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1.3 Networking with DSE specialists

Just as it is important to orientate oneself towards exemplary editions, it is also important to network with the DSE research communities, be it on a local, national or international level.

Networking may seem easier than it is. To date, there is no comprehensive overview of all institutions relevant to DSE in German-speaking countries, let alone in Europe or worldwide. Instead of listing individual institutions or chairs (which would have to remain incomplete in the long term), reference is made here to existing collections and umbrella organisations which, taken together, which provide a good overview of the German-speaking world. We would be happy to expand these references (please contact the authors).

DSE competence centres

The e-editiones association is an international community specifically focussed on the DSE tool TEI-Publisher. In a slack-channel and regular online community-meetings questions about the tool as well as more general questions about DSe workflows can be discussed.

German-speaking countries

The international Institute for Documentology and Editorial Studies i-d-e can serve as a contact point for various questions and maintains a list of its cooperation partnerships and members.

Linked to i-d-e is the journal RIDE, A review journal for digital editions and resources, which regularly publishes reviews on digital editions and similar DH topics.

Austria

The KONDE Weißbuch provides an overview of mostly Austrian institutions.

Switzerland

The Zentrum Digitale Editionen & Editionsanalytik ZDE der Universität Zürich offers an important collection of services in German-speaking Switzerland, organised by workflow phase and supplemented with relevant tools.

Experience from the showcase edition

This project has worked closely with the ZDE from the outset and has thus been able to draw many ideas for the showcase edition through networking with ongoing DSE projects. Participation and networking at DSE-specific conferences such as "Open up DSE" have also significantly advanced the project.

Germany

In Germany, one possible contact is Text+, a national research consortium that offers various services for the scientific handling of digital text data. The national research consortium NFDI4Culture has similar services, but its focus is not solely text-based, but is aimed at data on various media forms of culture.

Digital Humanities communities of interest

National and international networks that primarily pursue research policy goals (and only marginally also methodological and technical issues) are listed below. These are not DSE-specific communities of interest, but they do have various competences in this subject area.

  • DARIAH-CH: The Swiss node of the pan-European research infrastructure Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities.

  • DARIAH-EU: The DARIAH umbrella organisation that coordinates the national DARIAH consortia in Europe.

  • digital humanities in German-speaking countries: The professional association for DH research in German-speaking countries.

  • EADH, the European Association for Digital Humanities and its associate organisations.

  • ADHO, the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations.