Collaborating at Speed: The Team Behind the Living Handbook of Digital Scholarly Editing
Digital scholarly editions open up new possibilities for accessing, analysing, and reusing cultural texts. At the same time, they require complex conceptual, technical, and legal decisions. Our upcoming three-day book sprint at the German Historical Institute in Paris (March 4-6, 2026), thanks to the support of DARIAH-ATRIUM, Observatoire des Humanités Numériques de PSL, takes up these challenges: a group of established experts will collaboratively write a structured, practice-oriented guide covering all stages of creating a digital scholarly edition. The result will be published as a living handbook.
Before the sprint begins, we introduce the contributors, and organisers (in alphabetical order). Each presents themselves with three hashtags and a short statement highlighting their expertise and their perspective on digital scholarly editing.
The Contributors
Floriane Chiffoleau
#DigitalHumanities #OpenScience #WorldWarsHistory
Floriane is a post-doctorate researcher in the ObTIC team at Sorbonne University, working on the digital edition of the AVH cultural heritage library. Dedicated to working on digital scholarly editions for a few years now, she aims at always improving her way to do it, finding new methods and tools, and exploring the challenges that can arise.
Giulia D’Agostino
#DigitalEditions #ManuscriptStudies #HistoricalLinguistics
Giulia is a Postdoc in Computer Philology and Medieval Studies at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. She is interested in Old Germanic Languages and Literatures and is especially fascinated by medieval manuscripts. She values digital scholarly editing as a way of preserving and representing fragile cultural artifacts while also generating new knowledge and research questions in the process.
Janyce Desiderio
#DigitalHumanities #TextualScholarship #OpenScience
Janyce is a research engineer in Latin philology and digital humanities: she works within the ERC LiTeRA at Sorbonne University on fragmentary Latin grammarians and develops digital infrastructures to model complex textual traditions. She approaches digital scholarly editing not only as a change of medium, but as a transformation in how we conceptualize textual transmission and scholarly intervention. For her, a digital edition should not be a static online book, but an open and evolving research environment: one that makes editorial choices explicit, structures textual data in reusable ways and enables further analysis.
Caecilia-Desiree Hein
#Digital Humanities #LatinLiterature #OpenScience
Caecilia Hein studied Latin, Ancient Greek and History and worked for over 10 years as a teacher at a university. She ist now the director of the Research Library of Reformation Studies in Wittenberg. She edited late Medieval Latin texts, likes editing unknown texts in digital world.
Kilian Hensen
#ResearchInfrastructure #ResearchDataManagement #Interoperability
I am a research facilitator at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (University of Cologne), working in the NFDI consortium Text+ where I coordinate the Text+ Consulting service and a registry for scholarly editions, making editions findable and interoperable. As a research field, digital scholarly editing produces a broad spectrum of scholarly editions, including print-based, hybrid, and born-digital ones. I see scholarly editions as large knowledge bases: the goal is to connect the knowledge they contain, improve findability, and make the people and software involved visible.
Loic Jeanson
#DigitalHumanities #DataModelling #Interdisciplinarity
Loïc is first assistant (/Premier Assistant///Oberassistent/) in the Department of Computer Science for the Humanities, in the Arts Faculty of the University of Lausanne. He develops tools and methods for the documentation, study, publishing, archiving and outreach of material cultural heritage objects. He sees digital approaches as a particularly relevant infrastructure towards interdisciplinarity and open science.
Servanne Monjour
#digitalliterature #mediastudies #cooking
I’m a lecturer (maîtresse de conférence) at Sorbonne University, department of Littératures françaises et comparée. I mainly develop collective and alternative writing practices (single source publishing, permapublishing) in order to support the production of knowledge commons.
Morgane Pica
#DigitalHumanities #intellectualHistory #HSSengineering
Morgane Pica is a design engineer for Biblissima + within the Pôle Document Numérique team in Caen, where she works on practical solutions for interdisciplinary cooperation in digital scholarly edition. With a background including literature, history and digital humanities, Morgane Pica is very sensitive to the FAIR principles, which makes her particularly attentive to metadata and logical structuration, before disciplinary enrichment is added. She also believes that “scientific” and “technical” work should not be divided, as a digital structuration should reflect the scientist’s analysis of the edited text.
Bastian Politycki
#DigitalHumanities #OpenScience #LiteraryStudies
Bastian Politycki is a research engineer at the SSRQ (Collection of Swiss Law Sources), where he is responsible for all aspects of the project’s Digital Humanities component. At the end of 2025, he also joined the Chair for Digital Humanities (Patrick Sahle / Wuppertal) as a Postdoctoral Researcher. As a trained scholar in scholarly editing, his interests include the theory of digital editions and their practical implications. He is dedicated to sharing insights and best practices from diverse projects with his students, aiming to foster the long-term advancement of digital scholarly editing.s.
Jesko Reiling
#literature #library #nature
Jesko works at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich and heads the department “Digital Production and Platforms”, which is currently producing several digital editions. Good editions are always a team effort, and digital editions should be among the core tasks of every memory institution.
Nanette Rissler-Pipka
#DigitalHumanities #ResearchInfrastructure #Romanistik
Nanette has a background in French and Spanish literary studies which she combines with Digital Humanities since 2014. After professional positions at computing centres and a research library, she is now responsible for Digital Humanities and research data management at the Max Weber Foundation’s central office in Bonn. With the new portal for digital sources and editions (QED) inside of the foundation’s publishing platform perspectivia.net she supports researchers in their small digital editions projects: keep it simple and share your data.
Julia Roger
#Philology #Philosophy #DigitalSciences
I am a research engineer specializing in the analysis of historical and cultural sources at the Pôle document numérique of the Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines in Caen (CNRS – Université de Caen Normandie). With a background in both applied literature for publishing techniques (DESS in applied Literature for publishing techniques) and Philosophy (a PhD on Descartes, I developed an early interest in documentary engineering and the technical methods used in academic publishing. Alongside my research and engineering work, I teach in the Humanities bachelor’s program, specializing in Digital Humanities, as well as in the master’s program “Book and Publishing Professions” at the Université de Caen Normandie. I am also part of the Steering Committee of Equipex+ Biblissima+.
Chiara Senatore
DigitalPhilology #DigitalEdition #NeoLatinStudies
Chiara Senatore has recently earned her PhD in Heritage Science in January 2026 from Sapienza University of Rome. Her vision of digital scholarly editing is grounded in her current work on digital editions of Neo-Latin texts, developed in collaboration with Italian cultural institutions. She aims to broaden the audience of digital editions, making them accessible and meaningful not only for scholars but also for a wider, non-academic public.
Elena Suarez Cronauer
#DigitalHumanities #DataFeminism #NetworkScience
Elena is a researcher at the Academy for Science and Literature | Mainz (Digital Academy) and a PhD candidate at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. She envisions digital scholarly editing as a means of making historical contexts and power structures visible, highlighting whose voices are represented and whose are marginalized. She is particularly interested in the potential of digital editions to connect with Linked Open Data and thereby move beyond isolated knowledge domains toward more interconnected research environments..
Patricia Zihlmann
#EditorialPhilology #Correspondence #History1800To1850
Patricia leads the sub-project on correspondence within the “Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe” von Jeremias Gotthelf (a Swiss author in the 19th century) and was part of the team that designed gotthelf-digital.ch. Like her team colleagues she is convinced of the importance of (1) user centered design to reach a wide audience with digital editions and (2) appropriate ways of presenting the micro text genetics. Above all she is certain that only accurately encoded data are sustainable and can be evaluated innovatively in the future.
The External Contributors
Philipp Hegel
#AWLM #HKW #Text
Although I am a philologist, I somehow became something like a research software developer (at (Academy of Literature and Sciences Mainz) and because that is the case, I believe that software should be seen as an integral scientific part of digital editions.
Josef Peter Jeschke
Annika Rockenberger
#Textologist #Writer #WoodcutConnoisseur
Annika works as a senior academic librarian for digital research methods in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Oslo Library. Much time, money and scholarship are spent on creating digital scholarly editions. But do we have the means – and the will – to maintain and preserve them? My vision for Digital Scholarly Editions is a data-first approach, where emphasis is put on creating semi-structured, standardised, and rich (text) encoding and documentation that allow for easy and affordable archiving and reuse. Data first, interface second.
Michael Schonhardt
#DigitalHumanities #MachineLearning #MedievalStudies
Michael holds a joint Academy Professorship at TU Darmstadt and the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. He is working on a reasonable implementation of machine learning in digital editing beyond just using GenAI, and tries to buil frameworks and editions that work for humans and machines alike..
Martin Prell
#digitalHistory #minimalComputing #modelling
Martin Prell is digital historian and works as data scientist in the digital edition of Goethes autobiographical writings. He recently finished his PhD with a historic network analysis of the letters of Erdmuthe Benigna Reuß-Ebersdorf, a reigning Pietist countess in the early 18th century. His current research focus is on minimal computing and digital longevity towards sustainable green digital editions.
Christian Thomas
#DigitalHumanities #DigitalScholarlyEdition #ResearchDataManagement
Since Intelligent Editions are digital, the future for print is derivative, i.e. hybrid editions should follow a digital paradigm, be published digital first, and produce their online and print component from a single source. DSEs should consequently and consistently use standards, authority files/wikidata and follow established best practices, curate and manage their data always keeping their ending and mortality in mind.
Florian Zeilinger
Elias Zimmermann
#workflows #germanliterature #intermediality
I am responsible for the edition of the ‘small forms’ (Kleine Formen) in the project “Annemarie Schwarzenbach: Digitale Edition der Kleinen Formen und Briefe.Reisetexte, Intermedialität, Netzwerke” (see https://annemarie-schwarzenbach.ch/). I would like to see digital scholarly editing become a practice that is open to all textual scholars, even those with limited technical knowledge. Such an expansion of the field would promote the study and dissemination of texts that have long been marginalised in philological traditions (whether due to genre, e.g. periodicals, or discrimination, e.g. against queer people, people of colour, and women).
The Organisers
Anne Baillot
#DigitalHumanities #OpenScience #ClimateJustice
Anne has been a traveler between France and Germany in the past 25 years and has now settled for Berlin – a true European at heart, she now works for the European Research Infrastructure DARIAH. She is very passionate about access to archival material and enjoys editing as one of the most powerful tools for the dissemination of high quality information.
Julie Giovacchini
#AncientPhilosophy #DigitalHumanities #OpenScience
Julie Giovacchini is research engineer at French CNRS since 2010. Her work focuses on the history of philosophy in Antiquity. She develops open source solutions for digital editions of ancient texts. She approaches digital editions as scientific activities, aiming to align best practices with research questions.
Lambert Heller
#Librarian #OpenScience #DigitalArchives
Lambert works for academic libraries since 2004, and kicked of the Open Science Lab at TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (Hannover, Germany) in 2013. He explores futures of knowledge infrastructure and cultural memory. He facilitated the „Open Science Training Handbook“ book sprint in 2018 and several other academic handbook sprints. Currently he helps to make threatened data more resilient by means of grassroots collaboration and Bittorrenting. https://www.biblionik.org/
Mareike König
#DigitalHistory #Librarian #OpenScience
Mareike is the deputy director of the German Historical Institute in Paris and moves between historical research, library expertise, and digital practice. A strong advocate of Open Science, she leads the German branch of the academic blogging platform de.hypotheses. She is responsible for the GHI’s digital projects, including digital editions and ageing databases, where she applies FAIR-principles and principles of minimal computing to ensure long-term sustainability.
OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Mareike König (3. März 2026). Collaborating at Speed: The Team Behind the Living Handbook of Digital Scholarly Editing. Digital Humanities am DHIP. Abgerufen am 13. April 2026 von https://doi.org/10.58079/15ssm
























