly Ford, Sam Heywood, Caroline Lehnert, Molly Lewis, Marlene Schilling: A collective edition of a German devotional miscellany (MS. Germ. e. 5)  
  • Alexandra Hertlein: Jacob Locher Panegyricus (Inc. e. G7.1497.2./Douce 73) 
  • Edmund Wareham and Alyssa Steiner: Reformation Pamphlets 

Panelists for C (knowledge): 

  • Katie Bastiman and Holly Abrahamson: Dante Ante-Purgatorio (MS. Canon.Ital. 108) 
  • Gabriel O'Regan: Le Roman de Renart (Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 360) 
  • Javaria Abbasi: Pedro de Medina's Libro de cosmographia (1538), (MS. Canon. Ital. 243) 
  • Giuseppe Nanfitò: Boccaccio, Filocolo (MS. Canon. Ital. 85) 

Panelists for D (access): 

  • Mary Newman: The oldest Tupi manuscript (MS. Bodley 617) 
  • Lois Williams: Cân o Senn iw Hên Feistr TOBACCO (1718), NLW. North PRINT W.s. 156 
  • Daniella Apodaca: Le Roman de Flamenca DH project across editions and translations 
  • Carrie Heusinkveld: Reconsidering the Metamorphoses by Clément Marot (MS. Douce 117)