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Interoperable Supranational Infrastructurefor

Digital Editions

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

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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

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End of presentationCOST/ESF BrusselsSeptember 19th, 2007