Abstrakt
The workshop consisted in a "hackathon": the students included in the DEMM project (20 students from 4 different countries) brought their own material (the editions they have encoded in TEI XML following the Second Week), and collaborated with computer scientists (web developers hired for the occasion) to prepare live, functional prototypes of their editions, which were eventually published on the DEMM website. To encourage collective work, the students collaborated in groups, each working with a computer scientist/developer to focus on a different aspect of scholarly digital editions (namely text/image relationship, named entities, textual variance, and parallel texts).
Beyond an introduction to the practical aspects of scholarly digital editing, this course aimed at developing the students' "soft skills". Through methods inspired from Agile Software Development, they learned to communicate with - and formulate their needs to - people with a very different professional background, as well as to manage their time and prioritize their project when resources and time are limited.
Also 8 supervisors from the countries included in the project as well as external specialists took part in the workshop and provided feedback to the students.