[DiXiT] Fwd: CfP Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces - Graz University

[Frederike Neuber]

Dear Dixit-community,

I am pleased to forward you the call for papers for a two-days symposium
(September 23-24, 2016) on Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces at the
University of Graz. The event is organized by the Centre for Information
Modelling in cooperation with the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial
Training Network DiXiT. Deadline for submissions is April 17th.

Call for papers:
Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces

International symposium, 23.-24.9.2016, Graz (Austria)

Scholarly editions intermediate between the texts and their readers, which
does not change with their transfer to digital media. Over the past two
decades, research on digital scholarly editions (DSE) was deeply engaged
with the impacts of the digital medium on the critical representation of
texts and the changing conditions for the editor. However, less research
has been done on the roles of the readers, or - as they are called in the
digital environment - the users. A critical examination of the topic has
already been demanded by Jerome McGann in 2001, it was repeated by Hans
Walter Gabler in 2010, and was taken up more recently by Patrick Sahle
(2013) and Elena Pierazzo (2015). User studies are rare, and systematic
considerations of principles of Human Computer Interaction are still
marginal in theory and practice of DSE. In addition, the conceptualization
of the DSEs as interfaces between machines could be intensified. However,
the discourse on DSEs benefits from considering paradigms of interface
design, from reflecting on the cultural and historical context of the
visual appearance of scholarly editions and their affordances, as well as
from examining the interactions between user and resource.
The symposium will discuss the relationship between digital scholarly
editing and interfaces by bringing together experts of DSEs and Interface
Design, editors and users of editions, web designers and developers. It
will include the discussion of (graphical/user) interfaces of DSEs as much
as conceptualizing the digital edition itself as an interface. In this
context, we are interested in contributions to the following questions and
beyond:

   - How can DSEs take full advantage of their digital environment without
   losing the traditional affordances that makes an edition ‘scholarly’? What
   is the role of skeuomorphic tropes and metaphors like footnotes, page turn
   and index in the design of DSEs and concerning the user interaction?
   - Do interfaces of DSEs succeed in transferring the complexity of the
   underlying data models?
   - Plurality in representation is a core feature of DSE. How do
   interfaces realize this plurality? Do we need different interfaces for
   different target audiences (i.e. scholars, digital humanists, students,
   public)?
   - How can user interfaces of DSEs succeed in transmitting Human Computer
   Interaction design principles like ‘aesthetics’, ‘trust’, and
   ‘satisfaction’?
   - Citability and reliability are core requirements of scholarly work.
   Which user interface elements support them? How can we encourage the user
   to critically engage with the DSE?
   - What are the users of a DSE actually doing: are they reading the text
   or searching and analyzing the data?
   - Can we conceptualize machines as users? How can we include application
   programming interfaces (APIs) in the discussion on DSEs as interfaces?
   - Does the development of user interfaces for DSEs keep up with the
   rising distribution of small handheld devices? Will interfaces on tablets
   greatly differ from those on computer screens and perhaps encourage a
   larger readership?


Please submit your proposal for a talk at the symposium until April 17,
2016 to dixit at uni-graz.at. The proposal should not exceed 700 words.
There are funds to reimburse travel and accommodation costs. Please
indicate with your submission if you need financial support.

For further information see:
http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at/de/aktuelles/digital-scholarly-editions-as-interfaces/


Best,

Frederike


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Frederike Neuber

DiXiT - Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network


Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung

Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities

Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

A-8010 Graz | Elisabethstr.59

eMail: frederike.neuber at uni-graz.at

tel.: +43 (0)316 380 - 5772

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