“Papiers à Mr. Schlegel”. Ein Blick in die neue Schlegel-Edition
“Nur leider weiß ich nicht recht viel schönes zu schreiben, überdem ist es heute morgen hier noch so kalt, daß mein Witz gefriert.” August Wilhelm von Schlegel an Johann Carl Fürchtegott Schlegel,...
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Learning by blogging
The contribution published yesterday by 2 of my B.A. students on this blog is a good opportunity to comment (again) on the fact that blogging is rather a science than a technique and, more accurately...
View ArticleBattle plan for the winter
First of all and in order to dissipate any misunderstanding that may be involved by the reading of this otherwise fine and informative blog post, I would like to specify that my mind is not made up yet...
View ArticleTeaching teachings
I am teaching DH this term, which is quite exciting. Since it is a temporary job with no dedicated classes or modules constraining me into specific themes, I was creative when it came to suggesting...
View ArticleResisting networks
This has been fun, historical networks, but we have to say goodbye - at least partly. Class after class, I have tried to tame historical networks and their visualizations, only to come to the...
View ArticleOn text genesis, hot water and historical depth
While preparing my presentation for next Wednesday (which I announced under the emphatic title “The digital methods facing the challenge of text genesis”), I had to realize once more how difficult it...
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Find your comet
I haven’t blogged in what feels like a very long time. In the past weeks, I have given the final classes of my locum professorship and returned to a life where I take my bike to go to work (even in...
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Juno at the core
Mendelssohn-Remise Berlin, Jägerstrasse. The conference on Henriette Herz ended today in the Mendelssohn-Remise, a location situated opposite the Academy of Sciences and only two houses away from the...
View ArticleOn the ethics of self-plagiarism (how to roll your stone)
Imagine that you would be copy-editing a volume or a thematic issue of a journal. Imagine that there would be somewhere an incomplete footnote, a missing bibliographical element, and you would google...
View ArticlePractical intellectuals
During the Napoleon Wars, French (invader) troops were dispatched in the homes of Berlin inhabitants. Some of these cohabitations went well, others were depicted as being quite catastrophic. But the...
View ArticleWant to help refugees? Here a few ideas
Here’s some news about the German classes in Wilmersdorf – a follow-up to my two previous posts, with a few more details on how it works concretely.The structure in the courses running in parallel is...
View ArticleOpen Access to Quality
There is this nagging problem in literary studies. How do we teach our students to make the difference between a googlebooks scan and a good digital edition? In order to avoid admitting that they don’t...
View ArticleThose invisible forces
In her brilliant closing keynote of the TEI conference in Lyon, Charlotte Roueché exposed research questions in such a way that they seemed inseparable from what one could consider are infrastructural...
View ArticleA survey, a volume, a talk
Although the pleasure will be brief, I will savor it as I should: I will be at the Historical Institute in Paris next week to talk about epistemology of the Digital Humanities. Not only will I be in...
View Articlethe 280th
This is the 280th post on this blog. Also, the pdf of our edition has 1437 pages (including those that are not finalized enough to be published yet), the class script I want to transform into a book...
View ArticleBrand new (virtual) worlds
I started sorting my (currently 5) professional construction sites today in order to rationalize my work hours. I will be active in WP3 of the PARTHENOS project, also in WP2 of the IPERION project; I...
View ArticlePossessing books
The current debate on Open Access often weirdly focuses on the question whether we want to give in to the poor ethics of people who want books to disappear. First, it is not true; second, most of OA...
View ArticleName it!
Letters and texts moved to Trier a while ago now. We feel very well taken care of in our new home. After getting everything to work and all, it was time to settle on a domain name – for good. We had...
View ArticleOn St John’s Day
There is writing and there is making readable. The difference between both is about the time that elapsed since my last post, in which I fine-tuned the main part of the habilitation document, added...
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Cultural Heritage Data Reuse Charter: the Poster to the concept!
The Data Reuse Charter is moving to a new stage. The mockup has evolved and we have a beautiful poster (realised by Sophia Zeil) to show you what this is about. Enjoy and don’t hesitate to ask...
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