Versioning Cultural Objects: Digital Approaches

Roman Bleier · Winslow Sean M.

Jan 2020 · Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik Book 13 · BoD – Books on Demand

About this ebook

This volume approaches an understanding of the term versioning in the broadest sense, discussing ideas about how versions differ across forms of media, including text, image, and sound. Versions of cultural objects are identified, defined, articulated, and analysed through diverse mechanisms in different fields of research. The study of versions allows for the investigation of the creative processes behind the conception of works, a closer inspection of their socio-political contexts, and promotes investigation of their provenance and circulation. Chapters in this volume include discussion of what a "version" means in different fields, case studies implementing digital versioning techniques, conceptual models for representing versions digitally, and computational and management issues for digital projects.

About the author

Roman Bleier is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Information-Modelling (ZIM) of the University of Graz. Following his Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, he worked at An Foras Feasa, the Digital Humanities Centre at Maynooth University, and joined the ZIM in 2016 as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellow (DiXiT).

Sean M. Winslow is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Information-Modelling (ZIM) of the University of Graz. He is a is a historian of manuscript practices, focusing on medieval Europe and Ethiopia. His current work includes the digital modelling of medieval charters, the description of Ethiopian binding decoration, and the digital cataloguing of Syriac manuscripts.