Author: Cathy Moran Hajo
Symposium: Toward a new social contract between publishers and editors
Cathy Moran Hajo
The Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and the Humanities is presenting a one-day symposium at Grenoble, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme on 26 January 2015. The program, which will be audio registered, will be live streamed at: http://www.msh-alpes.fr/en/direct_amphi. For the full programme, click on the programme-poster
Margaret Sanger Papers Moves To NYU Libraries
Cathy Moran Hajo
As of October 1, 2014, Dr. Esther Katz announces that the Margaret Sanger Papers, a scholarly editing project, has joined NYU’s Division of Libraries, after a long stint at the History Department in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As part of this move, the Project has new offices […]
Conference Program for the Society of Textual Scholarship Available
Cathy Moran Hajo
Several ADE members are participating in the upcoming Society for Textual Scholarship’s 18th International Interdisciplinary Conference, which will be held from March 20-22, 2014, at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. For the program see: http://textualsociety.org/current-conference-program/
Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (Europe) offers Marie Curie Fellowships
Cathy Moran Hajo
From the Humanist discussion list: The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) offers 12 Marie Curie fellowships to early stage researchers (ESRs) for a period of 3 years and 5 Marie Curie fellowships to experienced researchers (ERs) for a period of 12 to 20 months. Fellowships are now open […]
Einstein Papers Digital Platform Chosen
Cathy Moran Hajo
From Tizra’s Oct. 9, 2013 blog: Princeton University Press has selected Tizra as the digital publishing platform it will use to make The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein available online. One of the most ambitious publishing ventures ever undertaken in the documentation of the history of science, The Collected Papers […]
Call for Papers: The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750
Cathy Moran Hajo
THE EDITION AS ARGUMENT, 1550-1750 16-17 July 2014 Queen Mary, University of London Call for Papers Keynote Speakers: Professor Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield) Professor Henry Woudhuysen (Oxford University) Confirmed speakers: Kate Bennett, Christopher Burlinson, Dan Carey, David Colclough, Alice Eardley, Nick McDowell, Leah Marcus, Valerie Rumbold; Richard Serjeantson, Gary […]
Chronicling a Digital Edition of Defoe
Cathy Moran Hajo
In a blog post, “Digital editing with undergraduates: some reflections,” Stephen Gregg and Jess MacCarthy at Bath University chronicle their experiences creating an online digital edition of Daniel Defoe’s A Hymn to the Pillory, which became MacCarthy’s undergraduate dissertation. The post explores issues around using TEI and decentering authority.
How Can the ADE Improve Efforts to Work with Amateur Editors?
Cathy Moran Hajo
I recently came across Ben Brumfield’s summary of his recent presentation at the Social Digital Scholarly Editing meeting, on “The Collaborative Future of Amateur Editions.” Brumfield, self-described as “not a scholarly editor. . . an amateur editor and professional software developer,” is best-known for creating the wiki-based platform for crowdsourcing […]
Joseph Smith Papers Project Publication
Cathy Moran Hajo
The Standard-Examiner published an announcement that the Joseph Smith Papers Project has just published Volume 1. From the article This volume released Wednesday is called volume one even though it was published eighth in a series of other books. This volume took more than a decade to compile and research, […]
October 7 deadline for submissions to Scholarly Editing
Cathy Moran Hajo
This is just a brief reminder that there is still time if you wish to submit to Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing for the 2014 issue. We will continue to receive submissions for essays on the theory and practice of scholarly editing until October 7, 2013. Please see the full call for papers […]