Annual meeting of the DARIAH-CH WG on Editions 2025

We are happy to announce the Annual meeting of the DARIAH-CH WG on Editions 2025, which will address the theme Editions from the users’ perspective

Date: 26 June 2025

Time: 10:15-16:30

Location: University of Bern (UniS, room A-122)

Keynote speaker: Dr. Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute)

Editions are fundamental resources in many areas of the humanities and beyond. But how do users engage with digital editions? Are digital editions being read or used? Are users mainly interested in the data or do they need guidance through the interface?

User experience (UX) design is commonplace in web development and is increasingly used in the creation of scholarly editions. But how do we balance the needs of users with the intentions of editors? Is there a trade-off between the need for standardisation and stability of data and presentation on the one hand, and the exploratory and innovative potential of digital editions on the other?

Keynote speaker

Dr. Joris J. van Zundert is a senior researcher and developer in humanities computing in the department of literary studies and the Digital Humanities Lab at the Huygens Institute. His research focuses on computational algorithms to analyze literary and historical texts, and on aspects of humanities information and data modeling. His computational analytic work focuses on the correlation between text immanent features of texts and sociological processes around the concept of literature. He is also involved in developing computational approaches to stemmatology, narratology, and scholarly editions. His PhD research in the field of Science and Technology Studies focused on methodological effects of the interaction between software engineers and humanities scholars.

Program

10:15-10:20	Introduction
10:20-11:00	Session 1: Elena Chestnova and Matthew Fielding - Presentation of the Semantic TEI project and results
11:10-12:00	Session 2: Joris van Zundert (Huygens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) “Sorting Users Out: Imagining Users and its Consequences”
13:00-14:40	Ursula Caflisch-Schnetzler (Universität Zürich), “Die Benutzerperspektive bei der Darstellung einer digitalen Edition” Stéphane Pétermann (Université de Lausanne), “Utiliser Gustave Roud. Textes & Archives” Stefan Münnich (Universität Basel), “Seeing the Unheard: Visualizing Editorial Data and Navigational Continuity in the Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe” Patricia Zihlmann (Universität Bern), “gotthelf-digital.ch – a Gotthelf universe for everyone”
15:00-16:20	Anouschka Mamie (Universität Zürich), “Designing Digital Editions with a Wider Audience in Mind” Daniela Kohler, Salome Schoeck, Elias Kreyenbühl, Jesko Reiling (Zentralbibliothek Zürich), “Turn The User Into a Co-Worker” Michael Blum and the ORD-Xplore team (Universität Zürich), “Interactive Exploration of Digital Editions: Insights and Outlook from the ORD-Xplore project”
16:30-16:40	Closing remarks

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Registration

To register for the event, please fill in this form before June 18.

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