Digital Scholarship Winter School

Dates & venue: 16 – 18 December 2025, co-hosted with Text Affects in Chieti, Italy

Registration link: https://forms.gle/Vujiv3Waas4xyLnL8

The school aims to equip post-graduate and doctoral students in book history and literary studies with the concepts and methods needed to address research on new sources and media technologies. The school combines lectures on core methodological issues, from theory to practical application, with critical participation in the Text Affects conference through supported active discussion and reflection on exemplary research works.

At the end of the school, students will master:

• Epistemological characteristics of physical, digitised and born-digital sources
• Main tools for data acquisition and cleaning
• Approaches for the analysis of digital reading and publishing
• Critical interpretation enabled by data technologies and AI

Day	Time	Activities
1	9:30	School opening and introductions
	10:00	Sources in research design	Epistemological differences between legacy, digitalised, native-digital and AI-generated sources
	11:30	From manuscripts to cloud	Publication, authoring and reading circuits, digital archaeology, online collaborative practices
	14:00	Conference attendance
	17:00	Discussion of presented papers with authors and tutors
2	8:30	Student breakfast	Programme of the day and questions
	9:00	Data acquisition	Crowdsourcing, web scraping, APIs, data repositories, licenses
	10:00	Conference attendance
	17:00	Discussion of presented papers with authors and tutors
3	8:30	Student breakfast	Programme of the day and questions
	9:00	Data interpretation	Natural language processing, analytics, spatial and temporal analysis, databases, linked data and documents
	10:00	Conference attendance
	15:00	Discussion of presented papers with authors and tutors
	16:00	Closing ceremony and student presentations	Brief presentation and open discussion of one topic of choice

Registration link: https://forms.gle/Vujiv3Waas4xyLnL8