Workshop: Friday 24 Feb 2023, 10:00–16:00, Online and in Cambridge
Hosted by Cambridge Digital Humanities and the Unlocking Digital Texts project
The Unlocking Digital Texts project aims to create a draft specification for an Interoperable Text Framework as a means for accessing and delivering texts that are stored in a variety of extant formats. We believe that ITF has the potential to open up textual collections and transform how individuals use, and interact with, digital texts, allowing them to create, arrange, annotate, embed and share digital texts (either whole or in part) just as the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) opened up image collections.
The project website can be found at https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/article/unlocking-digital-texts. More specific details on our approach and goals can be found in a position paper here: https://osf.io/u6vb4. Project activities are managed using the Open Science Framework https://osf.io/r78gx/.
For ITF to work, it needs to be able to support not only the widest possible range of materials possible but also how digital texts are used (and how people would like to use them). Do you work on, or with, electronic texts? We want to hear from you. What do you need and expect digital texts or editions to be able to do? What challenges (e.g. language, writing system, script, genre, or any other aspect of them) do your materials present when turning them into or delivering them as digital texts or editions?
Please contact us on mjh39@cam.ac.uk or neil.jefferies@bodleian.ox.ac.uk if you are interested in joining either in person or online as space is limited.
