publications
publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.
2017
- Blogpost
ER1 - Reminiscing on a Year of DiXiTWout DillenOct 2017 - Blogpost Report: Historical Source Edition 2.0 conferenceWout DillenOct 2017
2016
- Blogpost Digital Scholarly Editing and Memory InstitutionsWout DillenOct 2016
- Blogpost Bridging the Babel of Textual Criticism: Lexicographical Approaches to Encompassing a Multilingual Research FieldWout DillenMay 2016
2015
- BlogpostA Lexicon of Scholarly EditingWout DillenFeb 2015Blogpost
- Patrick Sahle: Digitale Editionsformen: zum Umgang mit der Überlieferung unter den Bedingungen des MedienwandelsWout DillenFeb 2015Review Article
- Journal IssueTexts Beyond Borders: Multilingualism and Textual ScholarshipFeb 2015Variants 9
- StyleStretching the Boundaries of Narrativity on Stage: a Narratological Analysis of Paula Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz and Hot ’N’ ThrobbingWout DillenStyle, Feb 2015All rights reserved
- SBT/A"I CAN MAKE NOTHING OF IT" : Beckett’s Collaboration with Merlin on the English MolloyPim Verhulst and Wout DillenSamuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui: an Annual Bilingual Review, Feb 2015All rights reserved
When the English Molloy was published in 1955, jointly by Olympia (Paris) and Grove (New York), a long and difficult translation process had ended, on which Beckett worked both alone and together with Merlin and Patrick Bowles. This article is the first attempt to approach this somewhat neglected topic by way of manuscripts, notebooks, letters and other related materials, in order to establish a basic chronology of the English Molloy. In so doing, our purpose is to shed more light on a relatively obscure period in Beckett’s literary career and examine critically the role of each party involved.
- Manuscritica "(Hiatus in MS.)" : towards a TEI compliant typology of textual lacunae in Samuel Beckett’s manuscriptsWout DillenManuscritica, Feb 2015
As is the case with so many first drafts, some of Beckett’s manuscripts still contain gaps: zones in the text that are either left completely blank, or are otherwise indicated to be filled in at a later stage in the writing process. Such gaps are interesting milestones for any genetic critic, because they may indicate a hesitation on the author’s part during the writing process: a name not yet decided on, a word or phrase that needs fine-tuning, etc. In Beckett’s case, these gaps are especially significant, because they feature so prominently in his published works as well: from the startling “(Hiatus in MS.)” in his early novel Watt to the phrase “and here a word he could not catch” in his last prose text Stirrings Still, narrative pauses, interruptions, and false starts have undoubtedly become a leitmotif throughout Beckett’s oeuvre. Encoding Beckett’s own hiatuses for a digital edition of his manuscripts, however, poses a problem. While the TEI’s
element may intuitively seem like the perfect match, the description of the element is in fact more closely related to the textual feature we wish to encode. And although these gaps/spaces will invariably differ in appearance (a blank space; an indented string of characters; a symbol of some kind; etc.) and motivation (inadequacy; indecisiveness; etc.), the TEI does not yet allow either of these elements to be classified further through the @type attribute. Using the manuscripts of Beckett’s Malone meurt as a case study, this paper makes a case for the TEI’s element to be added to the att.typed class (a feature request for which was approved while writing this paper), and makes a first attempt at a typology of Beckett’s use of hiatuses in his manuscripts.</p> </div> </div> </div> </li> Conf. Proc.Sequentiality in Genetic Digital Scholarly Editions: Models for Encoding the Dynamics of the Writing ProcessWout DillenIn Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts, Feb 2015Conf. Proc.What You C(apture) is What You Get: Authenticity and Quality Control in Digitization PracticesWout DillenIn Advances in Digital Scholarly Editing: Papers Presented at the DiXiT Conferences in The Hague, Cologne, and Antwerp, Leiden, Feb 2015EcdoticaIl Lexicon of Scholarly Editing: una bussola nella Babele delle tradizioni filologicheWout Dillen, Elena Spadini, and Monica ZanardoEcdotica, Feb 2015All rights reservedReview Article Litteraturbanken: the Swedish Literature BankMats Dahlström and Wout DillenRIDE: A review journal for digital editions and resources, Feb 2015Litteraturbanken (The Swedish Literature Bank) is a freely available digital collection of Swedish literary works, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature. It is the result of a cooperation between literary and linguistic scholars, research libraries, and editorial societies and academies. The collection consists not only of digital facsimiles, but of ocr’ed, proof-checked and TEI-encoded transcriptions as well, including EPUB and HTML versions of texts, and in addition scholarly presentations and didactic introductions to works and authors in the collection. It is also being used as a publishing platform for ongoing Swedish scholarly editing projects. Litteraturbanken currently comprises more than 2.000 works, mounting up to more than 100 million of machine-readable words. Litteraturbanken‘s main weak spot is transparency; it does not openly provide satisfactory ways to ensure the editors accountability for the edited texts and images. As a whole, however, Litteraturbanken is an impressive endeavour and paves the way for fruitful cooperation and massive data exchange with e.g. computational linguistics and bibliographic databases
Conf. Proc.Editing Copyrighted Materials: on Sharing What You CanWout DillenIn Advances in Digital Scholarly Editing: Papers Presented at the DiXiT Conferences in The Hague, Cologne, and Antwerp, Leiden, Feb 2015All rights reservedConf. ReportDigital Scholarly Editing: Theory, Practice, Methods: Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship in conjunction with the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT), University of Antwerp, 5-7 October 2016Wout Dillen and Dirk Van HulleFeb 2015All rights reservedEd. Vol.Advances in Digital Scholarly Editing: Papers Presented at the DiXiT Conferences in The Hague, Cologne, and AntwerpFeb 2015All rights reservedJournal Issue VariaFeb 2015Variants 14; ISSN: 1573-3084Variants Refining our Conceptions of ’Access’ in Digital Scholarly Editing: Reflections on a Qualitative Survey on Inclusive Design and DisseminationMerisa Martinez, Wout Dillen, Elli Bleeker, and 2 more authorsVariants: the Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, Feb 2015In this paper we explore layered conceptions of access and accessibility as they relate to the theory and praxis of digital scholarly editing. To do this, we designed and disseminated a qualitative survey on five key themes: dissemination; Open Access and licensing; access to code; web accessibility; and diversity. Throughout the article we engage in cultural criticism of the discipline by sharing results from the survey, identifying how the community talks about and performs access, and pinpointing where improvements in praxis could be made. In the final section of this paper we reflect on different ways to utilize the survey results when critically designing and disseminating digital scholarly editions, propose a call to action, and identify avenues of future research.
Conf Proc.Web Accessibility in Digital Scholarly Editing: Considerations from a Survey on Inclusive Design and DisseminationWout DillenIn Digital Humanities 2019: Conference Proceedings, Feb 2015All rights reservedConf. Proc.IIIFarm. Teaching Image Interoperability on a Raspberry Pi Network of IIIF-Compliant Image ServersWout Dillen and Joshua SchaubleIn Digital Humanities 2019: Conference Proceedings, Feb 2015All rights reservedIJDHOn Edited Archives and Archived EditionsWout DillenInternational Journal of Digital Humanities, Feb 2015All rights reservedBuilding on a longstanding terminological discussion in the field of textual scholarship, this essay explores the archival and editorial potential of the digital scholarly edition. Following Van Hulle and Eggert, the author argues that in the digital medium these traditionally distinct activities now find the space they need to complement and reinforce one another. By critically examining some of the early and more recent theorists and adaptors of this relatively new medium, the essay aims to shed a clearer light on some of its strengths and pitfalls. To conclude, the essay takes the discussion further by offering a broader reflection on the difficulties of providing a ‘definitive’ archival base transcription of especially handwritten materials, questioning if this should be something to aspire to for the edition in the first place.
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The Editor in the Interface: Guiding the User through Texts and ImagesWout DillenIn Scholarly Digital Editions as Interfaces, Norderstedt, Feb 2015In a way, the Graphical User Interface (GUI) can be regarded as the digital scholarly edition’s new paratext: not exactly part of the edited text itself, it still has an undeni- able impact on the way the user reads and understands the edition. This makes the interface an important place for the editor to convey her views on the materials the edition has to offer. Therefore, this paper focusses on the role the editor of the digital scholarly edition plays in guiding the user through its data, and helping her shape her interpretation of those data – arguing all the while that it is exactly in the interface that these interactions take place. Starting from Mats Dahlström’s proposal for digital scholarly editors to leave Ariadne threads to guide their users through the textual labyrinth of their digital scholarly editions, this paper suggests that Dante’s Divine Comedy might make a more appropriate allegory for the editorial model. Taking a cue from Dante’s ‘Virgil’ character, the editor may prefer to remain in the background of the edition, encouraging the user to be fully immersed in the edition’s data – only to quietly step more and more in the foreground as the user moves deeper and deeper into the edition and could arguably use more explicit guidance. After taking a more theoretical approach to this topic, the paper illustrates the kind of editorial decisions that may be involved while designing a digital scholarly edition by taking the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP) as a case study. Walking the reader through the many tools and functionalities the BDMP has to offer, this paper explains how this editorial model would apply to the project, focusing especially on the changes the edition’s graphical user interface underwent as it was redesigned in November 2015.
Conf. Proc. DSHDigital Scholarly Editing Within the Boundaries of Copyright RestrictionsWout Dillen and Vincent NeytDigital Scholarship in the Humanities, Feb 2015All rights reservedOne of the great advantages the digital medium has to offer the field of scholarly editing is that it makes its products much easier to distribute. No longer bound to a shelf, the Digital Scholarly Edition has the potential to reach a much wider audience than a printed edition could. To a certain extent, however, the nature of the materials textual scholars are working with dictates the perimeters within which this dissemination can take place. When working with modern manuscripts, for instance, copyright restrictions may limit the extent to which a project can distribute its resources. In an academic climate where open access is not only becoming a standard, but in some cases even a requirement for receiving funding, such limitations may be perceived as problematic. In this article, we argue that even within the boundaries of copyright restrictions there can still be room to produce and distribute the results of textual scholarship. Therefore, the article zooms in on the way in which different Digital Scholarly Editions of copyrighted materials deal with this issue, using the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP; www.beckettarchive.org) and Woolf Online (www.woolfonline.com) as case studies. To conclude, we investigate other strategies that may be used to share as much research data as we are allowed to, e.g. by sharing metadata and ancillary data, or by using the fair use doctrine to circumvent the problem. Case studies used for this aspect of the article include ModNets (www.modnets.org), the BDMP Encoding Manual (www.beckettarchive.org/encodingmanual), the Lexicon of Scholarly Editing (http://uahost.uantwerpen.be/lse), and the Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury (FWEET; www.fweet.org).
Journal Issue Journal Issue PhD ThesisDigital Scholarly Editing for the Genetic Orientation : the Making of a Genetic Edition of Samuel Beckett’s WorksWout DillenUniversiteit Antwerpen, Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, Departement Letterkunde, Feb 2015Conf. Proc. Digitization and ExogenesisRonan Crowley, Tom De Keyser, Wout Dillen, and 2 more authorsIn DHBenelux 2015: Book of Abstracts, Antwerp, Feb 2015