The Impact of Scholarly Editions on a Global Scale
First International Symposium of the Forum Editorik Göttingen June 13 to 15 2024, Göttingen, Germany
Thursday, June 13, 16.00 – 18.00, Alfred-Hessel-Saal, State and University Library Göttingen, Historical Building, Papendiek 14, 1st Floor
Thomas Kaufmann (Göttingen, Germany)
Welcome
Patrick Sahle (Wuppertal, Germany)
Round Table Discussion
Friday, June 14, 10.00 – 12.00, Alfred-Hessel-Saal
Section I: Scholarly Editing and its Impact through Time and Space
Riccardo Pozzo (Rome, Italy)
Kant’s New Academy Edition and Beyond
Tunde Ope-Davies (Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos, Nigeria)
Tradition, Textuality and *Transmediality: A Digital Scholarly Editing Approach to the study of Selected Early Literary Texts in Nigeria
Friday, June 14, 13.00 – 15.00, Alfred-Hessel-Saal
Section II: Scholarly Editing and Beyond – Impact and Interconnectivity
Sukanta Chaudhuri (Kolkata, India)
SHABDAKALPA: A Historical Dictionary of the Bengali Language
Spandana Bhowmik (Bengaluru, Karnataka, India)
Pathdarpan: The Multimedia "Mirror of the Text"
Friday, June 14, 15.30 – 17.30, Alfred-Hessel-Saal
Section III: Measuring Impact
Elizabeth Umoh Adetola (Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa)
Altmetrics and Societal Impact of Research Output
Hannes Kahl (Trier, Germany) and Oliver Bräckel (Leipzig, Germany)
"(geklickt ˄ gelesen) ˅ (geklickt ˄ ⌐ gelesen) ˅ (geklickt ˄ verwendet ..."
Friday, June 14, 18.00 – 20.00, Paulinerkirche, Papendiek 14
Public Conference Lecture
Gimena Del Rio Riande (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
An Overview of the many Impacts of a Scholarly Edition
Saturday, June 15, 10.00 – 14.00, Alfred-Hessel-Saal
Section IV: Increasing Impact
Anna Cappellotto (Verona) and Raffaele Cioffi (Naples, Italy)
Increasing Web Accessibility of DSEs: First Insights
Eva L. Wyss (Koblenz) and Andra Rapp (Darmstadt, Germany)
Connecting Academia with the Public: Exploring Citizen Science Meeting Formats to Engage Audiences with Letters
Wout Dillen (Borås, Sweden)
Small-Scale Digital Scholarly Editions in the Classroom. A Minimal Approach to Digital Pedagogy using GitHub Pages and GitHub Wikis
Friedrich Meins, Marie Millutat (Göttingen, Germany)
Closing Discussion
For online or in-person attendance, please register by June 12 at editorik@sub.uni-goettingen.de.
Forum Editorik Göttingen – International Symposium
Scholarly editions play an important role in the humanities, but their actual impact on specific academic disciplines as well as on society as a whole is largely unknown. This is at least partly due to methodological problems. Common bibliometrical indicators (such as the notorious Journal Impact Factor or the h-index) do not provide any insight into the quality of an edition’s reception or its relevance for a specific community. While it is easy to measure the traffic on the web portal of a digital edition, interpreting this data remains a real challenge. Qualitative studies (e.g. based on usability tests) have so far been limited to individual projects. Yet more comprehensive and more precise methods of measuring the impact of scholarly editions are urgently needed in order to shape future projects.
Measuring the impact of scholarly editions can not only serve to justify future funding in increasingly utilitarian research environments, but is also essential for studying the social, political, and cultural function(s) of scholarly editions, which is of growing interest, for instance, in disciplines such as history, cultural sciences, literary sciences, musicology, art history, and regional sciences. Recent years have seen a growing number of contributions dealing with the role of archives, editions, and text corpora especially in the context of the construction and standardisation of national languages, of nation building, of colonialism and de-colonisation, as well as for the role for the shared cultural and communicative memories both of distinct communities and of humankind as a whole.
Editors increasingly strive to reach larger, more diverse and inclusive audiences, as they face far- reaching practical and ethical questions: how can we develop and evaluate strategies to improve the accessibility and increase the reach of scholarly editions in a globalised academic context? To improve international exchange and facilitate mutual learning in the scholarly community on these topics, the Forum Editorik Göttingen will host its first international symposium (hybrid) from June 13 to 15, 2024.
We invite researchers to submit their abstracts (up to 500 words) for a 30-min contribution (online or in person) related to the following areas of interest:
- Impact measurement of scholarly editions on a global scale (for example on suitable bibliometrical, social scientific, computer scientific methods)
- Qualitative and/or exemplary studies on the usability of scholarly editions and their impact on cultures and societies worldwide (political, historical, philological, linguistic, literary etc.)
- Measures to improve the impact and general accessibility of scholarly editions, especially through university teaching, and with a broader outlook on the global community
Please send your abstracts of up to 500 words as a PDF to editorik@sub.uni-goettingen.de with symposium24 as reference line until January 15th, 2024 (11:59 p.m.CET). Please do also indicate if you plan to attend the symposium in person or online. We will inform you whether your submission has been accepted until March 1, 2024. The Forum Editorik will cover travel and lodging costs (100 € per night, up to three nights; train tickets 2nd class/ flight tickets economy class) for all accepted speakers.