{"id":10966,"date":"2012-01-02T16:23:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T21:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/?p=10966"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:02:39","slug":"report-workshop-on-tools-for-digital-scholarly-editions-cologne-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/report-workshop-on-tools-for-digital-scholarly-editions-cologne-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Workshop on Tools for Digital Scholarly Editions (Cologne, Germany)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Link to the Event<\/a><\/p>\n

On Monday, November 28th and Tuesday, November 29th, Dave Lester (Creative Lead for MITH) and I (Web Developer for MITH) attended the\u00a0Institute fuer Dokumentologie and Editorik (I-D-E)<\/a> workshop for Tools for Digital Scholarly Editions held at the University of Cologne, Germany. Alexander Czmiel from the University of Berlin and fellow for the I-D-E had invited Dave Lester and then me to the conference to give a report on the\u00a0Text and Image Linking Environment (TILE)<\/a> project. In addition, I helped organize a report on my work done with the Interedition team for interoperable annotation clients. This would be MITH\u2019s first appearance on the scene of the University of Cologne, which houses multiple institutions for Digital Humanities related projects and research affiliates: the\u00a0I-D-E<\/a>, as mentioned before, the\u00a0Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)<\/a> and the\u00a0International Center for Archival Research (ICARus)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After arriving at the workshop location, which was at a rather new and improved location on the Cologne campus, we met with Alexander Czmiel and his colleague, Patrick Sahle. As participants filtered in, Patrick and Alex started things off by introducing themselves and their mission: to establish a global community of Digital Humanities programmers focused on working together on scholarly editions. Their point is similar to that of Interedition, which focuses on establishing programmer networks to prevent duplicity of efforts and tools. To paraphrase Joris Van Zundert, lead for the Interedition project, \u201cYou don\u2019t need two collation engines

[sic]\u201d. Indeed, as every one of the approximately 40 participants introduced themselves, we found many intersections in our projects and in our research. In order to better work together, the workshop was set for each of us to unconference ideas together and brainstorm ways forward. The workshop\u2019s focus then quickly switched to what, exactly, it is that each of us is working on and how it might be different or similar.<\/p>\n

To aid with this, we proceeded to give or listen to a series of 15-20 minute presentations on specific projects. Each of them was an interesting take on the idea of linking data together with marked-up text or image files. Here\u2019s a list of them to peruse:<\/p>\n