This blogpost was originally posted on the official DiXiT blog. Earlier this month, I traveled to Warsaw to attend the Historical Source Edition 2.0 conference (6-7 October) organised by Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History; the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center; and the University of Saskatchewan. On paper it was again a small step outside of…
This blogpost was originally posted on the official DiXiT blog. So apparently it’s October 2017 already. DiXiT has officially ended a month ago, and it’s been six since the end of my fellowship. How did this happen? Is DiXiT really over? Thankfully, re-reading my co-fellows’ final DiXiT blogposts (by Tuomo, Frederike, Misha, Roman, Elena, Linda, and Merisa) seems to…
via Frans Wiering The fourth DHBenelux Conference will take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 July 2017. The conference will be hosted by Utrecht University and is open to everyone, including researchers from outside the Benelux. The DHBenelux conference is an initiative that aims to disseminate digital humanities projects in…
I thought I’d post a small update on what’s been happening, and what’s in store. Guest blogs It may seem like I haven’t been blogging a lot lately, but that’s not exactly true. I just haven’t been doing all of it here, on Bytes & Bikes. I’ve written two guest blogs on other websites, that you’re more…
This blogpost was originally posted on the official DiXiT blog. Hejhej! My name is Wout Dillen, I’m from Antwerp (Belgium), and I’m happy to have become part of the DiXiT network at the start of last month! Almost entering its final year, DiXiT has already become quite a well-known network in the field of digital…
Or: Wout går till Sverige Two days ago, I packed my bags, boarded a plane, and set off to Sweden. To Gothenburg Landvetter, to be exact — departing in Deurne instead of Zaventem due to the tragic events that took place in Brussels only last week. Still, we try to move on, and as it was such a beautiful day,…
In Cologne, the DiXiT 2 conference is drawing to a close, as the last half day of talks has started. It’s been a great conference so far, with a rich social programme and a series of very interesting talks. And I’m especially looking forward to Arianna Ciula’s closing keynote on Modelling Textuality. Something to look…
On June 9-10, the CVCE and the University of Luxembourg will host the third edition of DHBenelux, a young international initiative that strives to further the dissemination of, and collaboration between Digital Humanities projects in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Yesterday, the last week of the CfP started, as the deadline expires this Sunday, so don’t miss your chance…
Today, we uploaded the BDMP‘s custom TEI schema to the BDMP Encoding Manual (both in ODD and RelaxNG formats). These schemata can be used by BDMP contributors to validate their XML, or by anyone else who is interested. For more information (and the link to download the schema), please refer to the BDMP Encoding Manual’s Validation…
This week on 17-18 September 2015, LexiconSE contributor Luciano Lungo and his colleagues at the University of Palermo are organizing an international conference on ‘Contemporary Knowledge in the Humanities‘, and I’m really happy to be delivering a paper there as well. In my paper, I will introduce the Lexicon of Scholarly Editing to the conference’s wider audience of…