Call for Papers: 13th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship

Call for Papers for the 13th annual conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) that will be hosted by the University of Antwerp’s Centre for Manuscript Genetics.

Conference Title: Digital Scholarly Editing: Theory, Practice, Methods

Conference organized by the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) and the Digital Scholarly Editing Initial Training Network (DiXiT); hosted by the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

• Date: 5-7 October 2016
• Keynote speakers: Kathryn Sutherland and Paul Eggert
• Deadline: 20 March 2016
• More detail here.

Call for Papers: Digital Editions: Academia, Society, Cultural Heritage

The Cologne Center for eHumanities is organizing the second DiXiT convention, taking place 16-18 March 2015 in Cologne, Germany. The conference will be preceded by a day dedicated to workshops on:

• Publishing Models for Digital Scholarly Editions
• Aggregation of Digital Cultural Content and Metadata Mapping
• XML-Free Scholarly Editing

The convention organizers invite contributions from everyone working in the field of scholarly editing and its neighbouring areas. Early career scholars are welcome.

• While the convention is open to any research about digital scholarly editing, the focus will be on its relation to academia, society and cultural heritage. As such, topics for the sessions may especially include:
• textual criticism and the future of the high standard critical edition
• open/public knowledge: mutual benefit for academia & society
• social editing, crowdsourcing, citizen science
• issues of rights and ethics related to scholarly editions
• scholarly curation and usage of cultural heritage data
• museums, libraries & archives as data providers for the edition
• dissemination, sustainability and addressability of digital heritage assets
• publishing the edition and the role of publishers
• editors and the job market: career prospects
• and others

The deadline for submission is 16 October 2015. More info on submissions here.