Back to school
With school starting on August 6th, the University buildings are deserted but for those who have kids in school age like I do. You can even recognized the bikes, not only because they are parked from...
View ArticleA musical, a serious discussion, an information overload and a yiipee!
Yesterday was the day when we had our first digital edition meeting in a long time. Everyone noticed the fact that is was overdue: it lasted almost three hours. I usually try to avoid that kind of...
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Brandenburg Musings
Yesterday was a glorious September Sunday and we were off to Kunersdorf, on Chamisso’s traces. Sabine, Selma, Anna, Johanna, Janin, Maud and I took first a train to Eberswalde, then a train to Wriezen,...
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The wikipedia paper, the good questions and the aching legs
The aching legs are easy to explain. After spending 7 hours at the conference sitting on chairs that inevitably eventually do turn uncomfortable, Anna and I spent 2 hours walking through the streets of...
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Seeing the edition with new eyes
The room was full, it was dark outside, the light went down and the show began! The presentation itself really was a moment of joy for me, seeing things take shape that we had been working on so hard...
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Nikolaus, right on time
December is a good month to be a French living in Germany. First, we had a beautiful snowfall all morning, and I granted myself the pleasure of walking through Tiergarten instead of taking public...
View ArticleWish list
While the people I follow on twitter seem to be going offline one after another, I am starting to feel strangely lonely. It will be a busy vacation on my end, having to give Sabine and Christiane a...
View ArticleOur digital edition moving on without me doing a thing (almost)
Having returned from a week in a continuous snowstorm in a beautiful mountain setting where one might, in other circumstances, have been able to actually ski, I found my self in another kind of storm –...
View ArticleBoeckh Book – Back
The book August Boeckh. Philologie, Hermeneutik und Wissenschaftspolitik (under the direction of Christiane Hackel and Sabine Seifert) is now on the bookshelves (at least ours)! You can order it from...
View ArticleWorkflow intricacy
Anna is now on parental leave, but I had the amazing opportunity to have her replacement financed for one year by the German Research Foundation (that is family-friendliness!). It is Julia Doborosky...
View ArticleCeci n’est pas un projet – on scholarship and pouring meteorites
In an earlier post, I gave a summary of what I then intended to talk about in the paper I gave at the conference on Data Modeling in Digital Editions of Letters that I organized with Anna Busch last...
View ArticleWriting with two hands
When you have to finalize and deliver papers only to see them fall into a black whole for months, if not years, once they are in the hands of the editors, you should be thinking of those moments when...
View ArticleThe Day After January 7th
We all woke up with a headache on January 8th, I guess. Even my kids. They had called me in the middle of the night, saying they felt cold, way too cold. Their first question in the morning: “Were...
View ArticleAnother next step
As term has reached its end, I would like to provide for some orientation in the mind map that seems to have drawn itself over the past months to guide me ahead. First, to the good news: Sabine Seifert...
View ArticleMigration: successful!
Our edition is now hosted by the Trier Center for Digital Humanities. The corpora have landed softly, the SVN is now operational (thanks to the technical team in Trier!) – in other words: we can get...
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