RIDE 16 ist da (in Koop. mit Text+)

Wir freuen uns, ankündigen zu können, dass der erste gemeinsame RIDE Band von Text+ und dem Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik e.V. (IDE) veröffentlicht wurde. In Band 16 von RIDE wurden fünf Editionen rezensiert, u. a. in Hinblick auf die Anwendung der FAIR Data Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Innerhalb der Text+-Task Area Editionen und dort insbesondere in der sog. Measure „Standardisierung“ beschäftigen sich die Projektbeteiligten sehr intensiv mit Fragen der Anwendbarkeit der FAIR-Prinzipien im Bereich digitale Editionen: Was bedeutet FAIRness in diesem Kontext? Sind die FAIR-Prinzipien überhaupt sinnhaft auf digitale Editionsprojekte anwendbar? Und wie FAIR wären dann unsere Editionen? Der vorliegende Band  soll bei der Klärung dieser Fragen einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten.

Die folgenden Beiträge sind enthalten:

  • Gengnagel, Tessa; Neuber, Frederike; Schulz, Daniela. „EDITORIAL: FAIR Enough? Evaluating Digital Scholarly Editions and the Application of the FAIR Data Principles.“ RIDE 16 (2023). doi: 10.18716/ride.a.16.0.
  • Untner, Laura. „Review of ‚Walter Benjamin Digital‘.“ RIDE 16 (2023). doi: 10.18716/ride.a.16.1.
  • Galka, Selina. „Review of ‚Digitale Edition und Kommentierung der Tagebücher des Fürsten Christian II. von Anhalt-Bernburg (1599–1656)‘.“ RIDE 16 (2023). doi: 10.18716/ride.a.16.2.
  • Görmar, Maximilian. „Review of ‚Briefportal Leibniz‘.“ RIDE 16 (2023). doi: 10.18716/ride.a.16.3.
  • Frühwirt, Timo; Meyer, Sandra; Stoxreiter, Daniel. „Review of ‚Theodor Fontane’s Notebooks: A ‘Digital Genetic-Critical and Commented Edition’‘.“ RIDE 16 (2023). doi: 10.18716/ride.a.16.4.
  • Pollin, Christopher. „A Review of the Königsfelden Online Edition.“ RIDE 16 (2023). doi: 10.18716/ride.a.16.5.

Ein zweiter gemeinsamer Band mit einem Schwerpunkt auf den FAIR-Prinzipien ist bereits in Arbeit und erste Beiträge werden voraussichtlich noch im Frühjahr im „rolling release“-Verfahren veröffentlicht werden. Interessensbekundungen zur Übernahme einer Review können gerne weiterhin an die Herausgeberinnen gerichtet werden ride-textplus[at]i-d-e.de (siehe auch den Call for Reviews).

Enjoy the (FAIR) RIDE!

Das Herausgeberinnenteam

Tessa Gengnagel, Frederike Neuber und Daniela Schulz

DigEdTnT: Workshop – Meet the Tools and Developers

Das Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE) ist Mitorganisator des Workshops “DigEdTnT: Workshop – Meet the Tools and Developers”. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Tools, die in der Umsetzung digitaler Editionen Verwendung finden. Dieser findet vom 23.02 bis 24.02 am Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung an der Universität Graz statt. Die Veranstaltung ist hybrid.

Mehr Information gibt es hier: https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/institut/veranstaltungen/digedtnt-workshop-meet-the-tools-and-developers/

Den Abendvortrag hält Ulrike Henny zum Thema „Tools für digitale Editionen als Helfer und Hürden: Wie nehmen wir die Werkzeuge in die Hand?“.

RIDE 15 ist da – Tools and Environments for DSE

Weihnachtszeit ist RIDE-Zeit!

Wir freuen uns, Ihnen die fünfzehnte Ausgabe der Rezensionszeitschrift RIDE anzukündigen, die seit 2014 vom Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE) herausgegeben wird.

Die aktuelle Ausgabe wird von Anna-Maria Sichani und Elena Spadini herausgegeben und befasst sich mit Tools und Environments für digitale wissenschaftliche Editionen. Sie enthält sechs Rezensionen (fünf auf Englisch, eine auf Französisch):

Alle Rezensionen sind verfügbar unter https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-15/.

Da diese Ausgabe als ‚rolling release‘ veröffentlicht wird, werden in den nächsten Monaten weitere Rezensionen folgen.

 

Workshop on Information Visualization in the (Digital) Humanities

The Centre for Information Modelling, in cooperation with the Department of Translation Studies at the University of Graz and Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik, is organizing a workshop on information visualization in the digital humanities on October 27 and 28, 2022. A jury of internationally recognized experts will discuss and reflect on the practical contributions of colleagues from different fields.

For the full program see: https://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/institut/veranstaltungen/workshop-on-information-visualization-in-the-digital-humanities/

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Conference: Machine Learning and Data Mining for Digital Scholarly Editions

On 9-10 June 2022, a conference on „Machine Learning and Data Mining for Digital Scholarly Editions“ will take place at the University of Rostock to gather researchers working at the interface of the two fields and to foster the discussion on the applicability of Machine Learning and Data Mining techniques in the area of Digital Scholarly Editing.

The conference is co-organized by the Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik, the Academy Junior Professorship for Digital Humanities at the University of Rostock, the Know Center and the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz. It is funded by the University of Rostock and supported by the NEISS project.

For the full program, information about participation, etc. see: https://www.i-d-e.de/ml-dse

RIDE: Call for Reviews in Cooperation with Text+

In collaboration with the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE), the Text+ consortium of the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) invites authors to submit reviews of digital scholarly editions for the journal RIDE. The reviews should be based on the IDE criteria for reviewing digital editions and focus on the application of the FAIR principles for this special issue.

 

Cooperation and goals

Text+ has been active since 2021. The consortium is dedicated to the development of a research data infrastructure for text- and language-based materials, divided, to start with, into three data domains: lexical resources, collections, and scholarly editions. Scholarly editions are critical representations of documents from the past that are primarily used in the study of research objectives within the humanities.

A central task of the data domain “editions” is the assessment of methods and practices of the editorial process, as well as the development of recommendations for the creation, processing and publication of research data. According to the FAIR principles, data from editions should be „Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable.“ Applying these principles to digital resources is becoming more and more important, but they are yet to be discussed in depth in the context of scholarly editions. The implementation of the FAIR principles is crucial for central aspects of working with digital editions; these include, for example, aspects of search, linking, licensing, and re-use. In order to gain a better understanding of what “FAIR” entails in the context of editions specifically and whether and how these principles can be applied to digital scholarly editions, existing practices are best described in the form of reviews. On the basis of individual case studies, reviews allow a survey of the diverse editorial landscape and can thus contribute to the development of new criteria. For this reason, Text+ has chosen to cooperate with the review journal RIDE which was first published in 2014 and has been, since then, leading in the review of digital scholarly editions. Together, Text+ and RIDE seek to further promote the discourse on best practices in the creation and publication of digital editions in general and in the application of the FAIR principles in particular.

 

Modalities

Interested reviewers can contact us with proposals at ride-textplus@i-d-e.de (name, affiliation, edition). The deadline for proposals is 17 May 2022, but we may remain open for inquiries afterwards. Publication of the volume(s) will be by ‘rolling release’.

The reviews are to be based on the catalog of criteria for digital editions developed by the IDE. A handout for evaluating the “FAIRness” of a digital edition has also been developed for Text+ editions (see below). As with all RIDE reviews, a submission consists of the review text and a factsheet, the latter based on a questionnaire to be completed by the reviewer. We accept submissions in German and English.

The editors of the first edition are Tessa Gengnagel (Cologne Center for eHumanities), Frederike Neuber (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and Daniela Schulz (Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel).

 

FAIR in digital editions – criteria

Reviewers should address (amongst others) the following aspects regarding the application of the FAIR-principles in digital scholarly editions:

Findable. Can the edition be found via library catalogs, discovery systems, or relevant edition catalogs (e.g., the Catalogue of Digital Editions maintained by Greta Franzini or the catalog by Patrick Sahle)? Can the data be found through disciplinary repositories or general research data repositories (including Zenodo, Dariah Collection Registry, Humanities Commons)? Is a persistent identifier used? How efficient is a search for the edition using a search engine?

Accessible. Is the edition freely accessible for any user, or are there access restrictions? Which parts of the edition are accessible (presentation layer, data layer)? Have global aspects of accessibility been taken into account, e.g. by allowing language selection? What about web accessibility and user friendliness of the edition?

Interoperable. Is the (primary) data recorded in a standardized and widely used format (e.g. according to TEI and its subsets or specific customizations such as the DTABf) which would allow for the integration of the data into larger corpora or the use of specific software solutions? Is the data on which the edition is based accessible via technical interfaces? Does the edition offer special APIs? Does it itself aggregate data via interfaces from other resources (e.g. as part of IIIF)?

Reusable. Is the edition data accessible, and if so, how (individual download, aggregate download, repository, API)? What are the licenses for the edition data? Do they allow any subsequent use at all? Are the data sets and their creation, processing and modeling documented in such a way that third parties can work with them?

 

Suggestions for Review

Reviewers can either choose from the a list of digital editions from German-speaking countries which we have created in the Text+ context or from the general suggestion list of RIDE. Your own suggestions are also welcome!