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Text Editing in a Digital Environment: Programme

9.30 Tea/Coffee
9.50 Introduction - Marilyn Deegan.
Chair of morning session - Harold Short.
10.00 'Being Critical: Paper-based editing and the digital environment', Kathryn Sutherland, University of Oxford, UK.
10.30 'Digital Editions and Text Processing', Dino Buzzetti, University of Bologna, Italy.
11.00 'A New Paradigm for Electronic Scholarly Editions', Peter Robinson, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham, UK.
11.30 'Digitizing Inscribed Texts', Charlotte Roueché, King's College, London, UK.
12.00 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
Chair of afternoon session – Kathryn Sutherland.
13.30 'Avant-textes, Intertexts, Hypertexts: Editing genetic documents', Daniel Ferrer, Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM), Paris, France.
14.00 ".... they hid their books underground", Espen S. Ore, National Library of Norway, Oslo.
14.30 Tea
15.00 'Every Reader his own Bibliographer — an absurdity?', Edward Vanhoutte, Royal Academy of Dutch Lang. and Lit. and University of Antwerp, Belgium.
15.30 'Digital Editing, Text Markup, and the Construction of Textual Reality', Julia Flanders, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
16.00 Summary by Rapporteur - Sharon Ragaz, University of Oxford, UK.
16.30 Discussion
17.00 Reception