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Conference: Open Up Digital Editions

The Center Digital Editions & Edition Analytics (University of Zurich), in collaboration with Research and Infrastructure Support (University of Basel), announces the conference Open Up Digital Editions.

In recent years, numerous innovative digital scholarly edition (DSE) projects have been implemented in Switzerland. The result is a growing scientific community. With the growing number of digital editions and the continuous availability of new edition data, issues of use and re-use are increasingly coming to the fore. However, many questions remain open and unresolved: Do editions meet the research needs? Which standards should future projects adopt? How do digital editions remain accessible after the end of the project? How can edition projects be linked with each other? These questions are of great concern to researchers, infrastructure providers and knowledge management institutions. The conference will provide a framework to discuss current approaches with a focus on developments in Switzerland and in relation to the international landscape.

The conference will be held on 25-26 January 2024 at the University of Zurich. Anyone with an interest in digital scholarly editions is welcome to take part in the conference. Further information on the program and the call for papers are available on the conference website.

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Shantou University, Shantou, China, 2019, by Shark Ovski. Online: Unsplash.