[Digital Literary Annotation Newslist] Digital Literary Annotation Newsletter No. 90 (Half Year 2 2025)

Mon Jul 7 10:10:05 CEST 2025

Digital Literary Annotation Newsletter No. 90 (Half Year 2 2025)

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TEASYS – NEWS

After a temporary hiatus, the Digital Annotation Newsletter returns,  
providing an update on TEASys (Tübingen Explanatory Annotation  
System), together with a digest of news and opportunities in the field  
of digital editing and annotation. The newsletter will now be  
published in a half-yearly rhythm, at the beginning of January and  
July. Please point colleagues and students towards the newslist[1]: we  
welcome new subscribers and/or announcements for inclusion in the  
newsletter.

The project of annotating /The Knight of the Burning Pestle /by  
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, which has been shelved for some  
time, will be taken up again soon. A first step toward adding to  
extant annotations has been taken by Matthias Bauer's class on  
“Understanding Early Modern Drama – Digital Methods”.

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The Annotated Web Edition Directory[2] is looking forward to your  
suggestions. We are always on the look-out for new entries to add to  
the list. Feel free to recommend literary digital editions that  
include explanatory annotation (of the social or the editorial kind),  
web platforms, tools and applications that enable the user to  
(collaboratively) annotate texts. Please use the corresponding form on  
our webpage. We thank you for your help.

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CALLS FOR PAPERS

The call for papers for DH_BUDAPEST_2025 YOUNG RESEARCHERS, taking  
place at Eötvös Loránd University from November 19 to 21, 2025, has  
been extended to JULY 14. The conference invites MA and PhD students  
to explore the intersection of AI and the humanities. Topics include  
AI-enhanced education, AI-driven research methodologies, digital  
heritage preservation, and computational cultural studies. Papers are  
planned to be published in the /Central European Library and  
Information Science Review/. The full call can be found at the  
university website here[3].

The 2025 edition of the COMPUTATIONAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH CONFERENCE,  
taking place in Luxembourg from December 9 to 11, is accepting  
proposals of long and short papers, lightning talks, and workshops  
until JULY 18. The conference provides a venue to present  
computational work that does not lose sight of traditional modes of  
inquiry in the arts and humanities. The website here[4] includes the  
full call for papers and proceedings of previous years.

Proposals of papers, lightning talks, posters, and workshops are  
invited for the 20TH INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL CURATION CONFERENCE, taking  
place in Zagreb, Croatia, from February 16 to 18, 2026. The theme for  
the conference is “AI, Austerity, and Authoritarianism: Contemporary  
Challenges in Digital Curation”: see further here[5]. The deadline for  
proposals is JULY 11 for papers, lightning talks, and posters, and  
JULY 25 for workshops.

The DIGITAL HUMANITIES 2026 (DH2026) CONFERENCE will take place in  
Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026, under the theme  
“Engagement”. The event will be hosted by the Korean Association for  
Digital Humanities (KADH) in collaboration with Daejeon Metropolitan  
City. Check the conference website (under construction) here[6] for  
release of details including the call for proposals, keynotes, and  
special events.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

The final programme for BALISAGE: THE MARKUP CONFERENCE 2025, taking  
place virtually from AUGUST 4 TO 8, is now available here[7]. Balisage  
is an annual conference devoted to descriptive markup, how to use it  
to best effect, and what it means for technology, access to  
information, and the preservation of information for the future. A  
limited number of gratis (free) registrations are available, as well  
as a discount for early-career participants.

Registration for the TEI ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND MEMBERS’ MEETING 2025,  
taking place in Krakow, Poland, from SEPTEMBER 18 TO 20, 2025, is now  
open here[8]. The theme “New Territories” reflects the expansion of  
TEI into new geographic and conceptual domains. Topics include TEI’s  
role in extending digital humanities infrastructures; sustainability  
efforts for TEI users in regions without systematic work on data  
modelling; emerging TEI methods, practices, and interdisciplinary  
applications; and different approaches to encoding, including text,  
music, graph structures, and linked data.

Keynotes have been announced for the IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON  
CYBER HUMANITIES, taking place in Florence, Italy, from SEPTEMBER 8 TO  
10, 2025. This annual event focuses on theoretical and practical  
aspects of technologies applied to Social Science and Humanities. The  
conference explores novel concepts, technologies, solutions and  
applications along the digital continuum, including digitisation,  
curation, protection, reuse, and dissemination of Digital Cultural  
Assets. Find out more at the conference website here[9].

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WEBINARS

The next virtual EDIARUM.MEETUP takes place on JULY 14, 2025, AT 11AM.  
Contributions on the topic “Encoding Gender” include annotations in  
the Deutschen Textarchiv as a prerequisite for a gender-specific  
corpus; the potential of Wikidata for making women visible in natural  
history; and gender attribution in GND and entityXML. The meetup aims  
to promote exchange, identify problem areas, and jointly develop  
solutions. Registration is not required. More information can be found  
at the ediarum website here[10].

Registration for the DARIAH-EU FRIDAY FRONTIERS AUTUMN SERIES 2025 is  
now open here[11]. The Friday Frontiers webinars allow researchers,  
practitioners and stakeholders from across the DARIAH community and  
beyond to learn about current research, best practice and social  
impact, and different tools and methods in digital humanities  
scholarly practice. The webinar sessions are free to attend, but  
registration is required. Presentations are recorded and published at  
a later date on DARIAH-Campus[12].

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SUMMER SCHOOLS

 From SEPTEMBER 2 TO 3, 2025, Zentralbibliothek Zürich will be holding  
a FREE TWO-DAY SUMMER SCHOOL: “DIGITALE AUFBEREITUNG HISTORISCHER  
QUELLEN MITTELS CHATGPT”. The event is aimed at historians and  
humanities scholars who are interested in using language models like  
ChatGPT to process their sources. They will learn how to formulate  
prompts so that the models produce the most reliable results possible,  
also how to process many documents using the API. The focus of the  
second day is on checking the results using machine and manual  
verification methods. Applications are open until JULY 20. More  
information can be found at the library website here[13].

The University of Würzburg, together with the “Zeitungen &  
Zeitschriften” working group of the DHd, is organising a TWO-DAY  
SUMMER SCHOOL “DIGITALE METHODEN DER ZEITUNGSANALYSE, 2. AUFLAGE”  
(SEPTEMBER 4–5, 2025) aimed at researchers, students, archive/library  
staff, and anyone interested in combining (historical) periodicals and  
digital methods. The detailed programme and registration link  
(deadline JULY 20) can be found here[14].

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JOBS AND FUNDING

The BAYERISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN (BADW) is seeking TWO PRE-  
OR POSTDOC RESEARCH ASSISTANTS (13 TV-L, PART TIME [65%], INITIALLY  
LIMITED TO TWO YEARS) to work on dialectological issues in the  
projects “Fränkisches Wörterbuch” and “Dialektologisches  
Informationssystem von Bayerisch-Schwaben” as soon as possible.  
Applicants must have a completed university degree in linguistics  
(Master) or relevant state examination. Practical experience with at  
least one scripting language (Python, PHP, Javascript) is an  
advantage. The deadline for applications is JULY 13, 2025. See the  
full job posting at the BAdW website here[15].

A POSTDOC POSITION in early medieval manuscript studies and Germanic  
philology (13 TV-L, FULL TIME, LIMITED UNTIL OCTOBER 31, 2028) is now  
available at the UNIVERSITY OF GöTTINGEN. The position is part of the  
ERC project INSULAR; the holder will be responsible for contextual  
analysis of INSULAR manuscripts with glosses and stylus glosses in a  
historical Germanic language such as Old High German, Old Saxon, Old  
Frisian or Old English. This will involve use of and contribution to  
existing LOD datasets, IIIF images, and established AI transcription  
software, as well as collaboration on the development of an RDF  
database. The deadline for applications is JULY 14, 2025. The full job  
posting is at the university website here[16].

The INTERNATIONAL MOZARTEUM FOUNDATION is seeking a WEB DEVELOPER  
(30–35 hours/week, permanent) and DIGITAL HUMANITIES EXPERT (20–30  
hours/week, permanent)  to work on the /Digital Interactive Mozart  
Edition/ (DME), making Mozart’s music, letters, libretti, and more  
freely available to researchers and the public worldwide.  
Responsibilities and person specifications are job specific. See the  
full postings at the foundation website here[17].

Researchers in the historical humanities planning to test innovative  
methods for handling (digital) historical research data may wish to  
apply for funding from the 4MEMORY INCUBATOR FUNDS (deadline AUGUST 1,  
2025). Individual projects can apply for funding of up to €65,000 for  
the calendar year 2026. Further details on the application and  
selection process can be found in the call for proposals here[18].

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Scholars involved in or looking to begin a digital editorial project  
may be interested in the essays in the edited volume /Futures of  
Digital Scholarly Editing/, edited by Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price,  
and Catherina Bernardini, published by the University of Minnesota  
Press earlier this year (see the webpage here[19]). Digital humanities  
practitioners and scholars work with a wide range of archival  
materials to confront key challenges surrounding the adaptation and  
sustainability of digital editorial projects as well as their societal  
impact.

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Links:
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[1] http://www.annotation.es.uni-tuebingen.de/?page_id=211
[2] http://www.annotation.es.uni-tuebingen.de/?page_id=215
[3]  
https://dh.elte.hu/en/content/dh-budapest-2025-young-researchers-call-for-papers.t.46168
[4] https://2025.computational-humanities-research.org/
[5] https://dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc26/conference-theme
[6] https://dh2026.adho.org/
[7] https://balisage.net/index.html
[8] https://tei2025.confer.uj.edu.pl/
[9] https://www.ieee-ch.org/#committee
[10] https://www.ediarum.org/meetups.html
[11]  
https://www.dariah.eu/2025/06/13/registration-for-friday-frontiers-autumn-series-2025-now-open/
[12] https://campus.dariah.eu/
[13]  
https://www.zb.uzh.ch/de/events/summer-school-digitalen-aufbereitung-historischer-quellen-mittels-chatgpt
[14]  
https://dhd-ag-zz.github.io/workshops/summer-school-digitale-methoden-der-zeitungsanalyse-2.html
[15]  
https://stelle.pro/jobposting/7626e7dcf1ddc8031a2b7c312f10273107acb4930?ref=homepage
[16]  
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.html?filters=%7b%22vollzeit%22:%5b%5d,%22befristet%22:%5b%5d,%22gruppe%22:%5b%5d,%22besoldGrp%22:%5b%5d%7d&details=75964
[17] https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/about-us/#600
[18] https://4memory.de/aktivitaeten/incubator-funds/
[19]  
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916688/futures-of-digital-scholarly-editing/
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