The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands is organizing the first of DiXiT\u2019s three conventions, September 16-18 2015<\/strong> in The Hague<\/strong>, the Netherlands. The convention will be an informal meeting where the DiXiT research fellows will present their first results in interactive sessions. We anticipate a lively get-together bristling with new ideas, and we hope that many of those working in the field of scholarly editing and digital humanities will gather here. In order to broaden the scope and diversity of the meeting, the convention organisers are issuing this call.<\/span><\/p>\n While the focus of the convention is on technology, software and standards, topics for the sessions may include anything related to scholarly digital editing, such as:<\/p>\n We encourage exploratory papers. Early-career scholars are welcome.<\/p>\n We ask those interested in presenting a twenty-minute paper to mail their proposal to congres@huygens.knaw.nl<\/a>. The proposal should include:<\/p>\n Dates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Keynotes will be given by Leo Jansen, editor of the acclaimed edition of Van Gogh\u2019s letters<\/a>,\u00a0 Laurent Romary<\/a>, director of DARIAH<\/a>, and Lorna Hughes<\/a>, chair in digital humanities \u00a0at the University of London\u2019s School of Advanced Study<\/a> (SAS).<\/p>\n The meeting is preceded by two parallel workshops on September 15: Net 7<\/a> (Italy) runs a workshop about semantic enrichment of digital library content; Huygens ING runs a workshop on TEI and neighbouring standards.<\/p>\n Information about registration for the convention and workshops will follow.<\/p>\n\n
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