Already looking forward to conference season, which will start in May in Montpellier with Médias 19 (haven't presented in French in such a long time!).
Who else is going to #RSVP2026 and #BAVS2026?
I've already booked my ferry from Dublin to Holyhead for the Sunday (13:50-16:05 with Irish Ferries)
As @drhorrocks.bsky.social @vicmanch.bsky.social noted, Victorianists have the opportunity of back-to-back conferences with #RSVP2026 held in Dublin, 23-25 July & #BAVS2026 held in Liverpool, 27-29 July
Too late to apply to RSVP, but submissions still open for BAVS!
#BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies
Ok, great, that's for sharing! The no-theme makes it easy to send in a proposal!
I've never been to BAVS. Is the deadline for proposals already passed?
Just submitted my proposal entitled "Worldwide fin-de-siècle scam ad syndication: the case of the Morse Manufacturing Company"!
Which other #BookHistory and #PeriodicalStudies scholars are hoping to meet up in Dublin?
Has any #BookHistory or #PeriodicalStudies scholar joined the Open Science Network pilot?
"Federate with Mastodon and Bluesky and integrate your social graph with scholarly data. Transform any conversation into citable FAIR data with persistent identifiers."
Promising for scholarly communication!
My take-away is that it would save cleaning time if digitization services either:
- provided XML files; or at least
- standardized the way of presenting page breaks in .txt files
MDZ:
----- 9 / 258 -----
Google Books:
## p. 5 (#9) ################################################
#ScholarlyEditing
I compared the OCRed full text of:
- 2 copies of the same edition, both from the Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ)
- a second edition, 🇩🇪"neu bearbeitete Ausgabe", digitized by Google Books, available on @hathitrust.bsky.social
I'm the #DH person; someone else will do the #TextualScholarship
It's the only tool still standing out of 3 reviewed in 2020 by Torsten Roeder for RIDE: A Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources...
Does anyone know what happened to the venerable Juxta or to Variance Viewer developed by Nico Balbach at @uni-wuerzburg.de?
#DH project graveyard
"Highlighting of text variants: The working environment determines the differences between two matched segments and highlights them using the following color scheme: green for insertions, blue for substitutions and red for deletions. Additionally, the corresponding text sections in the remaining versions are being highlighted in grey. Through the use of a variety of filter- and color-settings, the user can tailor the text comparison to his own liking, e.g. hiding all changes that purely concern punctuation." https://lera.uzi.uni-halle.de/
Started playing around today with LERA, a collation tool developed at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. It's very promising!
Thanks to @poeckelmann.bsky.social for setting up the instance so quickly!
lera.uzi.uni-halle.de
#DH #TextualScholarship #BookHistory #ScholarlyEditing
Ah, had I waited 10 years, I might not have needed to do all that encoding myself!
Went down to the level of the paragraph to collate 2 🇬🇧 translations alongside their 🇫🇷 source text. When parts weren't translated, I segmented even more!
It took—as most #DH projects—way more time than I anticipated😅
Is @henninghansen.bsky.social still around sometimes?
I'm happy you liked it!
Thank God cause I had completely forgotten about the deadline!
I did have more of a chance to browse Utrecht's book stores this summer after my Dutch-language state exams 😃
This is Paper Moon...
I sadly didn't have much time this time in Utrecht: needed to get back to Nijmegen for my neighbour's PhD defense... But Sophie did invite me for lunch at Bakkerswinkel, which I realized @renskehoff.bsky.social had previously brought me to!
It now realize it was also @drsonjakleij.bsky.social's class 😛
Thanks for the opportunity, it was great fun!
If all goes well, this will be my #BookHistory conference season in 2026 🤞
Médias19
18-20 May @ Montpellier
@sharpweb.org
7-9 July online
no CfP
@rs4vp.org
23-25 July @tcddublin.bsky.social
🗓️ 1 Nov 👉 rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
#ESPRit2026
9-11 Sep @ kbr.be
🗓️ 7 Jan 👉 events.vub.be/periodicals-...
Another #BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies CFP: this time for #RSVP2026!
🗓️ Applications Due November 1
It's out, #BookHistory and #PeriodicalStudies peeps!
Here's the CFP for the 14th annual ESPRit conference: “Periodicals and the World”
🗓️ Deadline is 7 January 2026
👉 events.vub.be/periodicals-...
Ah ben oui, 'ga don' ça! Cool!
C'est drôle que tu aies vu l'appel à communications avant qu'il n'ait été envoyé à la liste de diffusion (par courriel) d'ESPRit (il y a deux jours)... Je ne comprends pas comment ils font leurs communications, 😛
J'espère qu'on pourra se voir là et à Montpellier!
Looking forward to guest lecture about #BookHistory to Sophie's class in Utrecht!
You can have a look at the slides...
It's based on my dataset on the reprinting of first-wave Gothic novels in the 19th century 👉 popnewseries.hypotheses.org/574
And @goedelf.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! 🥳
Simon Rosenberg has presented and written on something like what you're describing (how the content of video games refers to realities outside the game).
Sadly, his article is behind a paywall, but I can put you in touch with him if you want to read it!
After all, the most popular talk at #SHARP2017 held at @uvic.ca was given by Hannah McGregor (@sfu.ca) on "What is the New Media Middlebrow? Podcasting & Digital Sentimental"
The room was full when I arrived, so couldn't hear it live, but thankfully @kmcdono.bsky.social and others live-tweeted it!
Oh, thanks for this very relevant comment! Sadly, we don't talk enough about video games at #bookhistory conferences, though I would argue the making and playing of video games could be one of our objects of study...
Looking forward to #ESPRit2026 being closer by in Brussels on 9-11 September at the beautiful Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (KBR).
The CFP will be circulated by the end of the month!
#ESPRit2025
*The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals* (2023), edited by Marysa Demoor, Cedric Van Dijck, and Birgit van Puymbroeck, @edinburghup.bsky.social
We're closing #ESPRit2025 by celebrating the 2024 ESPRit Prize: *The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals* (2023) ed. by Marysa Demoor, Cedric Van Dijck & Birgit van Puymbroeck @edinburghup.bsky.social
The committee was unanimous in their decision, calling it a “genuine tour de force”
María Isabel Hernández Toribio has been studying TripAdvisor since 2016 with her Italian colleague Laura Mariottini.
In 2020, they tackled advertising on Twitter.
In her keynote, she referenced a figure from the #OpenAccess article below.
#ESPRit2025
hdl.handle.net/11573/1689697