• Date: 24th–28th July 2023
• Location: online via Zoom
• Invited are students, but also historians of any qualification level, from BA to professorship, archivists, and all other interested parties

Digital editing offers a multitude of new possibilities for the representation and evaluation of historical sources. However, it is often difficult to get started in this field due to the multitude of possibilities, tools and resources. In cooperation with the CAU Kiel, the FGHO is offering a summer school on this topic to facilitate access to digital editing for newcomers and advanced users.

The summer school offers the opportunity to get to know common tools, standards and working methods of digital editing. At the beginning of the week, the focus will be on the software Transkribus for the digital transcription of historical manuscripts. From the middle of the week, other tools for digitally editing historical sources and texts will be discussed.

The contents will first be presented by experts experienced in teaching digital editions. Afterwards, the participants will try out the tools and techniques and apply them by means of concrete exercises. Participants are required to bring their own laptops.

At the end of the summer school, edition projects in various stages will be presented. The focus will be on the approaches and methods of the projects. The presentation of the projects – preferably at an early stage – and the exchange with the expert audience can be used to obtain feedback and suggestions and to discuss different implementation and solution possibilities.

For participation in the summer school, please send a short letter of motivation (½ page), indicating previous knowledge and contact points with the topic of ‘digital editing’.

For an application for a project presentation, we ask for an approximately 1-page project description, from which in particular the considerations for digital implementation can be seen.

Please send both your letter of motivation and any project description by email to hilfskraefte-wiso [at] histosem.uni-kiel.de.

• Day 1 (Monday, 24th July)
  • 9:30–12:00: Introdction to the Summerschool
    ‘What do Digital Humanities and Digital History mean for historical scholarship today? What motivates us to do the Summer School?’ (Gerald Schwedler/Angela Huang)
    Introductions: Speakers/Participants
    Basic Transkribus and how to get started: Installing tools and creating profiles: Transkribus (READ-COOP), Nopaque (University of Bielefeld)
  • 14:00–16:30: Background and preparation
    ‘READ-COOP-SCE and Transkribus: background, projects and products’ (READ-COOP)
  • 17:00–18:00: Project presentations
    ‘Read!Hanse.Sources.’ (FGHO: Angela Huang/Vivien Popken)
    Transkribus and late medieval accounts (Gerald Schwedler)
• Day 2 (Tuesday, 25th July)
  • 9:30–12:00: Introduction to working with Transkribus (READ-COOP)
    With prepared exercise material (Hanse/late medieval accounts)
    Group 1: Transkribus-Basics
    Group 2: Advanced
  • 14:00–16:30: Practice (READ-COOP)
    With prepared exercise material (Hanse/late medieval accounts)
    Group 1: Transkribus-Basics 
    Group 2: Advanced
  • 17:00–18:00: Project presentation: eScriptorium (Simon Gabay)
  • from 19:00: Virtual Apéro
• Day 3 (Wednesday, 26th July)
  • 9:30–12:00: Transkribus II
  • 14:00–16:30: Practice: Practice on own or provided practice material (3 groups)
  • 17:00–18:00: Project presentation: nodegoat (Lab 1100)
• Day 4 (Thursday, 27th July)
  • 9:30–12:00: Introduction to digital text analysis
    ‘Making texts transparent: automatic text processing with the platform nopaque’ (Silke Schwandt, Tobias Hodel)
  • 14:00–16:30: Practice: Practice on own or provided practice material (»The Flow«)
  • 17:00–18:00: International panel discussion on digital infrastructure, requirements (FAIR) and digital workflows
• Day 5 (Friday, 28th July)
  • 9:30–10:30: Open forum: presentation of own projects & discussion on planned projects
  • 10:30–11:30: Supervised training: Practice on prepared material in small groups with tutors
  • 12:00–13:00: Closing: Feedback, confirmation of participation