OSCE Programme

Friday 22nd September 2006, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

7 Arundel Street, London, WC2R 3DX (map)

10.00 Session 1: critical editions

Digital Editions and the Philologist

• argument: The agenda and research goals of philologists need to be kept in mind—even if modified and enhanced—when using digital technologies to create, edit, and study texts.

• presenter: Charlotte Roueché (OSCE Roueche Paper)
• responder: Stephen Oakley

Markup

• argument: XML (and within it especially TEI) offers both a solid standard for text markup as well as limitations which have to be managed in a collaborative framework. Depth of markup may be a hindrance as well as an advantage of this technology.

• presenter: Gabriel Bodard (OSCE Bodard Paper)
• responder: Notis Toufexis (OSCE Toufexis Response)

11.30 Session 2: technologies

eScience/VRE/Grid

• argument: the eScience methodologies offer a powerful technological framework for digital research. These technologies need to be exploited for digital authoring, collaborative text editing, wide dissemination, and effective processing of available texts.

• presenter: Stuart Dunn (OSCE Dunn Paper)

• responder: Nathan Lea

Depth and Scale

• argument: The computational analysis of digital editions needs both a large enough corpus and a degree of deep encoding—any given textual project needs to find its own balance between these two. The field as a whole and any repository need to be able to accept and handle texts with a minimal layer of markup as well as more richly encoded versions.

• presenter: Gregory Crane (OSCE Crane Paper)

• responder: Melissa Terras

Collaboration

• argument: Large-scale digital projects make it possible, and even essential, that scholars work together to achieve multi-disciplinary work that is entirely within no one person's expertise. There are managerial and technological issues to be addressed with any collaborative project.

• presenter: Ross Scaife (OSCE Scaife Paper)

• responder: Simon Mahony

14.00 Session 3: protocols

Licensing/Open Source

• argument: Scholarship has always depended on transparency and availability of source texts and arguments, and these features need to be carried over into legal licensing of digital editions.

• presenter: Sayeed Choudhury (OSCE Choudhury Paper)

• responder: Brian Fuchs (OSCE Fuchs Response)

Registries/referencing

• argument: The proliferation of different kinds of critical digital texts need to be identified according to a standard registry—even if the hosting is distributed—if protocols of referencing are to be usefully consistent.

• presenter: Neel Smith (OSCE Smith Paper)

• responder: Juan Garcés (OSCE Garces Response)

Authority/Peer Review

• argument: Digital editions, particularly in a collaborative framework, need both traditional means of quality assurance and new approaches.

• presenter: Daniel Deckers / Lutz Koch (OSCE Deckers Paper)

• responder: Dolores Iorizzo

16.00 Session 4: open discussion

Summary and further topics to be discussed

• chair: Juan Garcés

Values of traditional scholarship

• chair: Brian Fuchs

Future Strategies

• chair: Gregory Crane