Digital Humanities in Early Music Research III/1

A series of conferences and workshops focusing on the use of digital humanities in early music research.

The series is open to the public free of charge. 

Session III – Digital Editions: why, what & how

5–12 October 2020

Monday October 5th, 4–5 p.m.,

Tuesday October 6th, 4–6 p.m.

Monday October 12th, 4–5 p.m.

online sessions via Zoom

The session will focus on how the various digital tools that we as musicologists have at our disposal are brought together to create digital editions, and how new knowledge can be extracted from the encoded data. We are pleased to announce that this time we will have speakers from the Corpus Monodicum (CM) project and THesaurus Musicarum Germanicarum (TMG) project.

Monday October 5th

4 PM Central European Time / 16:00 CET
Digital editng and the printed book – methodological and practical perspectives on the hybrid-edition of the manuscript Pa 1139
Konstanin Voigt (Uni Freiburg)

Digital editions overcome the limitations of the book format. They free the presentation of materials from the
topography of the page, from static production deadlines and limited storage capacity of the printed book.
Therefore, they allow for a potentially complete representation of the remnants of a certain past — such as all the
extant versions of a certain piece of music, the complete library of a certain institution etc. Having completeness
and user-defined arrangement as their specific potential, digital editions tend to leave the selective evaluation of
the material to the readers. The gain of quantitative delimitation comes at the price of qualitative selections which
traditionally defined the (implicit) historiographic programs of editions. By the power of exclusion and inclusion,
the limitations of the book-format also define its authority. Hybrid editions comprising both printed and digital
elements promise a combination of the authority of the printed book with the comprehensive and dynamic
network of open-source digital access. In this contribution, the concept of the hybrid-edition of the manuscript Pa
1139 within the Corpus Monodicum is presented as an attempt to understanding edition both as historiographic
selection and faithful representation of the network-character of medieval transmission.

As with session II, there is a registration form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUCyHY_j_9gjbHWHdF8yv4ca3mDZqFJ1okKlZ7pBRSAu_L0Q/viewform?usp=pp_url

If you wish to be at the workshop, please fill in the form and we will send the Zoom meeting link to the e-mail address you give us there. Registration is open up until October 1st. Since virtual meetings will most likely not be subject to participant limits due to epidemiological concerns, please do not hesitate to circulate this invitation among your colleagues, students, and anyone who might also be interested!

Další informace bude možno v následujících dnech najít na webových stránkách projektu "Staré mýty, nová fakta" (www.smnf.cz).